Genetic Engineering - Genetic engineering is also known as genetic manipulation and genetic modification, yet they all mean the same thing. It is classified under biotechnology. In most circumstances, it is the changing of genes. Sometimes, you can even insert genes of one type of animal to another.

Cell - The basic unit of all living objects. (Every person has millions of cells in their body).

Nucleus - The part of a cell that contains most of the cell's genetic information.

Cytoplasm - The gellish material of a cell outside the cell's nucleus.

DNA - Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Also known as the universal code of life.

Chromosome - Human cells contain two sets of 23 different chromosomes, one from each of their parents.

Gene - The basic units of heredity.

Heredity - The process of getting characteristics from your parents.

Human Genome Project - A project that is trying to decode 80,00-140,000 genes that hold the instructions for every inherited human trait.

Cloning - Making a carbon copy (exact in physical appearances) of a species.

Gene Alteration - The changing of genes.

Transgenic Organisms - An organism that has been genetically changed in order to carry a gene from a different species.

Gene Therapy - The manipulation of genes. (the tampering of genes for the curing of geneticdiseases).

Heredity - The process of getting characteristics from your parents.

Restriction Enzyme - An enzyme that always cuts a sequence of nucleotides.

Nucleotides - the main creator of nucleic acids.

Nucleic Acids - very complicated parts of nucleoproteins.

Nucleoproteins - structures that hold protein and nucleic acids. a circular part ( or molecule) of DNA that is in every kind of bacteria.