Transgene

Synonyms for "transgene" (5 found)

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Closest matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
designer gene

Strong matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
engineered geneexogenous gene

Related words (2)

Noun(2 words)
foreign geneintroduced gene

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

4 entries
cistronfactorgenegenetic element

More specific

4 entries
marker genepest resistance genereporter genetherapeutic transgene

Collocations

6 entries
transgene cassettetransgene constructtransgene copy numbertransgene expressiontransgene insertiontransgene integration

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It has created a biotechnology centred on genetic engineering that has introduced transgenes, transmitted through natural interspecies crosses, which, in turn, have allowed emergence of resistant superweeds and superpests, which, in their turn, demand the application of further chemical poisons […]

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