: a gene that is taken from the genome of one organism and introduced into the genome of another organism by artificial techniques
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebBut the hybrids do not contain the transgene and thus are not GM mosquitoes. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2019 The team didn’t find mosquitoes carrying the transgenes, foreign to A. aegypti, that Oxitec introduced to kill offspring and to fluorescently label the mosquitoes as GM. Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 1 Oct. 2019