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The GloFish is a patented and trademarked brand of genetically engineered fluorescent fish. [1]

47 relations: Aequorea victoria, Anemonia sulcata, Aquarium, Bangladesh, Black tetra, Bubble-tip anemone, Center for Food Safety, Coral, Corallimorpharia, Dendronephthya, Discosoma, Dronpa, Endocrine disruptor, Estrogen, Fluorescence, Food and Drug Administration, Genetic engineering, Genome, Green fluorescent protein, India, Insertion (genetics), Japanese rice fish, Jellyfish, Le Monde diplomatique, Lobophyllia, Model organism, Montipora, National Taiwan University, National University of Singapore, Natural environment, Non-governmental organization, Octocorallia, Patent, Pectiniidae, Pollution, Rainbow shark, Scleractinia, Sea anemone, Sea pansy, Tetra, The Independent, Tiger barb, Toxin, Trademark, Transgene, Transgenesis, Zebrafish.

Aequorea victoria

Aequorea victoria, also sometimes called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa, that is found off the west coast of North America.

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Anemonia sulcata

Anemonia sulcata, or Mediterranean snakelocks sea anemone, is a species of sea anemone in the family Actiniidae.

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Aquarium

An aquarium (plural: aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.

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Black tetra

The black tetra (Gymnocorymbus ternetzi), also known as the black skirt tetra, petticoat tetra, high-fin black skirt tetra, black widow tetra and blackamoor, is a freshwater fish of the characin family (Characidae).

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Bubble-tip anemone

Entacmaea quadricolor, commonly called bubble-tip anemone among other vernacular names, is a species of sea anemone in the family Actiniidae.

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Center for Food Safety

The Center for Food Safety (CFS) is a 501c3, U.S. environmental, non-profit organization, based in Washington, D.C. It maintains an office in San Francisco, California.

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Coral

Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.

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Corallimorpharia

Corallimorpharia is an order of marine cnidarians closely related to stony or reef building corals (Scleractinia).

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Dendronephthya

Dendronephthya is a genus of soft corals in the family Nephtheidae.

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Discosoma

Discosoma is a genus of cnidarians in the order Corallimorpharia.

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Dronpa

Dronpa is a reversibly switchable photoactivatable fluorescent protein that is 2.5 times as bright as EGFP.

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Endocrine disruptor

Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can interfere with endocrine (or hormone) systems at certain doses.

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Estrogen

Estrogen, or oestrogen, is the primary female sex hormone.

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Fluorescence

Fluorescence is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.

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Food and Drug Administration

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments.

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Genetic engineering

Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the direct manipulation of an organism's genes using biotechnology.

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Genome

In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is the genetic material of an organism.

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Green fluorescent protein

The green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a protein composed of 238 amino acid residues (26.9 kDa) that exhibits bright green fluorescence when exposed to light in the blue to ultraviolet range.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Insertion (genetics)

In genetics, an insertion (also called an insertion mutation) is the addition of one or more nucleotide base pairs into a DNA sequence.

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Japanese rice fish

The Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes) also known as the medaka, is a member of genus Oryzias (ricefish), the only genus in the subfamily Oryziinae.

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Jellyfish

Jellyfish or sea jelly is the informal common name given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.

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Le Monde diplomatique

Le Monde diplomatique (nicknamed Le Diplo by its French readers) is a monthly newspaper offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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Lobophyllia

Lobophyllia, commonly called lobed brain coral or lobo coral, is a genus of large polyp stony corals.

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Model organism

A model organism is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the organism model will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.

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Montipora

Montipora is a genus of Scleractinian corals in the phylum Cnidaria.

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National Taiwan University

National Taiwan University (NTU;; colloquially, 台大; Táidà)The name of the university is translated using Chinese word order.

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National University of Singapore

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is an autonomous research university in Singapore.

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Natural environment

The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.

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Non-governmental organization

Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.

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Octocorallia

Octocorallia (also known Alcyonaria) is a subclass of Anthozoa comprising around 3,000 species of water-based organisms formed of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry.

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Patent

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state or intergovernmental organization to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention.

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Pectiniidae

Pectiniidae was a family of stony corals, commonly known as chalice corals, but the name is no longer considered valid.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Rainbow shark

The rainbow shark (Epalzeorhynchos frenatum) is a species of Southeast Asian freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae.

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Scleractinia

Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton.

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Sea anemone

Sea anemones are a group of marine, predatory animals of the order Actiniaria.

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Sea pansy

The sea pansy is a species of colonial cnidarian in the family Renillidae.

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Tetra

A tetra is one of several species of small freshwater fish from Africa, Central America, and South America belonging to the biological family Characidae and to its former subfamilies Alestidae (the "African tetras") and Lebiasinidae.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Tiger barb

The tiger barb or Sumatra barb (Puntigrus tetrazona),Kottelat, M. (2013): The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No.

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Toxin

A toxin (from toxikon) is a poisonous substance produced within living cells or organisms; synthetic toxicants created by artificial processes are thus excluded.

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Trademark

A trademark, trade mark, or trade-markThe styling of trademark as a single word is predominantly used in the United States and Philippines only, while the two-word styling trade mark is used in many other countries around the world, including the European Union and Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth jurisdictions (although Canada officially uses "trade-mark" pursuant to the Trade-mark Act, "trade mark" and "trademark" are also commonly used).

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Transgene

A transgene is a gene or genetic material that has been transferred naturally, or by any of a number of genetic engineering techniques from one organism to another.

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Transgenesis

Transgenesis is the process of introducing an exogenous gene—called a transgene—into a living organism so that the organism will exhibit a new property and transmit that property to its offspring.

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Zebrafish

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae) of the order Cypriniformes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloFish

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