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Genetics and Biotechnology 135DNA
Genetics and Biotechnology
Section 13.2 DNA TechnologyScan Section 2 of the chapter. Write two questions that come to
mind from reading the headings and illustration captions.1.2.Use your book or dictionar y to define DNA.Use your book or dictionar y to define each term.method of manipulating DNA from one organism and inserting the
DNA fragment into a host organism of the same or different speciesthe total DNA present in the nucleus of each cellbacterial enzyme that can cut foreign DNA at a specific nucleotide
sequencea method of separating DNA fragments by size with the use of an
electric currentDNA made by recombining fragments of DNA from different sourcessmall, circular, double-stranded DNA found in bacterial cells and
used as a vectoran enzyme that is used to join DNA fragments; used by the cell for
DNA repair and replicationa method for getting plasmid DNA into bacterial cellsthe process of creating a genetically identical copy of an organism
or genea technique for making millions of copies of a specific region of DNAorganism that contains functional recombinant DNA from a
different organismNew
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