Biology Chapter 13: Genetic Engineering
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- Selective breeding
- allowing only those animals with desired characteristics to produce the next generation
- Hybridization
- crossing dissimilar individuals to bring together the best of both organisms
- Inbreeding
- continued breeding of individuals with similar characteristics
- Genetic engineering
- making changes in the DNA code of a living organism
- Restriction enzyme
- enzymes that cut DNA at a specific sequence of nucleotides
- Gel electrophoresis
- a technique used to separate a mixture of DNA fragments by size
- Recombinant DNA
- DNA molecules produced by combining DNA from different sources