Vocabulary Flashcards
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Gene therapy
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Treatment of a genetic disorder by altering a persons genotype
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Genetic diversity
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All the alleles of all the genes in the genome of a species
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Genetic profiling/fingerprinting
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Sequencing a length of DNA from an organism, to compare with the sequence of the same DNA from other organisms
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Genetic screening
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Testing an embryo, fetus or adult to find out whether a particular allele is present
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Gene technology
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A procedure by which one or more selected genes are removed from one organism and inserted into another, which is then said to be transgenic
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Variable number tandem repeats VNTRs
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A length of DNA that contains different numbers of repeated base sequels in different individuals in a species
