Chapter 13.2, Problem 3MI

Summary Introduction

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The blanks with suitable definition.

Introduction:

Biotechnology is innovation that uses natural frameworks, living beings or parts of this to create or make various products.

Explanation of Solution

Genetic engineering is the method of manipulating DNA from one organism and inserting the DNA fragment into a host organism of the same or different species.

Genome is the total DNA present in the nucleus of each cell.

Restriction enzyme is bacterial enzyme that can cut foreign DNA at a specific nucleotide sequence.

Gel electrophoresis is a method of separating DNA fragments by size with the use of an electric current.

Recombinant DNA made by recombining fragments of DNA from different sources.

Plasmid is a small, circular, double-stranded DNA found in bacterial cells and used as a vector.

DNA ligase is an enzyme that is used to join DNA fragments; used by the cell for DNA repair and replication.

Transformation is a method for getting plasmid DNA into bacterial cells.

Cloning is the process of creating a genetically identical copy of an organism or gene.

Polymerase Chain Reaction is a technique for making millions of copies of a specific region of DNA.

Transgenic organism is that organism that contains functional recombinant DNA from a different organism.