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Techno-Biodiversity: Increase in the diversity of living organisms by way of the construction of artifacts.
Technoethics ('noetic' from the Greek 'nous'): The field of humanitarian studies that involves issues governing the relationship of consciousness to technology.
Technozoosemiotics: The field situated at the crossroads of semiotics, ethology, the cognitive sciences, technology, computer science and artistic practice; it is an integral part of zoosemiotics, which studies the signals developed by living species for inter- or extra-specific communication.
Tele-Immersion: The merging of virtual reality with collaboration technology (the connecting of people to each others applications, images and simulation).
Telematics: The convergence of telecommunications and information processing. The term has evolved to refer to automobile systems that combine GPS satellite tracking and wireless communications.
Tissue (biol.): Systems of cells having similar origin, structure and functions. Tissues also contain tissue liquid and vital functions' products.
Tissue Culture (explantation): A technique for maintaining, multiplying and growing cells from multi-cellular organisms in a liquid medium in vitro (outside of the body). See Tissue Culture and Art, Semi-Living Organism, Semi-Living Sculpture.
Tissue Culture and Art: The field of art that employs tissue engineering techniques to grow organs and tissues in vitro (outside of the body). See Tissue engineering, Semi-Living Sculpture, Tissue Culture.
Tissue Engineering: The application of the principles of life sciences and engineering to develop biological substitutes for the restoration or replacement of tissue or organ function. Tissue engineering combines knowledge from the biological sciences with the materials and engineering sciences to quantify structure-function relationships in normal and pathological tissues, to develop new approaches to repair tissues, and to develop replacements for tissue. See Tissue Art and Culture, Stem Cells.
Total Failure Strategy: A kind of art activity which, while aiming at a conscious expectation of "failure" and "misfortune" of the project, has the purpose of representing various bans on the practice of chimera art.
Totipotency: The ability of a cell to proceed through all the stages of development and thus produce a normal adult. See also Cell.
Transcription: The synthesis of RNA using a DNA template. The process whereby RNA is synthesized from a DNA template. See DNA, RNA.
Transgenesis: The transfer of genes to an unrelated organism and their subsequent expression.
Transgenic Art: The field of artistic activity based on the methods of transgenesis. See Transgenesis.
Transgenic Organism: An experimentally produced organism in which DNA has been artificially introduced and incorporated into the organism's germ line, usually by injecting the foreign DNA into the nucleus of a fertilized embryo. See DNA.
Translation: The process of protein synthesis whereby the primary structure of the protein is determined by the nucleotide sequence in mRNA. The ribosome-mediated production of a polypeptide whose amino acid sequence is derived from the codon sequence of an mRNA molecule.
Triplet: A successive "frame" of three nucleotides of the mRNA corresponds to one amino acid of the protein (the synonym of codon). See Nucleotide, Codon.
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