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| method of breeding that allows only individual organisms with desired characteristics to produce the next generation | ||
| crossing dissimilar individuals to bring together the best of both organisms | ||
| continued breeding of individuals with similar characteristics to maintain the desired characteristics of a line of organisms | ||
| process that involves genes or pieces of DNA being taken from one organism and transferred to another | ||
| the scissors-enzyme that cuts DNA at a specific sequence of nucleotides | ||
| mixture of DNA fragments is placed at one end of a porous gel, and an electric voltage is applied to the gel (separating DNA) | ||
| pieces of DNA from 2 or more sources that are combined | ||
| technique that allows molecular biologists to make many copies of a particular gene | ||
| small circular piece of DNA | ||
| a gene that makes it possible to distinguish bacteria that carry the plasmid (and the foriegn DNA) from those that don't | ||
| term used to refer to an organism that contains genes from other organisms | ||
| member of population of genetically identical cells produced from a single cell |
