Knocknoit Knock In

Question 1

What does the deliberate removal or addition of a gene enable

Answer 1

The organisms concern to function as a model organisms for the study of genetic disease or drug therapies

Question 2

What is a gene knock out

Answer 2

Adenocard is a transgenic organism in which a gene or jeans has been removed or made inoperative

Question 3

How may genes be made inoperative?

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Answer 3

Being disabled, removed or replaced with the defective of alleles.

Question 4

What does this technique of gene knock out provide

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Answer 4

Clues to the roles genes play in a Cell or organism

Question 5

Example of a model organism for the study of genes

Answer 5

The mouse (knock out and knock in mouse)

Question 6

What is the advantage of using a mouse

Answer 6

It is a mammal and biochemically and physiologically very similar to humans. It has a short life-cycle and can easily be kept in lab Tory conditions. Many people are not as ethically opposed to using mice as they would be to using larger animals.

Question 7

What is gene knockin

Answer 7

This is where a particular gene has been added. Add a defective gene in order to study in detail disease progression

Question 8

What can inactivation or replacement be used for

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Answer 8

In activation or a replacement can be used to study the development of genetic disorders and drug therapies