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.

Added by Laws 1990, c. 226, § 3, emerg. eff. May 17, 1990. Amended by Laws 2001, c. 146, § 118, emerg. eff. April 30, 2001. Renumbered from § 2013 of this title by Laws 2001, c. 146, § 261, emerg. eff. April 30, 2001.