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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
transgenic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
animal
▪ The truly transgenic animals are produced in the next generation-from the genetically transformed eggs or sperm of the chimeras.
▪ Nuclei were isolated from cell lines or spleen from transgenic animals or inbred mouse strains.
mouse
▪ The transgenic mouse lines also provide a source for future studies on early developmental stages of the immune system.
▪ Supermouse is known as a transgenic mouse.
▪ Transgene copy number and expression in Ea transgenic mouse lines.
▪ This indicates that the transcriptional activity of the transgenic mice is not reflected in the methylation state of the transgenes.
▪ All Ea d transgenic mice lines were healthy and transmitted the Ea d transgene to their offspring.
▪ Reforming of DNase I hypersensitive sites in Long 12 transgenic mice in a copy number dependent fashion.
▪ These transgenic mice are also of use in more classical immunological studies.
▪ Two transgenic mice were obtained of which only the one carrying two copies of the gene could be established as a line.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All Ea d transgenic mice lines were healthy and transmitted the Ea d transgene to their offspring.
▪ But one of the transgenic sheep was outstanding.
▪ Organisms that have been altered genetically by such means are said to be transformed and after transformation they are transgenic.
▪ Tests in other transgenic plant species show that protein coats taken from viruses appear to confer protection against them.
▪ The Thompson site will produce fish and be a center for transgenic research.
▪ These transgenic mice are also of use in more classical immunological studies.
▪ We wanted to make transgenic sheep-so why not do as the mouse biologists were doing?
Wiktionary
transgenic

a. Of, or pertaining to an organism whose genome has been changed by the addition of a gene from another species; genetically modified. n. An organism whose genome has been genetically modified.

Usage examples of "transgenic".

Luke, a transgenic with a cue ball for a head, red bags under his black eyes, and huge flaps over his tiny ears.

Occasionally the transgenics would find a piece of equipment they could use or cannibalize, but mostly what Terminal City wasbefore the transgenic squatters moved in, anywaywas a ghost town.

She had seen Ames White, who did the bidding of the conclave, perform acts of strength and daring that rivaled anything any transgenic could accomplish .

After all, if the killer is a transgenic, we want him caught as much as you do.

That media crew would love to see you going transgenic on a bunch of ordinary asses.

And he would have to work quickly, which with his transgenic abilities would be no problem.

As long as the media is filled with a transgenic Jack the Ripper, negotiating with Terminal City gets lost in the alarmist shuffle.

White had used that transgenic, X5-494, to chase down other trans-genics.

Gritting his teeth against the pain, the young transgenic said nothing.

In the silence before the ring, his transgenic hearing picked up a low frequency hum, and he knew someonethe NSA?

The fed turned and tried to kick out at Bobby, but he succeeded only in providing the transgenic with an easier target.

He set Thompson and Hankins up in that warehouse with the bum imagers, providing a psychotic transgenic with two possible victims.

Every transgenic in Terminal City, and many on the other side of the fence.

Those Transnistrian companies had mostly been interested in duplicating pharmaceuticals and transgenic food crops created by other companies, producing them on the cheap and underselling the patent-owners.

It was at a Santa Croce camp in the Sidamo province of Ethiopia where the Green Leopard Plague had first broken out, the first transgenic epidemic.