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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An organism, cell, or virus in which genetic recombination has taken place.
  • noun Material produced by genetic engineering.
  • adjective Formed by or showing recombination.
  • adjective Of or relating to recombinant DNA.

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  • adjective Referring to something formed by combining existing elements in a new combination. Especially in the phrase recombinant DNA referring to an organism created in the lab by adding DNA from another species.
  • noun An organism, cell, or haplotype formed by genetic recombination.

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  • adjective of or relating to recombinant DNA
  • noun a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred

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Examples

  • Ever fascinated by the new computer and biological technologies he helped foster in his first go-round as California's youngest elected governor, in which shifting computing paradigms and recombinant DNA played the leading edge of the change, Brown has always been fascinated by what I call recombinant ideologies.

    10 Key Things To Know About The High-Stakes California Governor's Race 2010

  • Ever fascinated by the new computer and biological technologies he helped foster in his first go-round as California's youngest elected governor, in which shifting computing paradigms and recombinant DNA played the leading edge of the change, Brown has always been fascinated by what I call recombinant ideologies.

    William Bradley: 10 Key Things To Know About The High-Stakes California Governor's Race 2010

  • Ever fascinated by the new computing and biological technologies he helped foster in his first go-round as governor (when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Intel co-founder Bob Noyce, and Silicon Valley marketing guru Regis McKenna served in his administration) -- in which shifting computing paradigms and recombinant DNA played the leading edge of the change -- Brown has always been fascinated by what I call recombinant ideologies.

    Jerry Brown's Long and Winding Road 2010

  • Ever fascinated by the new computing and biological technologies he helped foster in his first go-round as governor (when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Intel co-founder Bob Noyce, and Silicon Valley marketing guru Regis McKenna served in his administration) -- in which shifting computing paradigms and recombinant DNA played the leading edge of the change -- Brown has always been fascinated by what I call recombinant ideologies.

    William Bradley: Jerry Brown's Long and Winding Road 2010

  • Base sequence determinations are essential steps in recombinant-DNA technology, which is the rationale for Gilbert and Sanger sharing the prize with Berg.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

  • Xigris is known as a recombinant form of activated protein C.

    Lilly Pulls Sepsis Drug for Lack Of Efficacy Peter Loftus 2011

  • I spent a great deal of time with Tom Maniatis, who pioneered many of the techniques in recombinant DNA.

    Richard Axel - Autobiography 2005

  • Unfortunately, attempts to become the undisputed experts in recombinant lexography failed to help us.

    Happy (Belated) Anniversary, SF Signal! 2004

  • Another test that doctors have used to test for HCV in recent years is called the recombinant immunoblast assay RIBA.

    DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001

  • Assuming (and I am almost convinced) that those fears on the part of the scientists were overblown (and thus also the consequent lay fears), the real and long-term recombinant DNA story is likely to be that of the relationships among scientists when they are themselves divided on scientific issues with important social and ethical implications, and the relationship between science and the public.

    Worried Scientists Callahan, Daniel 1978

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