Information About Transgenic Organisms
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Transgenic Organism, plant, animal, or bacteria that has been genetically modified to contain a gene from a different species. The new gene is inherited by offspring in the same way as the organism's own genes. The transgenic condition is achieved by injecting the foreign gene into the fertilized e ....
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.... which is used to treat diabetes. Such uses of transgenic organisms are widely referred to as genetic engineering.
Transgenic organisms have proved very useful in analyzing the function of gene products because a specific gene can be expressed in all the cells of a transgenic organism and the effect on the organism's development and function can then be monitored. It is also possible to use transgenic procedures to produce animals in which a specific gene has been deactivated in all its body ....
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