transgene

noun

trans·gene | \ ˈtran(t)s-ˌjēn

, ˈtranz- \

Definition of transgene

: a gene that is taken from the genome of one organism and introduced into the genome of another organism by artificial techniques

Examples of transgene in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But the hybrids do not contain the transgene and thus are not GM mosquitoes. — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2019 The team didn’t find mosquitoes carrying the transgenes, foreign to A. aegypti, that Oxitec introduced to kill offspring and to fluorescently label the mosquitoes as GM. — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 1 Oct. 2019

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