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

phagocytosis

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

The process by which minute food particles or foreign particles invading the body are engulfed and broken down by certain animal cells.

self-fertilization

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

The process by which pollen of a given plant fertilizes the ovules of the same plant. Plants fertilized in this way are said to have been selfed. An analogous process occurs in some animals, such as ...

feedback inhibition

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

The process by which the accumulated end product of a biochemical pathway stops synthesis of that product. A late metabolite of a synthetic pathway regulates synthesis at an earlier step of the ...

evolution

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

The process by which the present diversity of plant and animal life arose from the earliest organisms, a process believed to have been continuing for at least 3 000 million years.

class switching

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

The process during which a plasma cell stops producing antibodies of one class and begins producing antibodies of another class.

de-repression

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

The process of "turning on" the expression of a gene or set of genes whose expression has been repressed (turned off). Displacement of a repressor protein from a promoter region of DNA. When attached ...

complementary homopolymeric tailing

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

The process of adding complementary nucleotide extensions to different DNA molecules, e.g., dG (deoxyguanosine) to the 3´-hydroxyl ends of one DNA molecule and dC (deoxycytidine) to the 3´-hydroxyl ...