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Engineering
Genetic engineering: Changing the DNA
in living organisms to create something
new.
Example:
Bacteria that produce human insulin
2. Cloning
3. Gene splicing
4. Gel electrophoresis: analyzing DNA
1. artificial selection: breeders choose which
organism to mate to produce offspring with
desired traits.
They cannot control what genes are passed.
When they get offspring with the desired
traits, the maintain them.
DNA Code:
TTATGGCCATACGGCCTT
AATACCGGTATGCCGGAA
TTATGGCCATACGGCCTT
AATACCGGTATGCCGGAA
2. A plasmid is
removed from a
bacteria and cut
with a restriction
enzyme
3. The human gene is place into the bacteria
plasmid
4. The plasmid is placed back into the bacteria.
The cell now has directions (DNA) to make insulin.
That's exactly what it does.
Its human insulin, bacteria do not make insulin on
their own.
Plasmid with
insulin gene
This is called transformation: when a gene from
one organism is transferred to different organism.
The organisms that have DNA transferred to them
are called transgenic organisms.
Electrophoresis
results