Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-11-37: Definitions

As used in the Oklahoma Agriculture Biotechnology Act:

1. "Donor" means the organism from which genetic material is

obtained for transfer to the recipient organism;

2. "Environment" means all of the land, air, and water and any

organism that is living in association with these elements;

3. "Gene" means the unit of heredity within an organism;

4. "Genetic engineering" means the technology used to

manipulate or alter an organism's genetic material through

recombinant DNA or RNA techniques;

5. "Organisms" means any life stage form of microorganisms,

viruses, plants, invertebrate animals, such as insects, or

vertebrate animals, including livestock, which is capable of

supplying genetic materials or affecting the genetic expression of

another living entity;

6. "Permit" means a document issued by the Board authorizing a

person to maintain, manipulate, and/or release a regulated article

into the environment;

7. "Quarantine" means the isolation and/or safeguarding of an

organism to prevent it from becoming established in the environment;

8. "Recombinant DNA or RNA" means hybrid molecules constructed

outside or inside an organism by joining, deleting, or rearranging

natural or synthetic DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) or RNA (ribonucleic

acid);

9. "Regulated article" means any organism altered or produced

through genetic engineering;

10. "Release into the environment" means the use of a regulated

article outside the constraints of physical confinement that are

found in a laboratory, greenhouse, or a fermenter or other contained

structure; and

11. "Vector or vector agent" means an organism or object used

to transfer genetic material from the donor organism to the

recipient organism.