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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A transposable element (TE) is a DNA sequence that can change its position within the genome, sometimes creating mutations and altering the cell`s genome size. Transposition often results in duplication of the TE. Barbara McClintock`s discovery of these jumping genes early in her career earned her a Nobel prize in 1983.