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gene transfer

noun

Biotechnology. the insertion of copies of a gene into living cells in order to induce synthesis of the gene's product: the desired gene may be microinjected directly into the cell or it may be inserted into the core of a virus by gene splicing and the virus allowed to infect the cell for replication of the gene in the cell's DNA.

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Nearby words

  1. gene mapping,
  2. gene patent,
  3. gene pool,
  4. gene splicing,
  5. gene therapy,
  6. gene-splicing,
  7. geneal.,
  8. genealogical,
  9. genealogical tree,
  10. genealogist
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