Genetic engineering

Genetic engineering

The science of modifying and manipulating genes to create new artificial DNA or synthetic genes of different organisms. There are many purposes for genetic engineering, some of which include finding better treatment for diseases, or simply for discovering new organism of interest.

Industry: Agriculture; Biotechnology

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Enzyme Commission (EC) Number

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Systematic name and number which identify an enzyme in technical literature. Assigned by the Enzyme Commission, the EC Number consists of four numbers separated by dots: the first classifies the ...

Enzyme Commission (EC) Number

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Systematic name and number which identify an enzyme in technical literature. Assigned by the Enzyme Commission, the EC Number consists of four numbers separated by dots: the first classifies the ...

shoot tip

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

The terminal bud (0.1 - 1.0 mm) of a plant, which consists of the apical meristem (0.05 - 0.1 mm) and the immediate surrounding leaf primordia and developing leaves and adjacent stem tissue.

nucleoside analogue

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

A synthetic molecule that resembles a naturally occurring nucleoside, but that lacks the bond site needed to link it to an adjacent nucleotide.

Incompatibility

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

1. selectively-restricted authority, the lack of restrictive fertilization, such functions are by normal pollen grains or some pistils, this condition may be caused by a variety of mating factors. 2. ...

suppressor

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Mutations in suppressor genes are able to overcome (suppress) the effects of mutations in other, unlinked, genes. A common, and very useful, kind of suppressor mutation occurs within the gene ...