Nanometer - A unit of length equal to one one-billionth (1 x 10-9) of a meter.⏎
Replication - The process of producing a copy of a strand of DNA.⏎
Recombinant Technology - The process that allows technicians to create artificial pieces of DNA in which two or more DNA sequences, often from separate organisms, are combined in ways that would not normally occur naturally.⏎
Pandemic - An increase in the occurrence of a particular disease over a very large region, such as a continent or the entire globe, that is greater than what is expected over a given period of time.⏎