MODULE 3

Lesson 3
Gene/s
an element of heredity.

observed by Gregor Medel in 1865.

are passed from parents offspring

and contain the information needed

to specify traits.
 GENETIC ALTERATION
Is the process of modification of genetic
makeup of any living organisms is can happen
by control or selective breeding of plants
animals and other living organisms
Around 30,000 years ago selective breeding or artificial
selection happened already it is a phenomenon where in
organism were carefully selected based on their most
desired traits and waiting them with the intention of
combining propagating this traits through their offspring.

MASTIFF BULLMASTIFF
BULLDOG
THEN

1973
Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen worked
together to engineer the first successful
genetically engineered (GE) organism.

A year after
Rudolf Jaenisch and Beatrice Mintz
utilized a similar procedure in animals
introducing foreign dna into mouse
embryos.
CRISPR
Clustered Regularly Interspaced
Short Palindromic Repeats

which takes advantage of bacterial

systems to simplify genetic editing
allowing for easier development of
genetically engineered organisms
 Timeline of
how genetic
modification
developed
through
time.
 Biodiversity loss Pleiotropy

EXAMPLE: EXAMPLE:
The expansion of gm
Gma's in 2008 wherein
herbicide- tolerant corn and
soy, which are twinned with it had an unpredicted
herbicides, has destroyed appearance of a new
much of the habitat of the form of the protein
monarch butterfly on north which is known as
america. allergen.
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