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.

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Vector

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

1. An organism, usually an insect, that carries and transmits disease-causing organisms. 2. A plasmid or phage that is used to deliver selected foreign DNA for cloning and in gene transfer.

Dimethyl sulphoxide; dimethyl sulfoxide

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

(C 2 H 6 OS) A highly hygroscopic liquid and powerful solvent with little odour or colour. It is an organic co-solvent used in small quantities to dissolve neutral organic substances in tissue ...

Endosperm

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Nutritive tissue that develops in the embryo sac of most angiosperms. It usually forms after the fertilisation of the two fused primary endosperm nuclei of the embryo sac with one of the two male ...

Mitosis

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Disjunction of replicated chromosomes and division of the cytoplasm to produce two genetically identical daughter cells. The division involves the appearance of chromosomes, their longitudinal ...

Ascorbic acid

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

(C 6 H 8 O 6 ; f.w. 176.12) A water-soluble vitamin present naturally in some plants, and also synthetically produced. Aside from its role as a vitamin, it is used as an antioxidant in plant tissue ...

Autonomous

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

A term applied to any biological unit that can function on its own, i.e., without the help of another unit, such as a transposable element that encodes an enzyme for its own transposition.

Rachis

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Main axis of a spike; axis of fern leaf (frond) from which pinnae arise; in compound leaves, the extension of the petiole corresponding to the midrib of an entire leaf.