Biopunk
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Biopunk is a noun meaning (countable) A hobbyist who experiments with DNA and other aspects of genetics.
Meaning
(countable) A hobbyist who experiments with DNA and other aspects of genetics.
More Meanings
- (uncountable) A technoprogressive movement advocating open access to genetic information.
- (uncountable, science fiction) A science fiction genre that focuses on biotechnology and subversives.
Example Sentences
Using equipment ordered from online biopunk shops, he is trying to manipulate the genome of a common (but not necessarily harmless) bacterium, Serratia marcescens.
At its heart, The Wind Up Girl is a biopunk thriller following a^([sic]) undercover corporate agent and a genetically modified woman – but its detailed, bleak depiction of the effects of climate change sets it apart.
In the early nineties there grew up biopunk, a derivative sub-genre building not on IT but on biology, the other dominating scientific field of the end of the twentieth century. Individuals are enhanced not by mechanical means, but by genetic manipulation of their very chromosomes.
Word Forms
- biopunks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include biohacking, biopatent, biobanker, biopreneur, biopath, biogen.
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