algeny

  1. Noun.   The transformation of genetic material. Joshua Lederberg, 'Experimental genetics and human evolution', ''American Naturalist'' 100(1966), 519-531.;.
  2. Noun.   Any of, and all of, those activities which depend on the handling of genetic material.

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