Florida Blue is a trade name of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.ecently, a health insurance company in upstate New York named Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield (Excellus) announced that it had been the victim of a cyber-attack. Excellus operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in upstate New York, but not in Florida.
Gene cassette. A gene cassette is broadly a modular DNA sequence encoding one or more genes for a single biochemical function. In genetic engineering, a gene cassette refers to a manipulable fragment of DNA carrying, and capable of expressing, one or more genes of interest between one or more sets of restriction sites.
Genetics is the study of how traits are passed from parent to child. The information that children get from their parents is contained in chemical packets of information called genes. These genes make up larger units called chromosomes (KRO-mo-somz).