Sentence examples for ring of dna from inspiring English sources

To make matters worse, the genes that gave it this superpower were found on a small ring of DNA that is easily traded between different species of bacteria.

What's worse is that it's found in a plasmid, a ring of DNA that can be passed directly between different strains of bacteria as well as being simply inherited.

A ring of DNA containing a gene that starts the body producing extra HGH is injected into the patient's muscle.

They found that a ring of DNA, called a plasmid, in the microbe caused the gall, Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

Bacterial conjugation relies on a ring of DNA called a plasmid with the genes necessary to build the mating bridge and shoot DNA across it.

A team of scientists across France, led by Christian Boucher at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in Toulouse, sequenced the bacterium's chromosome of 3.7 million base pairs, as well as a ring of DNA called a plasmid that contained an additional 2.1 million base pairs.

Stanford University School of Medicine investigators administered a customized genetic construct consisting of tiny rings of DNA, called DNA minicircles, to mice.

The bacterium also possesses two much smaller rings of DNA, known as plasmids, one of which carries its three toxin-making genes.

The city also expects results from another company, Celera Genomics, that will focus on tiny rings of DNA in cell structures called mitochondria.

The bacterium's genome consists of a single chromosome, about 4.6 million DNA units long, and three small rings of DNA called plasmids.

The Sanger team found that the plague genome consists of four rings of DNA, a large circular chromosome made up of 4,653,728 bases of DNA and three much smaller rings, or plasmids.