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allele-specific oligonucleotideAn anti-sense oligonucleotide is a short piece of synthetic DNA complementary to the sequence of a variable target DNA.
expressed sequence tagIn genetics, an expressed sequence tag is a short sub-sequence of a cDNA sequence.
polylinkernoun(genetics) A short sequence of DNA containing several restriction enzyme recognition sites that is contained in cloning vectors
retrotransposonnoun(genetics) A transposable fragment of a genome that can undergo retrotransposition.
transposable elementnounSynonym of transposon.
transposonnoun(genetics) A segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to the genome of another species.
transposasenoun(biochemistry) An enzyme required for the transposition of transposons
terminatornoun(science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans.
cloning vectorA cloning vector is a small piece of DNA that can be stably maintained in an organism, and into which a foreign DNA fragment can be inserted for cloning purposes.
single-nucleotide polymorphismIn genetics and bioinformatics, a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP ; plural SNPs ) is a germline substitution of a single nucleotide at a specific position in the genome.
dna vaccineA DNA vaccine is a type of vaccine that transfects a specific antigen-coding DNA sequence into the cells of an organism as a mechanism to induce an immune response.
gene cassettenounA DNA sequence which can exist by itself in circular form, or can be integrated into an integron.
genenoun(molecular biology) A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, such as (often) the structure of a protein.
retroposonnoun(genetics) A fragment of DNA inserted into a chromosome following reverse transcription from RNA.
template strandnoun(genetics) The noncoding strand of a DNA molecule that is used as a template for RNA synthesis
dna barcodinga method of species identification using a short section of DNA from a specific gene or genes.
secis elementIn biology, the (SECIS: selenocysteine insertion sequence) an RNA element around 60 nucleotides in length that adopts a stem-loop structure.
stem-loopnoun(genetics) A short length of intramolecularly bonded single-stranded DNA or RNA
dna virusnoun(virology) Any of a group of viruses whose nucleic acid is composed of DNA.
coding regionThe coding region of a gene, also known as the coding DNA sequence, is the portion of a gene's DNA or RNA that codes for a protein.

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