Different types of transposable elements

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Different types of transposable elements

Five different types of transposable elements including insertion sequences, composite transposons, replicative transposons, viral-like retroelements, and nonviral-like retroelements. Which of these five types of TEs would have the following features?

a. Require reverse transcriptase to transpose
b. Require transposase to transpose
c. Are flanked by direct repeats
d. Have inverted repeats.

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