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Transgenic vs Transgenesis - What's the difference?

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Transgenic is a related term of transgenesis.


As nouns the difference between transgenic and transgenesis

is that transgenic is an organism whose genome has been genetically modified while transgenesis is (genetics) the process of introducing an exogenous gene into a living organism.

As an adjective transgenic

is of, or pertaining to an organism whose genome has been changed by the addition of a gene from another species; genetically modified.

transgenic

English

(wikipedia transgenic)

Adjective

(wikipedia transgenic) (-)
  • Of, or pertaining to an organism whose genome has been changed by the addition of a gene from another species; genetically modified.
  • *2008 , David Batty, The Guardian , 19 May 2008,
  • *:The third type are human transgenic embryos, made by injecting a segment of animal DNA into a human egg.

    • Derived terms

    * transgenics

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An organism whose genome has been genetically modified.

    • See also

    * hybrid

    transgenesis

    English

    Noun

  • (genetics) The process of introducing an exogenous gene into a living organism

    • Related terms

    *transgene *transgenic

    See also

    *(wikipedia "transgenesis")