KNOCKOUT ORGANISM

By
Nugent, Pam M.S.
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an organism in which a particular gene has been eliminated or inactivated by an experimenter

KNOCKOUT ORGANISM: "Knockout Organism is an individual organism or line of them with a particular gene eliminated. "

Related Psychology Terms

  1. KNOCKOUT
  2. GENE KNOCKOUT
  3. ROSENTHAL EFFECT
  4. EXPERIMENTER EFFECT
  5. SEX-LINKED
  6. EPIGENESIS
  7. MODIFIER
  8. INTRON
  9. SINGLE-GENE DISORDER
  10. ALLELE
Cite this page: Nugent, Pam M.S., "KNOCKOUT ORGANISM," in PsychologyDictionary.org, May 11, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/knockout-organism/ (accessed December 18, 2018).
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