Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
Identification number: 115
Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
Author/s: Ana MUÑOZ GASCÓN, Bianca CONSTANTINESCU, Isaac MORENO RUIZ, María Eugenia HERRERAS
Creation / modification date: 01-02-2014
Term: vector
Gramatical category: s
Definition: DNA molecule that carries foreign DNA into a host cell, replicates inside a bacterial (or yeast) cell and produces many copies of itself and the foreign DNA.
Context: Plasmids have proven extremely useful as cloning vectors, particularly when they are modified specifically for that purpose.
Weighting mark: nor
Sources:
Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
Definition: McCLEAN, P. Cloning and molecular analysis of genes http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~mcclean/plsc431/cloning/clone3.htm
Context: SOFER, H. Introduction to Genetic Engineering, Butterworth/Heinemann, 1991 http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C08/C08Links/mbclserver.rutgers.edu/~sofer/cloningvectors.html