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By: Lydia Valentino
What is one of the benefits of creating a genetically
modified animal?
Producing animal models for
research!
What is genetic mapping?
When a scientist charts the position of genes and other
markers in relation to each other
What is described as terrorism?
The Animal Liberation Front (AFL)
Transgenic Animals:
Implantation of genetic information from one species to
another to create a customized strain of mice for research is
a form of creating transgenic animals!!!
Tissue and Organ Donation:
Using genetically modified pigs to harvest heart valves from
humans shows benefits of using genetically modified organisms
for tissue and organ donation
First reports of cloning:
The first time cloning mammals successfully was reported in
the 20th century
Scaffolding:
Scaffolding is the very first step to building a new organ
using regenerative medicine
Alternative scientific methods not using animals:
Reduce, replace, and refine are the alternative scientific
methods used to design experiments that do not use animals.
What microscopes are used to manipulate material on
the nanoscale?
Scanning probes and helium ion
Somatic cell:
To create a cloned animal, it is the structure that contains
the genetic information that the scientists intend to clone
Clean room:
A clean room is designed to keep out all airborne particles
and is used to conduct research on research technology.
Pluripotent stem cells(iPS cells):
Programmed adult cells produced in a lab to take on the
characteristics of embryonic stem cells
Allele:
Any number of viable DNA codings of the same gene, occupying
a given position on a chromosome
Artificial heart:
A medical device that made the external cardiac pump obsolete
Tissue for xenograft:
The tissue for the xenograft for a heart transplant comes
from a different species
XX chromosome:
Human females have the XX chromosome pairing
Xenograft:
The xenograft is an organ transplantation from another
species
The sheep:
The sheep was cloned in scotland in 1996
Clean rooms:
Clean rooms keep airborne particles out
PETA:
PETA is an animal rights group
Patents:
When researchers apply for a patent from the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, they are seeking approval to create a
transgenic animal
Animal welfare Act
This act was passed in 1996 specifically to govern the use of
animals in research, testing, and teaching
Somatic stem cells:
Adult stem cells that are undifferentiated
Incomplete dominance:
Described by plants possibly having several different colors.
Chemical properties:
Refer to how the material will interact with other materials
Creating a transgenic animal:
Implanting a gene from one organism into an embryo will
create a transgenic animal
Totipotent cell:
The structure that has the potential to develop into any
other cell within the human body