Transgenic Animals Applications And Examples
Transgenic animals, i.e., engineered to carry genes from other species, have the potential to improve human welfare,although there are many ethical issues surrounding transgenesis, this presentation focuses on its applications in agriculture, medicine, and industry.
Transgenic animals applications and examples. (1) resistance to biotic stresses (2) resistance to abiotic stresses (3) improvement of crop yield and quality (4) transgenic plants with improved nutrition(5) commercial transgenic crop plants and (6) transgenic plants as bioreactors. There is a potential to use human gene therapy to replace a mutated gene with an unmutated copy of a transgene in order to treat the genetic disorder. Following are the examples of transgenic animals:
Costantini, in brenner's encyclopedia of genetics (second edition), 2001. Plant cells are totipotent, meaning that practically any plant cell can eventually give rise to every sort of plant tissue: Practical applications of transgenics in livestock production include improved milk production and composition, increased growth rate,
Transgenic chickens are now able to synthesize human proteins in the white of their eggs. Foreign genes are inserted into the germ line of the animal, so it can be transmitted to the progeny. Applications of transgenic plants genetic engineering and gm crops over the last 30 years, the field of genetic engineering has developed rapidly due to the greater understanding of deoxyribonucleic acid (dna) as the chemical double helix code from which genes are made.
Then common misconceptions will be addressed, and the ethics of transgenic animal creation will be discussed. Some important examples of transgenic animals are as follows: This report aims to provide the information on transgenic animals that is needed for readers to draw their own conclusions on this topic.
Methods of creation of transgenic animals For more information see d. Ruddle (1981), there has been rapid development in the use of genetically engineered animals as investigators have found an increasing number of applications for the technology.
Sheep, goats, pigs, cows, rabbits, rats, mice, fish, insects, parasites and even humans have previously been used in this modification process. Animal biotechnology is the use of science and engineering to modify living organisms. Since 1981, when the term transgenic was first used by j.w.