Direct repeats are a type of genetic sequence that consists of two or more repeats of a specific sequence.[1] ...
Direct repeats
Two identical (or nearly identical) nucleotide sequences sometimes separated by a sequence of non-repeated DNA. For example, 3' TAGT . . . TAGT 5'
5' ATCA . . . ATCA 3' ...
Like DNA transposons, retrotransposons generate direct repeats at their new sites of insertion. In fact, it is the presence of these direct repeats that often is the clue that the intervening stretch of DNA arrived there by retrotransposition.
 See also: Trans, RNA, Organ, DNA, Bacteria
  
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