Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1942, from recombine + -ant.
Wiktionary
a. Referring to something formed by combining existing elements in a new combination. Especially in the phrase ''recombinant DNA'' referring to an organism created in the lab by adding DNA from another species. n. An organism, cell(,) or haplotype formed by genetic recombination.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Recombinant may refer to:
- A recombinant organism – an organism that contains a different combination of alleles from either of its parents.
- Recombinant DNA – a form of artificial DNA sequence
- Recombinant protein - artificially produced (and often purified) protein
- Recombinant virus – a virus formed by recombining genetic material
- VRLA – a valve regulated lead acid (VRLA) battery that is also referred to as a recombinant battery
- InSoc Recombinant – an album by synthpop band Information Society
- Recombinant Inc - an interactive music technology company co-founded by David Cope
Usage examples of "recombinant".
I need to know about any more anonymous letters about any scientific research connected with microbiology, recombinant DNA, or gene splicing.
DNA, built from scratch from the appropriate amino acids, then multiplied by polymerase chain reactions, were spliced into bacterial plasmids, which acted as vectors to transmit the recombinant genes to the nucleus of the egg itself.
From its origins in Africa, HIV has differentiated into numerous strains, subtypes and recombinant forms, and has spread around the world.
Buried within a mass of metal and ceramic and supercooling and recombinant circuitry, it could not go gallivanting about seeking the truth it sought.
A potent amino soup, full of recombinant endocrine secretions and hormones, fed every cell in Davies' small form, triggering in seconds DNA- programmed developments which should have taken months to complete.
Let's not confuse our ERV with someone else's ERV—equine rhinovirus, for example, or ecotropic recombinant retrovirus, or, something we've all experienced in these sessions, a sudden loss of expiratory reserve volume.
It must be remembered, in attempting to fix favorable characteristics, that a monohybrid cross gives rise to four possible recombinant genotypes, a dihybrid cross gives rise to 16 possible recombinant genotypes, and so forth.
The basis of this little bastard, at least its long ago ancestry, was almost certainly Escherichia coli, the bacteria used in the earliest recombinant DNA experimentsincluding Cambridge and Limitov.
Or that recombinant DNA engineering has been yielding stupendous breakthroughs in agriculture, manufacturing, and medicine, and is already eradicating whole categories of crippling genetic disease?
Alvin Hayes was a world-class molecular biologist who had been on the cover of Time magazine after having developed a method of making human growth hormone from recombinant DNA technology.
I've got listed purchases of regulated biological cultures and growth media, freeze drying and containment equipment, recombinant gene tech.
Only after a possible recombinant had been simulated and overchecked would it finally be tried in vivo.
At the heart of any phase change there was a zone of cascading recombinant chaos.
A fictional recombinant virus made from the nuclear polyhedrosis virus, the rhinovirus, and smallpox.
Thus prepared, he opened the small book on recombinant DNA and settled in for the night.