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DNA whose segments are from different sources, genes isolated and transferred to different organisms

an enzyme that recognizes a specific nucleotide sequence and breaks the DNA chain at those points

Small circles of DNA found outside chromosomes in prokaryotic organisms

Method of producing many copies of tiny segments of DNA

Changes in DNA sequence

one base pair changes into a diffrent one

change in DNA that results in codons coding for a different amino acid than the original codon

change in DNA that results in codons coding for a "stop" resulting in an abnormally short protein

an increase in the number of copies of a particular segment of DNA