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.