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Transgenic Animal: Their Production, Benefits and Concerned Ethical Issue

Rahul Sharma

Abstract


Transgenic Animal is animals in which there has been a deliberate modification of its genome, the genetic makeup of a living being in charge of inherited characteristics. The nucleus of all cells in each living life form contains qualities made up of DNA. These qualities store data that directs how our bodies shape and capacity. Genes can be altered artificially, so that a few characteristics of an animal are changed. For instance, a developing life can have an additional, working quality from another source misleadingly brought into it, or a quality presented which can thump out the working of another specific quality in the embryo. Animals that have their DNA controlled along these lines are knows as transgenic animals. The larger part of transgenic animals delivered so far are mice, the animal that pioneered the technology. The principal fruitful transgenic animal was a mouse.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijaba.v2i2.121

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