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Clones
Clones A clone is an organism or cell derived asexually (through mitosis) from a single ancestor cell. The genetic content of the newer cell (or of any individual cell of the organism) is identical to that of the ancestor cell. In biochemistry a clone is a replica of all ... Read more |
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clone
clone group of organisms, all of which are descended from a single individual through asexual reproduction, as in a pure cell culture of bacteria. Except for changes in the hereditary material that come about by mutation , all members of a clone are genetically identical. Laboratory experiments in... Read more |
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cloning
cloning is the generation of genetically identical organisms: each group of such organisms is a clone. Ever since Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, cloning and clones have been the subject both of science fiction and of serious public concern over their possible biotechnological applications.... Read more |
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ligase
ligase Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the formation of covalent bonds using the energy released by the cleavage of ATP. Ligases are important in the synthesis and repair of many biological molecules, including DNA (see DNA ligase), and are used in genetic engineering to insert foreign DNA... Read more |
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Yeast Artificial Chromosome (YAC)
Yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) The yeast artificial chromosome, which is often shortened to YAC, is an artificially constructed system that can undergo replication. The design of a YAC allows extremely large segments of genetic material to be inserted. Subsequent rounds of replication produce... Read more |
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Shotgun Cloning
Shotgun cloning The shotgun method (also known as shotgun cloning) is a method in cloning genomic DNA . It involves taking the DNA to be cloned and cutting it either using a restriction enzyme or randomly using a physical method to smash the DNA into small pieces. These fragments are then taken... Read more |
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restriction enzyme
restriction enzyme (restriction endonuclease) A type of enzyme that can cleave molecules of foreign DNA at a particular site. Restriction enzymes are produced by many bacteria and protect the cell by cleaving (and therefore destroying) the DNA of invading viruses. The bacterial cell is protected... Read more |
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DNA cloning
DNA Synthesis Background Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis is a process by which copies of nucleic acid strands are made. In nature, DNA synthesis takes place in cells by a mechanism known as DNA replication. Using genetic engineering and enzyme chemistry, scientists... Read more |
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biotechnology
biotechnology the use of biological processes, as through the exploitation and manipulation of living organisms or biological systems, in the development or manufacture of a product or in the technological solution to a problem. As such, biotechnology is a general category that has applications in... Read more |
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dwarfism
dwarfism condition in which an animal or plant is less than normal in size and lacks the capacity for normal growth. Dwarfism is deliberately produced and perpetuated in certain species (e.g., in breeding miniature dogs and cultivating dwarf plants). Among humans, dwarfism usually results from a... Read more |
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Beyond Cloning/ New science gives parents some control over children's genes
...Adam offers a very real glimpse into the future of human reproduction...give Adam specific traits. "Cloning is a red herring," says Princeton...science's knowledge of human genetics is also exploding. The combination...geneticist at the Reproductive Genetics ... |
 "T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education)")
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Software focus on video and DVD.(News Briefs)
...complex world of genetics and cloning. The Human Genome...science behind cloning, as well as possible...applications of animal cloning. Moving from the...they can get a glimpse of life as it was...s Trinity and Beyond: The ... |
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Future perfect?
...it is only a glimpse at the way we...Years: Human cloning. This is probably...that we face with genetics today. Is the cloning of a human being...By this time cloning will be a major...because it will be beyond our ... |
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Readers' Visions.
...asked our contestants to offer a glimpse of the future through a scientist...between humans and computers, cloning and genetics, ecology and the possibility of...enhance our strengths and move beyond our deficiencies. Unlike our normal... |
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Outlook 2006: recent forecasts from the World Future Society for 2006 and...
...the future will be like, but rather as glimpses of what may happen or proposals for what...intergenerational communes, and therapeutic cloning for kidneys, livers, and other replacement...2004, p. 44 * Males may be doomed by genetics. The human Y chromosome--that which... |
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The DNA Files Confronts Controversies in Genetic Science
...stem cell research, cloning, infectious diseases...org. "Discoveries in genetics are influencing the way...far, searches for life beyond Earth have yielded only...from earth? -- THE GENETICS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE...research that gives us a ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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THE FRONTIER WITHIN US
...donors with high SAT scores. Glimpses of a boldly bioengineered future...eye, intone a new mantra: "Genetics." Madison Avenue holds America...community stands solidly against cloning human beings, and no federal...fearing that researchers might go beyond ... |
 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Making the bunny glow: Is this genetically altered rabbit art or not?
...down the slippery slope toward cloning Josef Stalin. But in using...on traits in humans is still beyond the pale. A report released...result, researchers have caught glimpses of real-time changes within...a researcher in molecular genetics and cell biology ... |
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