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MGE

MGE is the initialism of mobile genetic element.

MGE is the initialism of mesogastric excision.

Meaning of mobile genetic element

Noun

mobile genetic element (plural mobile genetic elements)

  1. A kind of genetic material, found in all organisms, that can move around within a genome, or be transferred from one species or replicon to another.
    Synonyms:
    MGE

Forms of MGE

pluralMGEs

Questions about MGE

What is MGE the initialism of?
MGE is the initialism of mobile genetic element.

Words near MGE in the dictionary

  1. MGCC
  2. MGCQ
  3. MGCs
  4. MGD
  5. MGDA
  6. MGE
  7. MGEs
  8. mgf
  9. mgfs
  10. MGIB
  11. MGIF

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Adapted from Wiktionary: MGE (page history and authors); mobile genetic element (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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