Biology Library Tutorial

Boolean Searching Introduction

Perhaps you aren't interested in all aspects of genetic engineering; you're interested only in the ethical aspects of this practice. Doing a relevance search for ethical genetic engineering will produce approximately three thousand records, including those that have nothing to do with biotechnology, but do include any record that contains the word ethical. What is needed is a way to mix and match different combinations of terms in order to return only specific information that you want. The method that will perform this function is called Boolean Searching, the most powerful way of searching databases. 

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