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• See: joining segment.

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• Pots made from wood pulp and peat, commonly used for transplanting tissue culture -derived plants into soil medium.

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• Abbreviation for juvenile in vitro embryo technology.

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• Abbreviation for juvenile in vitro embryo technology.

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• Browse Related Terms: GURT, IVEP, IVF, IVM, JIVT, recombinant human

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• A small DNA segment that links genes to yield a functional gene encoding an immunogobulin.

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  Joining (J) segment. (n.d.). An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary. Retrieved February 4, 2023, from website: http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/joining-j-segment.

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  Joining (J) segment. filebox.vt.edu. An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary. Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn. http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/joining-j-segment (accessed: February 4, 2023).

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• (Abbreviation: J). A small DNA segment that links genes in order to yield a functional gene encoding an immunoglobulin.

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  joining segment. www.fao.org. Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture. UN Food and Agriculture Organization. http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/joining-segment (accessed: February 4, 2023).

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• See: transposable element.

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  jumping gene. www.fao.org. Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture. UN Food and Agriculture Organization. http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/jumping-gene (accessed: February 4, 2023).

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• Browse Related Terms: insertion sequence, IS element, jumping gene, long interspersed nuclear element, retro-element, retroposon, target site duplication, transposon

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• See: chromosome jumping.

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  jumping library. www.fao.org. Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture. UN Food and Agriculture Organization. http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/jumping-library (accessed: February 4, 2023).

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• Browse Related Terms: balanced lethal system, chromomeres, chromonema, chromosome banding, chromosome mutation, compound chromosome, endomitosis, endoreduplication, fluorescence in situ hybridization, gene insertion, gene replacement, genome, hybrid dysgenesis, Independent assortment, jumping library, karyogram, lampbrush chromosome, locus, Locus (plural = loci), meiotic drive, paternal, polymorphism, Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), tetrasomic, walking, X-linked, zoo FISH

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• See: repetitive DNA.

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• A hormone secreted by insects from a pair of endocrine glands close to the brain. Its function is to inhibit metamorphosis so maintaining the larval features.

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• (Abbreviation: JIVT or JIVET). A technology involving collection of immature eggs from young animals, their in vitro maturation and fertilization, and the transfer of the resultant embryos into recipient females. The method is designed to achieve rapid generation turnover.

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• Early phase of development in which an organism is incapable of sexual reproduction.

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