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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discordant

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Members of a pair showing different, rather than similar, characteristics.

complementary nucleotides

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Members of the pairs adenine-thymine, adenine-uracil, and guanine-cytosine that have the ability to hydrogen bond to one another.

primary meristem

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Meristem of the shoot or root tip giving rise to the primary plant body.

secondary plant products

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Metabolic products not having a known functional or structural use in plant cells. They have been extracted from plant tissue cultures for pharmaceutical and food processing purposes (e.g., essential ...

drug delivery

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Method by which a therapeutic agent is delivered to its site of action. For traditional therapeutic agents this is another name for formulation . However, biotechnology has allowed the development ...

floccule

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

Micro-organism aggregate or colloidal particle floating in or on a liquid. Contaminated liquid media are usually cloudy, illustrating this flocculation phenomenon.