growth hormone (GH)
the hormone secreted by the pituitary gland which stimulates growth
somatotrophin
another name for growth hormone
transgenic plants
plants which have been genetically modified to produce proteins from another organism
transgenic animals
animals which have been genetically modified to produce proteins from another organism, often a human being
microarray
a very useful laboratory tool which allows scientists to detect thousands of active genes at the same time
hybridisation
the process by which labelled DNA samples bind to the matching DNA probes on a microarray slide
bioinformatics
the development of the software and computing tools needed to organise and analyse large amounts of raw biological data (eg. the results from microarray analysis of DNA)