What are GMOs?
Organisms that have had their genes modified for uses in medicine and agriculture.
- Tolerate more pesticides
- Make their own pesticides
- Grow in dry or salty places
- Make medicine
- Make extra vitamins
- Plants
- Bacteria
What are the three main types of GMOs?
Involves the cutting/splicing of genetic material from different sources
Hepatitis B vaccine produced by GM baker’s yeast, Recombinant Human Growth Hormone, Recombinant injectable insulin
- Grow more quickly than usual
- Can be genetically altered to be sterile, allowing them to be released back into normal habitat but not breed with wild relatives
- Can grow up to 10 to 11 x faster than normal fish
Human-caused evolution that typically favours a trait
Technique and treatment option to treat various medical disorders– entails a doctor or scientist inserting a gene into a patient instead of drugs or surgery. This gene might do one of three jobs: replace a mutated gene, inactivate a mutated gene, or introduce a new gene to fight disease.
- Laboratory work: DNA separation or DNA analysis and similar biological techniques.
- Maintenance of organisms used for engineering purposes
- Molecular biologist
What are some career possibilities associated with GMOs?
- Canola
- Alfalfa
- Soybeans
The process in which the mixing up of genes takes place - has led to the development of all types of genetically engineered animals useful to mankind.
What is Transgenesis?
Artificial selection deals with traits already present in the species' genome. Genetically modified organisms have new traits introduced.
How is artificial selection different to genetic modification?