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Biotech
Title: Biotech
Category: Science & Technology / Biology
Details: Words: 395 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Biotech
Bioengineering, or genetic engineering is an altering of
genes in a particular species for a particular outcome.
It involves taking genes from their normal location in one
organism and either transferring them elsewhere or putting
them back into the original organism in different combinations.
Most biomolecules exist in low concentrations and as complex, mixed
populations which it is not possible to work efficiently. This problem
was solved in 1970 using a bug, Escherichia coli, a normally …showed first 75 words of 395 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 395 total…or creation of useful sites for cloning
· Insertion of sequences which not only allow but greatly increase the expression of cloned genes in bacterial, animal and plant cells.
· The ability to take a gene from one organism (e.g. man or tree), clone E. coli and express it in another (e.g. a yeast) is dependent on the universality of the genetic code, i.e. the triplets of bases which encode amino acids in proteins:
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