Means of representation of the feature category in the English biotechnology terminology

The article studies the feature category in the terminology of biotechnology sphere and the identification of a set of tools in English that serve to express this category. The category under study is widely used in biotechnological terminology, since it is one of the basic categories that serve to classify concepts in the field of biotechnology. The author characterizes the main means of the feature category verbalization and their structural properties in the studied term system. It has been established that in the linguistic level various means are involved in the expression of the category “attribute”: special attributive vocabulary; specialized morphemes; terms created on the basis of metaphorical transfer and syntactic constructions.