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  • 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
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