Letter C

Cassette

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A pre-existing structure into which an insert can be moved.

In molecular biology, a gene conversion process in which the old gene is replaced with a copy of a silent gene and the new copy becomes active.

As the process involves replacing one ready made construct with another in an active slot, it is termed a cassette mechanism

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