See Also: Gene amplification(medicine)
Gene amplification(health)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Amplification(health)
Amplification(medicine)
amplification(dictionary)
DNA amplification(medicine)
DNA amplification(health)
Amplification, DNA(health)
Whole-genome amplification (WGA)(health)

Gene amplification (medicine)


gene amplification
<molecular biology> Selective replication of DNA sequence within a cell, producing multiple extra copies of that sequence. The best known example occurs during the maturation of the oocyte of Xenopus, where the set (normally 500 copies) of ribosomal RNA genes is replicated some 4,000 times to give about 2 million copies.