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Biotechnology
Term | Definition |
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bio | life or living. |
improvement by selection | picking the best plants or animals for producing the next generation. |
selective breeding | selection of parents to get the desirable characteristics |
genetics | biology of heredity |
heredity | transmission of characteristics from an organism to its offspring through genes in reproductive cells |
genes | components of cells wich determine the individual characteristics of living things |
generation | refers to the offspring or common parents |
progency | common parents |
deoxyribonucleicacid | DNA |
clone | an exact duplicate of something |
genetic engineering | refers to the movement of genetic information in the form of genes from one cell to another |
nucleic acid | large biological molecules |
bases | pairs of strands interwined with eachother and connected by chemicals |
adenine guanine cytosine thymine | a,g,c,t have become known as the genetic alphabet of the language of life |
mapping | identifying the location of a specific gene on a chromosome is mapping |