Biotechnology

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Biotechnology

• How scientists can change an organisms DNA

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In Vitro Fertilization

• Definition a way for organisms to have babies
  that are biologically their own.
• Procedure
• Take an egg cell from the mom
• Take a sperm cell from the dad
• Combine the sperm and egg in a petri dish and let
  it combine and grow into an embryo.
• Put the embryo(s) back into the mom.
• What is created a normal baby
• Examples

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Cloning

• Definition Creating an organism that is
  genetically identical to another organism
• Procedure
• Take a fertilized egg cell and remove the nucleus
  and discard it.
• Take a body cell from the organism you want to
  clone and place its nucleus into the egg cell.
• Put the egg cell into a mommy and it will grow
  into a clone.
• What is created A new baby, with the same DNA as
  the organism that you cloned.
• Examples
• Click and Clone

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Genetically Modified Organisms

• Definition when you take DNA from one organism
  and put it into another organism
• Procedure
• Take an organism
• Take a gene you want to add to the organism and
  put it into a virus.
• Infect the organism with the virus and the gene
  will jump into the organisms DNA.
• What is created An organism that has traits from
  another organism.
• Examples
• Gene Transfer Video
• what are scientists genetically modifying?

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Gene Therapy

• Definition take a good copy of a gene, put it
  into an organism and it takes over the bad copy
• Procedure
• Take someone that has a genetic disorder and find
  the problem gene
• Take a healthy copy of that gene and put it into
  a virus.
• Infect the person with the disorder with the
  virus and the healthy gene will jump into their
  DNA.
• What is created a person free of a
  disease/disorder
• Examples
• Space Doctor