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Keywords: Genome, Overlap, Cloned, Uninterrupted, Dna

Related Terms: Plasmid, Bac, Recombinant Dna Technology, Genomic Library, Sequencer, Genomic Dna, Marker, Cpg Island, Pseudogene, Homeobox, Homeotic Gene, Microsatellite, Contig, Yeast Artificial Chromosome, Marker Gene, Molecular Marker, Homologous Recombination, Dna Sequence, Shotgun Sequencing, Cloning Vector, Expressed Sequence Tag, Est, Expression Vector, Transposon, Rflp, Transgene, Recombinant Dna, Bacterial Artificial Chromosome, Chromosome Walking, Amplification, Exons, Rdna, Gene Splicing, Gene Cloning, Plasmids, Insertion, Operator, Transposase, Cosmid, Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism, Klenow Fragment, Replicon, Restriction Fragment, Episome, Origin Of Replication, Repetitive Dna, Yac , Rapd, Markers, Pseudogenes

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Group of DNA sequences that are overlapping or contiguous on the genome. Such sequences are necessary to obtain the entire, uninterrupted sequence of the genome.

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An arrangement of overlapping cloned DNA sequences representing a region of the genome.

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Groups of clones representing overlapping regions of a genome.

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A series of cloning vectors which are ordered in such a way as to have each sequence overlap that of its neighbors. The result is that the assembly of the series provides a contiguous part of a genome.

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Contiguous or overlapping DNA clones.

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