According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
TRANSPOSON
transposon, jumping gene
(noun) a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
transposon (plural transposons)
(genetics) A segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome.
Synonyms
• jumping gene
Source: Wiktionary
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OBLIGATE
(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”
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