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Definition of Transgenes
1. transgene [n] - See also: transgene
Medical Definition of Transgenes
1. Foreign genes that are introduced into an organism by injecting the genes into newly fertilised eggs. Some of the animals that develop from the injected eggs (animals, transgenic) will carry the foreign genes in their genomes and will transmit them to their progeny. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transgenes
Literary usage of Transgenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rice Science: Innovations and Impact for Livelihood by T. W. Mew, International Rice Research Institute (2003)
"The transgenics contained one to more than 10 copies of the individual transgenes
analyzed with the use of restriction enzymes that cut once in the coding ..."
2. Rice Genetics IV by Gurdev S. Khush, D. S. Brar, Bill Hardy (2001)
"For example, where two transgenes are arranged as an inverted repeat, ... Level 1
comprises individual transgenes and contiguous transgene copies (either ..."
3. Novel Systems for the Study of Human Disease: From Basic Research to by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (1998)
"The main approach has been production of transgenic mice harbouring transgenes
with engineered mutations (to produce dominant negative phenotypes) but ..."
4. Viral Resistance in Plants/Viral Coat Proteins: Bibliography-January 91-July 96 by Raymond Dobert (1996)
"Recent studies have linked post- transcriptional gene silencing and virus resistance
in plants expressing virus-derived transgenes. Using a potato virus X ..."
5. Rice Genetics V by Brar (2007)
"the expression of transgenes in most of these projects. Although this is adequate
for transgenes whose function is needed in most of the tissues throughout ..."
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