Transgenic Animals Applications And Examples
By, damaris benny daniel ii msc.
Transgenic animals applications and examples. Use of transgenic animals will provide solutions for drug research, xenotransplantation, clinical trials and will prove to be a new insight in drug development. Examples of animal biotechnology include creating transgenic animals (animals with one or more genes introduced by human intervention), using gene knock out technology to make animals with a. Mice, however, are the most popularly tested animals in.
For more information see d. Plant cells are totipotent, meaning that practically any plant cell can eventually give rise to every sort of plant tissue: The scientific outlook of right and wrong opinions about transgenic animals is called ethics of transgenic animals.
Transgenic animals have the potential of agricultural applications like improved growth rate and carcass composition, improved resistance to disease, increased milk yield, improved wool production and so on. Since 1981, when the term transgenic was first used by j.w. 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.
The main principle in the production of transgenic animals is the introduction of a foreign gene or genes into an animal (the inserted genes are called transgenes).the foreign genes must be transmitted through the germ line, so that every cell, including germ cells, of the animal contains the same modified genetic material 18. This section on transgenic mice was jointly written by lara marks and dmitriy myelnikov. Animals engineered to be susceptible to human viruses, by introduction of viral receptors or other host range determinants, can also be used for testing human vaccines.
One of the most important aspects between fish and other terrestrial animals for cultivation and genetic improvement is that, usually, fishes have higher levels of genetic variation and hence more scopes for selection than. Sheep, goats, pigs, cows, rabbits, rats, mice, fish, insects, parasites and even humans have previously been used in this modification process. 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.
Transgenic animals and their application in medicine * bagle tr 1 , kunkulol rr. In the interest of educating the public about transgenic animals and determining their effect on society, the methods of creating transgenic animals is discussed. Dolly the sheep was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.