Artificial manipulation, modification, and recombination of DNA or other nucleic-acid molecules in order to modify an organism or population of organisms. The term initially meant any of a wide range of techniques for modifying or manipula...

All the genes on a single chromosome. They are inherited as a group; during cell division they act and move as a unit rather than independently. Variations in linkage groups can occur if a chromosome breaks, and the sections join with the ...

Hundreds of scientists are currently working together toward one common goal: to decipher the coded information in the human genome. A genome includes all the DNA within a cell's chromosomes. The human genome consists of an estimated 50,00...

Genetic material is the inheritable material of an organism. The genetic material of most life forms is comprised of DNA. DNA is present in the cells as chromosomes, which are found in the nucleus of eukaryotes. This is not the only locati...

As scientific research reveals more information about treating diseases and maintaining good health, it has become increasingly important to identify diseases in their early stages in order to treat them most effectively. Thus, researchers...

GMOs (Genetically modified organisms) are organisms whose genetic makeup has been altered through modification of its specific genes. GMOs widely represent all the living organisms that possess DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); such organisms in...

Geneticists, or genetic scientists, study heredity. Heredity is the process by which certain characteristics of an organism are handed down from parent to offspring. Geneticists study plants and animals, including humans. Geneticists work ...

Early in his literary career Maurice Genevoix emerged as an important witness of his time because of his personal experience at the battle of the Marne, recounted in his tetralogy Ceux de 14 (The Men of 1914), whose title refers to the sol...

Genital warts, also called condylomata acuminata or venereal warts, are growths in the genital area caused by a sexually transmitted virus. Genital warts are the most common sexually transmitted disease. It is estimated that 1% of sexually...

The Genna Brothers Active: 1912–1925 The six Genna brothers were among the first gangsters in the city of Chicago to build an empire that took advantage of the prohibition of alcohol. Once key players in the bootlegging wars, the brot...

The Genocides is a 1965 science fiction novel written by Thomas M. Disch. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965....

The project with the goal of sequencing the human genome, which is the collection of all human genes. In the 1990s, a scientific commitment was made to identify all the genes in human chromosomes, and some other organelles such as mitochon...

Genetic makeup of an organism. The genotype determines the hereditary potentials and limitations of an individual. Among organisms that reproduce sexually, an individual's genotype comprises the entire complex of genes inherited from both ...

See also boys’ literacy, equal opportunities, girls’ literacy, language variety, video-film Debates about gender and language development are associated with other large issues like the implications of ‘sex roles’ i...

And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. Thou blossom! bright with autumn dew, And colour's with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty ni...

d. 1348 Italian physician and medical lecturer who was a pioneer in the study of hygiene. An instructor at the University of Perugia after it was established in 1308, Foligno wrote a commentary on the Canon of Ibn Sina (Avicenna; 980-1037)...

SOURCE: "The Gentle Shepherd," in Society and the Lyric: A Study of the Song Culture of Eighteenth-Century Scotland, Scottish Academic Press, 1979, pp. 70-96. In the following excerpt, Crawford examines the political and social context and ...

Though Laura Hobson, who wrote "Gentleman's Agreement," is undoubtedly a celebrity in her own right, there is nothing autobiographical in ["The Celebrity"], her fourth—and perhaps her best—novel. The story centers on the selection of "T...

Social indicators are statistical time series that are "used to monitor the social system, helping to identify changes and to guide intervention to alter the course of social change" (Ferriss 1988, p. 601). Examples are unemp...

Greek Astronomy The Greeks were the originators of much of the modern science we have today. Ancient Greek astronomy was one of the most revolutionary thought changing and challenging discoveries of all time, and much of their philosoph...