alkylating agent
All > Science > Biotechnology and Genetics > Food Biotechnology
- A class of chemicals that transfer alkyl (methyl, ethyl, etc.) groups; for example to the bases in DNA. Some of these (especially ethyl methane sulphonate, abbreviated EMS) have been much used as mutagen s.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Cite This Source - This Definition - Anticodon, bP, buoyant density, kinetosome, megabase, mismatch, proofreading, wobble hypothesis