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Biotechnology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |