biological vector (redirected from Vector (biology))

vector /vec·tor/ (vek´ter)

1. a carrier, especially the animal (usually an arthropod) that transfers an infective agent from one host to another.

2. a plasmid or viral chromosome into whose genome a fragment of foreign DNA is inserted; used to introduce foreign DNA into a host cell in the cloning of DNA.

3. a quantity possessing magnitude, direction, and sense (positivity or negativity).vecto´rial

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biological vector  an arthropod vector in whose body the infecting organism develops or multiplies before becoming infective to the recipient individual.

mechanical vector  an arthropod vector which transmits an infective organism from one host to another but which is not essential to the life cycle of the parasite.

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biological vector

n.

A vector that is essential in the life cycle of a pathogenic organism.

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vector

1. a carrier, especially the animal (usually an arthropod) which transfers an infective agent from one host to another, e.g the tsetse fly, which carries trypanosomes from animals to humans, dogs, bats and other animals that transmit the rabies virus. In molecular biology, a DNA molecule which serves to transfer DNA into a host cell.

2. a quantity possessing magnitude, direction and sense (positivity or negativity).

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biological vector

an arthropod vector in whose body the infecting organism develops or multiplies before becoming infective to the recipient individual.

cloning vector

a DNA molecule used to transfer an inserted DNA segment into a host cell. Includes other viruses, phages and bacterial plasmids. Called also cloning vehicle.

mechanical vector

an arthropod vector that transmits the infective organisms from one host to another but is not essential to the life cycle of the parasite.

shuttle v's

vectors which contain both prokaryotic and eukaryotic replication signals, thus allowing replication of the vector in both kinds of cells.

targeting vector

a vector carrying a DNA sequence that is able to take part in a specified chromosomal crossover in the host.