DuPont. (At Closing News).DuPont, Wilmington, Del., announces that it will make proprietary wheat genome genome: see genetics. genome all the genetic content contained within an organism. An organism's genome is made up of molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that form long strands that are tightly wound into chromosomes, which are found in the data available without restriction to public and private researchers. The data, which consists of more than 200,000 lines of expressed sequence tags An expressed sequence tag or EST is a short sub-sequence of a transcribed spliced nucleotide sequence (either protein-coding or not). They may be used to identify gene transcripts, and are instrumental in gene discovery and gene sequence determination. , more than doubles the amount of wheat genome information currently available through GenBank, a public database of DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. information. |
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