Bio T4 Genetic modification/ engineering
- Created by: Claudiacumberpatch
- Created on: 07-03-20 12:37
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- Genetic engineering/ modification
- Uses
- Agriculture
- Crops genetically modified to be resistant to herbicides (chemicals that kill plants) so farmers can spray crops to kill weeds without affecting crop
- Extend shelf-life
- Medicine
- Genetically engineering bacteria to produce proteins (e.g. insulin)
- Transferring useful genes that produce proteins into sheep/cows can be extracted from the animal (e.g. through milk)
- Hard to predict effect modifying it's genome will have on organism many embryos don't survive or have health problems later in life
- Embryo - unborn or unattached offspring in process of development
- Hard to predict effect modifying it's genome will have on organism many embryos don't survive or have health problems later in life
- Agriculture
- Process
- Basic info
- Need long term research
- Expensive
- Organisms that have been genetically modified called GM organisms
- Uses
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