GENE DELIVERY VECTOR Synonyms
There are 2 hypernyms of the phrase gene delivery vector. (close relations)
Definition of GENE DELIVERY VECTOR
Best Alternative Words for GENE DELIVERY VECTOR
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| carrier | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone whose employment involves carrying something • a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something • a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings • an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction • a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages • a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal • a man who delivers the mail • a boy who delivers newspapers • (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others • a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like • (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring | ||||||||
| transporter | nounn | |||||||
noun • a long truck for carrying motor vehicles • a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships • a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) | ||||||||
| vector | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a variable quantity that can be resolved into components • a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction • any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease • (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell | ||||||||
| vehicle | nounn | |||||||
noun • a conveyance that transports people or objects • a medium for the expression or achievement of something • any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it • any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another | ||||||||
| transducing vector | nounn | |||||||
noun • a vector for delivering genes into cells | ||||||||
