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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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Genetic engineering
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 ...
Vascular cambium
Biotechnology; Genetic engineering
In Biennial and perennial plants, causing secondary cambium phloem and xylem is one of the secondary.