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5.3 vocabulary
5.3 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Selective Breeding | selecting organisms with desired traits to be parents of the next generation. |
Inbreeding | crossing two individuals that have similar characteristics. |
Hybridization | breeders cross two genetically different individuals. |
Clone | an organism that has exactly the same genes as the organism for which it was produced. |
Genetic Engineering | genes from one organism are transferred into the DNA of organism. |
Gene Therapy | involve interesting copies of a gene directly into a person's cells. |
Genome | all the DNA in one cell of an organism. |