Transgenic Plants And Animals Examples

This chapter aims to discuss genetically modified animals their potential to explicate biological processes related to pharmacological research and their functional genomics.

Transgenic plants and animals examples. For example Bt cotton contains a gene from the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis and is thus considered to be a transgenic plant. However transgenic mice expressing the human gene for the polio virus receptor. New Zealanders need to weigh up the risks and benefits associated with transgenic cows and decide what they consider to be acceptable.

The plants which are genetically engineered to carry desirable traits like disease resistance insect. Sheep goats pigs cows rabbits rats mice fish insects parasites and even humans have previously been used in this modification process. Examples of Transgenic Animals.

Genetically modified salmon was the first transgenic animal for food production. Following are the examples of transgenic animals. Their examples uses Importance and methods used to produce them.

So normal mice cannot serve as an inexpensive easily-manipulated model for studying the disease. Normal mice cannot be infected with polio virus. So for example you can make a transgenic by having a piece of DNA that you clone in a laboratory and inject it into a fertilized egg of a mouse embryo for example then that becomes integrated into the chromosome.

These animals and methods include. 1994 first mammal cloned from a somatic cell nuclear transfer. History 1982 1st transgenic plant produced which is an antibiotic resistance tobacco plant.

Some important examples of transgenic animals are as follows. The foreign gene is constructed using recombinant DNA methodology. A transgenic animal is one that carries a foreign gene that has been inserted into its genome.