Genetic Engineering and Applications PDF
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This document provides a comprehensive overview of genetic engineering, covering its fundamental concepts and applications in different fields like agriculture and medicine. It details the process involved in genetic engineering, using illustrations and diagrams to support the explanation. The document explores transgenic organisms and genetically modified organisms in both animals and plants.
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Define Genetic Engineering. Outline the process of genetic engineering involving: isolation, cutting, transformation, introduction of base sequence changes and expression. Site applications/uses of Genetic Engineering in different fields (Agriculture and Medicine). Plasmid - is a cir...
Define Genetic Engineering. Outline the process of genetic engineering involving: isolation, cutting, transformation, introduction of base sequence changes and expression. Site applications/uses of Genetic Engineering in different fields (Agriculture and Medicine). Plasmid - is a circular bacterial genome which consists a single DNA, containing non-essential genes but carry genetic advantages. Restriction Enzyme - molecular scissors that cuts DNA into fragments. Recombinant DNA - the term used to describe the combination of two DNA strands that are constructed artificially. Is any technological application that makes use of biological systems, living organisms and its components to create products and other technological systems with the aim of advancing the human condition. It is the process by which it artificially copies a piece of DNA from one organism and joining this copy of DNA into the DNA of another organism. V It allows genes from one organism to be inserted into a cell of a different organism of a different species. Human Bacterium Plant Human Shee p Plant Alteration in the segment of a DNA molecule (rDNA). Recombinant DNA is joined to other unrelated DNA in the organism. This is called gene splicing. - tiny segments of a gene are taken out and replaced by different genes Organisms altered by genetic engineering through gene transfer- the movement or insertion of a gene into an organism that normally does not have a copy of that gene. The organism receives new gene from the other. organism. GMO - genetically modified organism GEO - genetically engineered organism For example - Plants that resists a particular type of weed killer - SheeP, which makes some special substance in its milk. 1. Isolation. - 0.Knt>
