General corrections Flashcards
1
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monoculture
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cultivation of a crop in a region, possessing little diversity
- product of transgenesis, artificial insemination.
2
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DNA sequencing
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The process of determining the precise order of nucleotides within a segment of DNA.
3
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PCR
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A technique used to amplify large numbers of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
4
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PCR uses
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Genetic testing. Medical diagnosis. DNA fingerprinting. Cloning. Evolutionary study.
5
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DNA profiling
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(short tandem repeats) Testing of STRS: highly variable regions of ones DNA.
(located on introns)