{"id":8920,"date":"2019-05-22T16:12:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/recombinant_dna_-rdna\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:12:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:57","slug":"recombinant_dna_-rdna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/recombinant_dna_-rdna\/","title":{"rendered":"Recombinant DNA (rDNA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/neuroscience\/genetic-engineering\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/neuroscience\/genetic-engineering&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">genetic engineering<\/a>, a broad range of techniques for forming DNA from different types of organisms. It refers to cutting up a sequence of DNA molecules and combining or splicing it with another sequence of the same or different organism in a new way, thus recombining it. &nbsp;Recombinant DNA technology provides large amounts of identical copies of a gene for further analysis or experimentation such as DNA sequencing and learning about how a gene expresses itself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"dna_-deoxyribonucleic_acid-\">DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)<\/a>, <a href=\"molecular_biology\">Molecular biology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In&nbsp;genetic engineering, a broad range of techniques for forming DNA from different types of organisms. It refers to cutting up a sequence of DNA molecules and combining or splicing it with another sequence of the same or different organism in a new way, thus recombining it. &nbsp;Recombinant DNA technology provides large amounts of identical copies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/recombinant_dna_-rdna\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recombinant DNA (rDNA)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}