reporter gene

reporter gene
re·port·er gene ri-'pōrt-ər-, -'pȯrt- n a gene often of prokaryotic origin that produces a product easily detected in eukaryotic cells and that is used as a marker to determine the activity of another gene with which its DNA has been closely linked or combined called also reporter

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