Transgenesis in Transgenic Animals and Its Applications

Animal breeding is a process that is being used from many years ago. In the earlier days, the breeders use to increase the qualities in the animals by using breeding and other methods. But by the invention of the molecular techniques, it is become easier to manipulate any animal and to enhance the traits or different qualities in the animals. In this regard, different methods have used these methods are discussed in this article. The animal transgenesis is used for different purposes such as in research purposes, like organ transplant source for humans, as protein extraction sources, as drug extraction process, in hormones production, and in many other purposes.

Keywords: Transgene, Transgenic animal, Microinjection, Transposons.

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