Exogenous DNA: DNA originating outside an organism.
Exon: The proteincoding DNA sequence of a gene. Compare intron.
Exonuclease: An enzyme that cleaves nucleotides sequentially from free ends of a linear nucleic acid substrate.
Exogenous DNA DNA originating outside an organism that has been introducted into the organism.
Exon The protein-coding DNA sequence of a gene.
See also: intron ...
Exogenous DNA
DNA originating outside an organism.
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Firstly, bacteria can take up exogenous DNA from their environment, in a process called transformation. Genes can also be transferred by the process of transduction, when the integration of a bacteriophage introduces foreign DNA into the chromosome.
The process by which exogenous DNA in solution is introduced into cells. The introduction of foreign DNA into eukaryotic or prokaryotic cells.
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conversion of a normal cell into a cancerous cell; also refers to the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA by a cell
Source: Jenkins, John B. 1990. Human Genetics, 2nd Edition. New York: Harper & Row
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- Refers to bacterial cells that are able to take up exogenous DNA
Complementary DNA
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Hypersensitive sites Regions of the chromosome that are especially sensitive to digestion by exogenous dnases; such regions are usually located at the 5' end of actively transcribed genes.
A process by which the genetic material carried by an individual cell is altered by incorporation of exogenous DNA into its genome. The phenomenon was first described by Griffith (1928) in Diplococcus pneumoniae.
 See also: DNA, Trans, Molecule, Cells, Genome
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