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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Additive gene effects

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Additive allelic effects summed across all the loci that contribute to genetic variation in a quantitative trait.

Parenchymatous

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Adjective used to describe spherical and undifferentiated cells with primary cell walls, capable of both cell division and differentiation.

Co-dominant alleles

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Alleles that produce independent effects when in the heterozygous condition.

Ambient temperature

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Air temperature at a given time and place; not radiant temperature.

A

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Adenine residue, in either DNA or RNA.

Marker

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

An identifiable DNA sequence that facilitates the study of inheritance of a trait or a gene. Such markers are used in mapping the order of genes along chromosomes and in following the inheritance of ...

B lymphocytes

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

An important class of lymphocytes that mature in bone marrow (in mammals) and the Bursa of Fabricius (in birds), that are largely responsible for the antibody-mediated or humoral immune response; ...