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Having genetic material deliberately introduced from an external source, commonly another organism.
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- transgenic organism
- transgenic line
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The laboratory raised a transgenic organism.
The new transgenic line produced the required protein.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a technical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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