Recombinant DNA is a technique for creating an artificial DNA molecule by joining two or more DNA fragments that are not necessarily related.
Medicine, biotechnology, and research are all areas where recombinant DNA is used.
Such DNA fragments are usually acquired from a variety of biological sources.
In research, medicine, agriculture, and business, recombinant DNA is DNA from two different species injected into a host organism to produce novel genetic combinations.
Because the gene is the center of all genetics, laboratory geneticists' primary goal is to locate, define, and manipulate genes.
Restriction enzymes are important in recombinant DNA technology because they determine where the desired gene is put into the vector genome.