| 单词 | gene drive |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgene drive gene drive n. a natural or synthetic genetic element that introduces a bias in the relative chance of inheriting distinct versions of a set of genes, enabling one to spread rapidly in a population at the expense of others even if it is disadvantageous to the organism; (also) genetic engineering technology involving the creation or insertion of such an element. ΚΠ 2004 Insect Biochem. & Molecular Biol. 34 723 Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacteria that induce cytoplasmic incompatibility in mosquitoes, and are able to use these patterns of sterility to spread themselves through populations. For this reason they have been proposed as a gene drive system for mosquito genetic replacement. 2016 Guardian (Nexis) 10 June Imagine for a moment that a hostile actor could crash the harvest of an island state by quietly introducing a gene drive or could insert a gene drive into a biting insect population to deliver toxins. 2018 C. J. Preston Synthetic Age vi. 90 Although gene editing can work on only one genome at a time, a new technology called a gene drive enables fast-breeding populations to spread engineered traits quickly through their wild populations. < as lemmas |
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