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| The procedure by which amniotic fluid surrounding a growing fetus is collected. This fluid often contains cells from the fetus, allowing analysis of the fetus' genotype. |
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| Applied biology, particularly genetic engineering |
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| chorionic villus sampling (CVS) |
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| The process by which villi are tested for prenatal analysis. |
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| The patter creared from DNA samples run on STR gels. |
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| Short pieces of single-stranded DNA that are complementrary to the nucleotide sequence of a given STR. |
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| A technique used to seperate mixtures of DNA. |
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| the modification of genetic material to achieve specific goals. |
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| genetically modified organisms (GMOs) |
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| organisms whose natrual genetic make-up has been modified to achieve a certain goal. |
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| tiny circular DNA molecules |
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| polymerase chain reaction (PCR) |
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| a process that produces virtually unlimited amounts of DNA. |
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| A key tool in genetic engineering that contains genes and can be grown in bacteria for transfer into other organisms. |
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| A special class of enzyme which cut acrossa double-helix of DNA , creating sticky ends for other DNA to reattach to. |
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| restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) |
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| DNA segments of varying length |
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| special populations of cells which give rise to dauther cells that can differntiate into several different types of mature cells. |
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| The combination of DNA from different bacterial species. |
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