artificial gene

noun

Genetics.

1. a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.

Word History and Origins

Origin of artificial gene¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

“Dr. Riggs had the idea of combining the small somatostatin gene with a larger protein to give it more stability. That was a critical development. Without it, the artificial gene would not have been of much use.”

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Like other scientists who studied the virus, the Australian team did not find easily recognizable artificial gene inserts that would signal virus engineering.

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For his 1999 work “Genesis,” he created a so-called “artist’s gene” by writing a sentence from the Book of Genesis first in the dots and dashes of Morse code and then in the four-letter alphabet of DNA, creating an artificial gene that was subsequently incorporated into bacteria.

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Those include “artificial gene synthesis,” in which DNA is created on computers and inserted into organisms, and other methods for changing DNA sequences and genes within organisms to alter their function.

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In 1972, Dr. Khorana reported a second breakthrough: the construction of the first artificial gene, using off-the-shelf chemicals.

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