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Who owns transgenic organisms?

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Bioinformatics is a discipline involved in the development of hardware and software for processing,storing,and retrieving nucleotide and protein data.

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Genetics is the study of ________.

Recombinant DNA technology is dependent on a particular class of enzymes,known as ________,that cuts DNA at specific nucleotide sequences.

What is a mutation?

Given that DNA is the genetic material in prokaryotes and eukaryotes,what other general structures (macromolecules)and substances made by the cell are associated with the expression of that genetic material?

What is the name of the company or institution that has access to the health,genealogical,and genetic information of approximately 270,000 residents of Iceland?

Which theory postulates that an organism is derived from materials originally present in the egg that eventually differentiate into adult structures during development?

The genetic material DNA consists of basic subunits called ________.

What is meant by the phrase the central dogma of molecular genetics?

Name the substance that serves as the hereditary material in eukaryotes and prokaryotes.

What is meant by the term genome?

By 2003,the completed sequencing of the gene-containing portion of the human genome was published by two groups: the publicly funded ________ and a private company.

Alternative forms of a gene are called ________.

What term is used to describe the fact that different genes in an organism often provide differences in observable features?

Name the individual who,while working with the garden pea in the mid-1850s,demonstrated quantitative patterns of heredity and developed a theory involving the behavior of hereditary factors.

Name one of the botanists who,in 1900,rediscovered the work of Gregor Mendel.

What term refers to the similarity between parents and offspring,and what term refers to the lack of similarity between parents and offspring?

What is meant by complementation in terms of the structure of DNA?

Arabidopsis is a model organism for the study of ________.