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What are the significances of transposons?

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(i) They contribute to many visible mutations and mutation rate in an organism.
(ii) In evolution, they contribute to genetic diversity.
(iii) In genetic research transposons are valuable tools which are used as mutagens, as cloning tags, vehicles for inserting foreign DNA into model organism.
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