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Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D. defines Recombinant DNA (rDNA)

Recombinant DNA (rDNA)

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Recombinant DNA (rDNA) is a technology that uses enzymes to cut and paste together DNA sequences of interest. The recombined DNA sequences can be placed into vehicles called vectors that ferry the DNA into a suitable host cell where it can be copied or expressed.

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