A synthetic type of this called Sleeping Beauty can be used for DNA modification in vertebrates.
One of these things mediates the "tagmentation" reaction used to prepare samples for Illumina sequencing. In 2001, Kapitonov and Jurka became the first ones to report a "rolling-circle" type of this entity called "helitron" in Arabidopsis thaliana. Inverse PCR after self-ligation is commonly used to locate these things after a commonly-used mutagenesis procedure in Drosophila; in that screen, a type of these known as (*) P elements is used. A synthetic type of this called Sleeping Beauty can be used for DNA modification in vertebrates. One type of this entity can be classified depending on whether it possesses the ability to encode for a reverse transcriptase; that is their "retro" type.. One type of these contains inverted repeat sequences at its two ends for recombinase recognition used in its "cut-and-paste" mechanism. For 10 points, name these jumping genes.
One of these things mediates the "tagmentation" reaction used to prepare samples for Illumina sequencing.
transposons [accept transposase; prompt on jumping genes]