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100 个常用生物技术术语解释（Glossary） This glossary contains about 100 commonly used biotechnology terms. Agrobacterium tumefaciens A common soil bacterium that causes crown gall disease by transferring some of its DNA to the plant host. Scientists alter Agrobacterium so that it no longer causes the disease but is still able to transfer DNA. They then use this altered Agrobacterium to ferry desirable genes into plants. Amino acid The fundamental building blocks of a protein molecule. A protein is composed of a chain of hundreds or thousands of amino acids. Our bod