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Genome

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Entire genetic material of an organism - DNA in the nucleus and the mitochondria combined

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How is DNA layout?

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Chromosomes made up of hundreds of millions of DNA base pairs - genes only make up about 2% of your total DNA - these are exons

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What are introns?

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Large non-coding regions of DNA that are removed from messenger RNA before it is translated into a polypeptide chain

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DNA profiling?

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Producing an image of the patterns in the DNA of an individual - assists in the identification of individuals/family relationships

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What is DNA profiling referred to as?

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Genetic fingerprinting since every individual’s DNA profile is unique

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5 main stages in producing DNA Profile

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Extracting the DNA
Digesting the sample
Separating the DNA fragments
Hybridisation
Seeing the evidence

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Extracting the DNA

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Using Polymerase Chain Reaction - tiniest fragment of tissue can give scientists enough DNA to develop a profile

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Digesting the sample

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Strands of DNA are cut into small fragments using special enzymes called restriction endonucleases - different enzymes cut DNA at a specific nucleotide sequence known as a restriction site

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How many cuts do restriction endonucleases make?

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Two - one through each strand of DNA

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Why do scientists use restriction endonucleases?

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Give scientists ability to cut the DNA strands at defined points in the introns ; use a mixture of restriction enzymes that leave the repeating units or satellites intact so the fragments at the end of process include a mixture of intact mini and micro satellite regions

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Separating the DNA fragments?

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Using electrophoresis - the way charged particles move through a gel medium under the influence of an electric current - gel is immersed in alkali in order to separate the DNA double strands into single strands - single stranded DNA fragments are then transferred onto a membrane by southern blotting

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Hybridisation

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Radioactive or fluorescent DNA probes are now added in excess to DNA fragments on the membrane ; these are short DNA/RNA sequences complementary to a known DNA sequence which bind to complementary strands under particular conditions of pH and temperature

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What does hybridisation do?

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Identifying micro satellite regions that are more varied than larger mini satellite regions

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Seeing the evidence

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If radioactive labels were added to the DNA probes - X-ray images could be taken of the paper/membrane ; or fluorescent tags under UV light - fragments give a pattern of bars which is unique except for identical siblings

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What is PCR used for?

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Amplifying a DNA sample

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Ingredients for PCR

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Excess of the 4 nucleotide bases (in the form of deoxynucleoside triphosphates)
Small primer DNA sequences
Enzyme DNA polymerase
ALL IN A THERMAL CYCLED

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Step 1 of PCR

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Temperature is increase to 90/95 which denatures the DNA by breaking hydrogen bonds holding them together so they separate

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Step 2 PCR

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Annealing of the primers - temperature is decreased to 55/60 and the primers bind (anneal) to the ends of the DNA strands - they are needed for the replication of the strands to occur

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Synthesis of DNA PCR

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Step 3

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Step 3 PCR

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Temp is increased to 75 for optimum temperature for DNA polymerase
DNA polymerase adds bases to the primer building up complementary strands of DNA and so producing double stranded DNA identical to the original sequence

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What enzyme is used in synthesis of DNA?

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Taq polymerase - obtained from thermophilic bacteria found in hot springs

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Uses of DNA profiling

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Forensics - dna profiles from blood, semen etc is compared to a criminal DNA database
Prove paternity of a child - demonstrates evolutionary relationships between different species
Identifying individuals who are more at risk from developing certain diseases - certain non-coding micro satellites have been found to be associated with increased incidence of disease

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DNA profiling summary

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Used with DNA sequencing to make more confident risk assessments
Producing an image of the patterns in non-coding DNA of an individual

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DNA sequencing

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Determine the precise order of nucleotides within a DNA molecule

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First sequencing technique?

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Sanger sequencing enabled him to read 500-800 bases at one time - first genome they sequenced was phiX174 - virus that attacks bacteria

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Refinement of DNA sequencing technique?

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Swapping of radioactive labels for coloured fluorescent tags which led to scaling up and automation of the process - led to capillary sequencing version which is still used today

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HGP

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Massive international project established in 1990 to map the entire human genome - making the data freely available to scientists all over the world

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Why was human genome first draft complete so quickly

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Automation of sequencing techniques and development of faster computers meant that project was ready two years ahead of schedule and under budget

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What are terminator bases?

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Modified versions of the 4 nucleotide bases which stop DNA synthesis when they are included - A terminator will stop DNA synthesis at the location that an A base would be added etc etc ; the terminator bases are also given coloured fluorescent tags
Terminator bases lack an oxygen on third carbon

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A

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Green

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G

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Yellow

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T

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Red

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C

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Blue

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What does capillary method start with?

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DNA for sequencing is mixed with a primer, DNA polymerase, an excess of normal nucleotides and terminator bases

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Step 2 dna sequencing

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Mixture is placed in thermal cycles and rapidly changes temperature - 96 degrees would cause double stranded DNA to separate and at 50 degrees the primers anneal to the DNA strand

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Step 3 dna sequencing

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At 60 degrees, DNA polymerase starts to build up new DNA strands by adding nucleotides with the complementary base to the single-strand DNA template

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Step 4 dna sequencing

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Each time a terminator base is incorporated - synthesis of DNA is terminated ; as chain terminating based are present in lower amounts and are added at random, it results in many DNA fragments at random lengths - after many cycles, all the possible DNA chains will be produced with the reaction stopped at every base ; they are separated according to length by capillary sequencing (fluorescent markers are used to identify the final base on each fragment) - lasers detect different colours and thus order of the sequence

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Order of bases in capillary tubes

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Shows the sequence of the new complementary strand of DNA = used to build up original strand ; data fed into computer that reassembles the genomes by comparing fragments and finding the areas of overlap between them - these genomes can then be researched

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Next-generation sequencing

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DNA sequencing technologies have become faster and more automated - new, automated, high-throughput sequencing processes - instead of using gel of capillaries, the sequencing reaction takes place on a plastic slide known as a flow cell

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How does a flow cell work?

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Millions of fragments of DNA are attached to the slide and replicated in situ using PCR to form clusters of identical DNA fragments - as all of the clusters are being sequenced and imaged at the same time, technique is known as ‘massively parallel sequencing’

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How refined are these DNA sequencing processes?

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Extremely efficient - 3 billion base pairs of human genome can be sequenced in days and those of a bacterium in less than 24 hours ; high-throughput sequencing also means cost has fallen so more genomes can be sequenced and they open up a range of questions that scientists can ask on the genome in many new ways

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Bioinformatics

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Development if software and computing tools needed to organise and analyse raw data - stats tests, mathematical models and algorithms etc (make sense of a lot of data)

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Computational biology

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Build theoretical models of biological systems - 3D structures of proteins from sequencing
Determine evolutionary links/genes linked to diseases

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Genomics

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Analysing structure and function of genomes

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Analysing pathogen genomes

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Find sources of an infection
Identify antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria
Track of diseases like Ebola
Identify genetic markers in pathogens for use in vaccines

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Species genome analysis

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DNA barcoding - common sections that vary between species
Mitochondrial dna from cytochrome c - cellular respiration enzyme
Have nit come up with regions for fungi and bacteria (downside)

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Phylogeny

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Basic mutation rate - can be calculated - how long ago two species diverged

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Proteomics

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Amino acid sequencing

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Spliceosomes

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Exons joined together by enzyme complexes called spliceosomes ; in a variety of ways so many proteins from one mRNA

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Synthetic biology

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Ability to sequence genomes and understand how it translates to amino acids - store and manipulate data

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Synthetic biology examples

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Genetic engineering
Fixed/immobilised enzymes
New genes replacing faulty genes - development of cystic fibrosis (functional genes replace faulty ones)
Synthesis of entire new organism (artificial genome)

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Transgenic

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Organism that carries a gene from another organism

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Isolate desired gene

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Restriction endonucleases cut gene from DNA at specific base sequence
Some are blunt
Others are sticky - one strand longer than other strand ; unpaired/exposed bases makes it easier to insert desired gene into DNA of another organism

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How else to isolate gene?

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Using reverse transcriptase to produce a single strand of complementary dna - makes it easier to identify the desired gene as some cells make a lot of mRNA

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Vectors

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Bacterial plasmids - contain marker gene so for example they may have been engineered to have a gene for antibiotic resistance
Bacteria have taken up the plasmid by growing in media containing antibiotic - bacteria will still grow

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How to cut open plasmid

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Same restriction endonuclease - plasmid has complementary sticky ends - DNA ligase phosphodiester bonds

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If DNA fragment inserted successfully

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Marker gene will not function - often fluorescence or colour change ; HAS BEEN ENGINEERED SUCCESSFULLY IF IT DOES NOT FLUORESCE

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Transferring the vector

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Plasmid with recombinant DNA is transferred to host cell in TRANSFORMATION

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First way of transformation

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Culture in a calcium rich solution and increase temperature - membrane is permeable and plasmids can enter

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Second way of transformation

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Electroporation small electric current is applied to the bacteria - makes them porous and plasmids move in
POWER HAS TO BE CONTROLLED else membrane will be permanently damaged

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Electro fusion

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Tiny electric currents are applied to membranes of two different cells - fuses cells and nuclear membranes together to form a polyploid cell continaining both DNA
Used to create a hybridoma

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How many different restriction endonuclease needed

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2 for each cut

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Recombinant plasmid

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Genes from organism + marker genes - ONLY FOR DNA
Transgenic is for organism

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Restriction endonucleases

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At restriction sites

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Reverse transcriptase

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Allow mRNA to be transcribed - extracted and mix with RE
Converts mRNA back into COMPLEMENTARY DNA AND PUT INTO PLASMID
Useful because it’s mature MRNA (already spliced) SAVES A LOT OF TIME - DO NOT NEED TO PROCESS INTRONS IN PLASMID - SAVES ENERGY FROM BACTERIA

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Where do restriction endonucleases cut in vector

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At marker gene
Blue marker gene recombinant - DOES NOT PRODUCE BLUE PIGMENT BECAUSE CANNOT BE TRANSCRIBED
Second marker gene - antibiotic resistant gene (can survive with antibiotics)

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What enzyme joins fragments together to make recombinant DNA?

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DNA ligase

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Plasmids only transformed into

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Bacteriaaaaa

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Blue colonies or

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White colonies

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Somatic cell gene therapy

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Replacing mutant allele with a healthy allele in the affected somatic body cells - a temporary solution as healthy allele is passed on every time a cell divides by mitosis but somatic cells only have limited lives so replaced by stem cells with faulty allele
STILL PASSES ON FAULTY ALLELE TO ANY CHILDREN

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Germ line cell gene therapy

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Healthy allele into the germ cells of an embryo after fertilisation - individual born healthy and pass onto offspring

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Downside of her line cell gene therapy

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Potential impact on an individual is unknown
Human rights of unborn individual is violated without consent and irrevocable
Enables people to choose desirable or cosmetic characteristics ETHICAL concerns

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Pharming

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Production of human medicines - creating animal models or human proteins

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Animal models

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Genes deleted so they are more likely to develop cancer - develops certain diseases

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Human proteins

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Human gene coding for a medically required protein - genetic material of a fertilised cow - fertilised transgenic female is then returned to mother ; when baby matures and gives birth produces milk with proteins to be harvested

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Ethical issues

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Welfare of animals (in pharming for example)
Human genes in animals
Making animals commodities

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Insect resistance

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Inserted gene into soya beans to produce bt protein that is toxic to many pests - no need for pesticides (or weed killer sometimes)

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Benefits of GM crops

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Increase yield - no pesticide spraying helps environment
Resistant to diseases
Herbicides can reduce competition
Enhanced levels of vitamins and grown in wider conditions all year round
Produce human vaccines

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GM crops cons

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Non-pest insects may be damaged by toxins in GM plants
May produce supersedes ; transferred genes in wild populations - reduces biodiversity
People may be allergic
Reduce commercial value and demand - LONG SHELF LIFE

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Patent

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Legal patent means less economically developed countries cannot use them - flood/drought resistant crops unable to afford the GM seed
CANNOT SAVE THE SEED FOR GROWTH THE NEXT YEAR
Share technological advancements without patent ✅

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