BOT 4734C Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Genetically Modified Crops, Transgene
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The selective use of living organisms in agricultural and industrial processes. The purposeful modification of genetic makeup (genome) of an organism. The foreign dna (or changes in the original dna) becomes a permanent part of the host"s genome. The organisms (plants) transformed are: transformants, transgenic plants, genetically modified organisms (gmos) Gmo plants: soybeans, corn, rice, cotton, banana, tomato, potato, arabidopsis, lettuce, wheat, orange, tobacco. Gmo animals: fly, mouse, rat, worm, pig, dog, sheep, salmon, zebra fish. As a research tool for basic research: Purpose of biotechnology- why do we need gmos: to understand life (plants, animals, humans, microbes, mechanism of life processes, how plants grow, reproduce, respond to environmental stresses, a technology for application. Make a dna vector carrying genes of interest: introduce dna into cells, select for the few transformed cells, culture these cells into a plant, verification/analysis. What dna (genes) do you want to insert into these.
