Glossary
- Agrobacterium rhizogenes
Soil bacteria that often possesses the Ri plasmid, and might cause the hairy root symptom in plants. It is used in plant transformation.
- Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Soil bacteria that often possesses the Ti plasmid, and might cause the crown gall tumor in plants. It is used in plant transformation.
- Allele
One of a number of different forms of a gene. Each person inherits two alleles for each gene, one from each parent. These alleles might be the same or might be different from one another.
- Amino acid
One of 20 different molecules that combine to form proteins. The sequence of amino acids in a protein determines the protein structure and function.
- Anticodon
The triplet of nucleotides in transfer RNA, which associates by ...
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