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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Genetic engineering

Morphogen

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

A substance that stimulates the development of form or structure in an organism.

Carcinogen

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

A substance capable of inducing cancer in an organism.

Sympodial

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

A type of plant development in which the terminal bud of the stem stops growing due to either its abortion or its development into a flower or an inflorescence, and the uppermost lateral bud takes ...

Aerobic respiration

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

A type of respiration in which foodstuffs are completely oxidised to carbon dioxide and water, with the release of chemical energy, in a process requiring atmospheric oxygen.

Anti-terminator

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

A type of protein which enables RNA polymerase to ignore certain transcriptional stop or termination signals and read through them to produce longer mRNA transcripts.

Lysogenic

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

A type or phase of the virus life cycle during which the virus integrates into the host chromosome of the infected cell, remaining essentially dormant for some period of time.