Imagine that your DNA is like a giant instruction manual for how your body works. But some parts of this manual are a bit… unpredictable, or at least we don’t how they work yet. There are sections of DNA called "jumping genes," or retrotransposons ( I know hard to pronounce!), which randomly copy themselves and move around in your genome. Thi…
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