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gene-splicing

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gene-splicing
n.
The process in which fragments of DNA from one or more different organisms are combined to form recombinant DNA and are made to function within the cells of a host organism.


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Miller A GROUP of multi-national European scientists has used gene-splicing techniques to create an extraordinary tomato.
Roberts, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on gene-splicing, was equally angry.
They disregard the scientific consensus that gene-splicing is an extension or refinement of older, traditional techniques of genetic modification and that it does not warrant discriminatory, excessive regulation.
 
 
 
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