DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RETROTRANSPOSONS AND DNA TRANSPOSONS:
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Transposons are small mobile DNA segments can change positions in the genome (in the same cell) and also able to replicate independently itself.
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Whereas the transposons which are first transcribed into a copy of RNA that is then reversely transcribe DNA. Those are known as “retrotransposons”.
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Transposons simply cut and paste its DNA segment during transposition whereas retrotransposons produce RNA intermediate.
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The enzyme requires for transposons is “transposase” whereas for retrotransposons is “reverse transcriptase”.
