Common research topics in model organism genetics include the study of gene regulation and the involvement of genes in development and cancer.

An endosymbiont is any organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism, i.e.

As a sociologist, he chose this tiny town to study how people relate to each other and influence each other, just as biologists study tiny worms with only a few hundred cells so that they can study how each cell relates to an organism as a whole.

Seymour is the man that introduced the use of drosophila here at CalTech in the '60s as a model organism to study the connection between genes and behavior.

Genetic engineering can also be used to remove genetic material from the target organism, creating a gene knockout organism.

Obviously, the release of any synthetic organism must be carefully regulated, just like the release of any genetically modified organism.

A study using polymerase chain reaction testing of stool samples suggested that symptomatic infection can exist even when sufficient quantities of the organism do not exist for identification through Direct Microscopy.

A xenobiotic is a foreign chemical substance found within an organism that is not normally naturally produced by or expected to be present within that organism.

The fact that significant research already existed for a given organism would encourage new researchers to choose it for further study, and so eventually a few model organisms became the basis for most genetics research.

And so, asks The Economist The first artificial organism and its consequences.

But can an organism like this teach us anything about emotion like states?

Basic research is the primary organism in the food chain of scientific endeavor.

But can an organism like a fruit fly, which is it's a great model organism because it's got a small brain, it's capable of complex and sophisticated behaviors, it breeds quickly, and it's cheap.

Three transport systems are used for the uptake of bases from the host organism.

The definition of pathogenic germs indicates any micro organism able to cause infectious disease.

For the purposes of the GT Act, a GMO is a viable biological entity that has been modified by modern genetic techniques, or an organism that has inherited the traits of another organism modified by such techniques.

Instead, pragmatists consider thought to be a product of the interaction between organism and environment.

In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism.

Zygosity is the degree of similarity of the alleles for a trait in an organism.

The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli is called sensitivity.

'Living modified organism (LMO) Products' are defined as processed material that are of living modified organism origin, containing detectable novel combinations of replicable genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology (for instance, flour from GM maize).

What had to be transmitted was not the final organism, but the recipe to make it.

These relationships can be essential for growth of a particular organism or group of organisms (syntrophy).

Bioaccumulation refers to the accumulation of substances, such as pesticides, or other chemicals in an organism.

A genome is really a description for all of the DNA that is in a living organism.

If genetic material from another species is added to the host, the resulting organism is called transgenic.

Definition Genetic engineering alters the genetic make up of an organism using techniques that remove heritable material or that introduce DNA prepared outside the organism either directly into the host or into a cell that is then fused or hybridized with the host.

Different types of micro organism dominate different layers based on their comparative advantage for living in that layer.

And the scientists who are contributing to EOL are answering a question, What can we learn from this organism?

It is the natural environment in which an organism lives, or the physical environment that surrounds a species population.

Most or all of the components are also missing in some fungi, most notably the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae .

Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of an organism to change its phenotype in response to changes in the environment.

This approach was innovative for recognizing that a baby is a highly developed organism, even when just newly born.

An example of an organism or two that happens to be quite immortal would be plant seeds or bacterial spores.

And the constraints in building any organism, when you look at it, are really severe. Natural technologies have incredible constraints.

In 1991, this cholera organism got into Lima, Peru, and within two months it had spread to the neighboring areas.

As often only a single cell is transformed with genetic material the organism must be regenerated from that single cell.

Bioconcentration is the accumulation of a chemical in or on an organism when the source of chemical is solely water.

Bioaccumulation occurs when an organism absorbs a toxic substance at a rate greater than that at which the substance is lost.

A stressor is a chemical or biological agent, environmental condition, external stimulus or an event that causes stress to an organism.

It's only 10 years ago this month when we published the first sequence of a free living organism, that of haemophilus influenzae.

But anyway, a friend of mine and I, Dave Hampton, decided to see if we could do like a single cell organism.

If the cloned cells are placed in the uterus of a female mammal, a cloned organism develops to term in rare instances.

But the preformist view that the entity transmitted across generations was the whole organism was contradicted by the impossibility of segmenting objects infinitely.

A habitat is an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant, or other type of organism.