Transgenic Animals Examples Ppt

Recombinant DNA methodology is used to construct the gene that is intended to express desirable qualities during the growth and development of the recipient animal.

Transgenic animals examples ppt. Theyll give your presentations a professional memorable appearance - the kind of sophisticated look that. Transgenic animals 1. Transgenic animals are used as tools in research and for the production of recombinant proteins The main applications of transgenic animals are described as followsStudying gene function.

Do not express key foreign antigens. Transgenic vertebrates have been developed in species with both scientific and commercial value including fish amphibians birds and mammals. Genetically modified salmon was the first transgenic animal for food.

Species transgenic animals examples. Transgenic invertebrate species include some. For example Japanese medaka Oryzias latipes and zebrafish Barchydanio rerio have short life cycles 3 months from.

In this the udder cells from a 6-year-old Finn Dorset white sheep were injected into an unfertilized egg from a Scottish Blackface ewe which had its nucleus removed. Transgenic animals can be used as disease models transpharmers xenotransplanters food sources and other biological models. A genetically modified organism GMO is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using techniques in genetics generally known as recombinant DNA technology.

Dolly the sheep was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. The development of transgenic animals has been part of biotechnology research which has been expanding rapidly. A transgenic animal is one that carries a foreign gene that has been deliberately inserted into its genome.

Organisms containing integrated sequences of cloned DNA transgenes transferred using techniques of genetic engineering to include those of gene transfer and gene substitution are called transgenic animals. In terms of commercially important livestock species work has revolved around specialized non-agricultural purposes such as pharmaceutical production and xenotransplantation and to a lesser extent applied agricultural purposes to improve animal. Transgenic animals have been produced in a variety of species Table 1.