what are transgenic plants? what are transgenic animals?
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Transgenic plants are plants that have been genetically engineered,a breeding approach that uses recombinant DNA techniques to create plants with new characteristics.\n\nA transgenic animal is one that carries a foreign gene that has been deliberately inserted into its genome. The foreign gene is constructed using recombinant DNA methodology.
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What then is biotechnology? The term brings to mind many different things. Some think of developing new types of animals. Others dream of almost unlimited sources of human therapeutic drugs. Still others envision the possibility of growing crops that are more nutritious and naturally pest-resistant to feed a rapidly growing world population. This question elicits almost as many first-thought responses as there are people to whom the question can be posed. \n\nIn its purest form, the term "biotechnology" refers to the use of living organisms or their products to modify human health and the human environment. Prehistoric biotechnologists did this as they used yeast cells to raise bread dough and to ferment alcoholic beverages, and bacterial cells to make cheeses and yogurts and as they bred their strong, productive animals to make even stronger and more productive offspring.
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Environmental pollution with metals and xenobiotics is a global problem, and the development of phytoremediation technologies for the plant-based clean-up of contaminated soils is therefore of significant interest. Phytoremediation technologies are currently available for only a small subset of pollution problems, such as arsenic. Arsenic removal employs naturally selected hyperaccumulator ferns, which accumulate very high concentrations of arsenic specifically in aboveground tissues. Elegant two-gene transgenic approaches have been designed for the development of mercury or arsenic phytoremediation technologies. In a plant that naturally hyperaccumulates zinc in leaves, approximately ten key metal homeostasis genes are expressed at very high levels. This outlines the extent of change in gene activities needed in the engineering of transgenic plants for soil clean-up. Further analysis and discovery of genes for phytoremediation will benefit from the recent development of segregating populations for a genetic analysis of naturally selected metal hyperaccumulation in plants, and from comprehensive ionomics data – multi-element concentration profiles from a large number of Arabidopsis mutants.
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Is it supposed to be natural genetic modification e.g. animal husbandry, or gene therapy genetic modulation? They are both forms of influencing the genes passed on to a particular animal.
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biotechnology is technology that has to do with living things. for instance, growing organs, genetically enhancing/modifying plants and animals, etc.
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Different plants and animals have different abilities to adapt.  Plants like Kudzu and Russian Thistle adapt quickly to new environments, while certain orchids and flowering plants are very sensitive to changes.  The same holds true to animals-gorillas seem very sensitive to environmental changes, while closely related chimpanzees are much hardier.  If there is an extreme enough change, most plants and animals will die, as has happened a number of time in history-but, the dominant life on Earth, bacteria, will adapt just fine.
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(1)\n- Animals are heterotrophs, i.e. they need to feed of other living things\n- Plants are (most plants are) autotrophs, i.e. they can produce their own food from the sun\n\n(2)\n- plants convert carbon dioxide to oxygen (and sugar) during the day...\n- animals need oxygen, but can't produce it themselves\n\n(3)\n- plants decrease the level of carbon dioxide in the air (which would otherwise make breathing hard for animals).
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Genetic engineering is the manipulation of the DNA of one organism by the introduction of a gene from another organism. After adding the gene, the gene starts functioning normally and we get the desired characteristics we want in that organism.\nThe gene can be introduced by 'carriers' or vectors- like viruses, bacteria or a spray of liposomes.
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Animals and plants develope unique features that help them to adapt to their enviroment.
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There are more than two, depending on specifically what you are doing.\n\nGenerally transformation is of bacteria. The two major methods for doing this are plasmid transformation and phage transformation. (see link below)\n\nThere are additional methods used on eukaryotic cells.\n The Shotgun approach coats minuscule particles of gold with the DNA you want transferred and shoots them into the cells. Insertion is random.\n\n Some plants are amenable to agrobacterium mediated transformation. This is much more precise than the shotgun approach. (see link below)
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A transgenic virus carried by birds and the birds unaffected by it. You should be writing horror stories. Click the link below.
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There are plenty such. Insulin for instance used to be produced from pigs and/or horses, if I recall correctly, before biotechnology introduced microbes capable of producing the proteins.\n\nBiotech even breeds genetically altered animals for protein production, e.g. mice whose milk contains certain proteins or antibodies.
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Animals that have a transgene inserted into them. A transgene is any DNA that is not normally in the animals Genome, like GFP (green fluorescent protein).
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Humans have bin genetically modifying food ever sints thy started to cultivate food.For example the Tomato, Corn,Peaches,Apricots,Squash,Cauliflower brocly,Cows, Sheep. Even your Dog and Cats.
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Genetic Engineering is that branch of Biology or life science in which the gene structure of organism is altered to suit a particular purpose. In other words, it is gene manipulation.  This branch will be very helpful to make life easier to the increasing population on earth.\nExamples 1) At present rice grain is more rich in starch and poor in proteins. By application of this method the protein content of rice can be increased.\n2) Disease resistant genes can be introduced in crop plants.\n3) Bacteria can be made to produce life saving drugs at a cheaper cost. \nThus the applications are many and varied.
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An animal cell is a form of eukaryotic cell which make up many tissues in animals. The animal cell is distinct from other eukaryotes, most notably plant cells, as they lack cell walls and chloroplasts, and they have smaller vacuoles. Due to the lack of a rigid cell wall, animal cells appear to be circular (though are often deformed by surrounding cells) under microscopes - in three dimensions the cells are normally spherical.
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biotechnology is seen by many as one of the most advanced form of technology.according to me biotechnology is engineering for the animals.it is a blend of biology and chemistry that is used to cure, incurable diseases just by correcting the very genes or cells that cause the disease.an engineer aspiring to become a doctor can make a great biotechnologist.