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| sctions of DNA which are unique to the person or organism they came from |
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| the DNA technology in which a gene is isolated, then copied exaclty many times over. |
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| a treatment where a person born with a defective gene is given the proper gene through recombinant therapy |
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| an enzyme which is able to base-pair segments of DNA |
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| natually occuring (and now man-made too) segments of DNA that are taken up by bacteria and remain in bacteria indefinitely |
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polymerase chain reaction
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| a method of amplifying a small sample of DNA |
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| short segments of DNA that will stick to specific areas of of single-stranded DNA |
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| a DNA molecule that is made up of DNA derived from two or more organisms |
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| a plasmid made from two or more sources of DNA (one of the sources being the initial plasmid DNA) |
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| enzymes normally found in bacteria which cut foriegn DNA entering the cell |
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restiction fragent length polymerase
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| a process to cut large pieces of DNA into smaller pieces for DNA fingerprinting |
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| DNA segments obtained through RFLP |
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| an enzyme which synthesizes DNA from an mRNA template |
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| a process by which organisms containing a particular trait or traits are bred with one another across may generations to refine the desired trait. the oldest form of genetic engineering |
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| the double-stranded end of a cut DNA with a short length of single-strand material hanging off of it |
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| the process of changing a trait in an organism as a result of the introduction of recombinant DNA into that organism |
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| an organism that has DNA in it from another species |
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| a particle which contains DNA ot RNA, but is not a living organism |
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