Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 18, Problem 22P
Scientists now routinely use CRISPR/Cas9 to make defined deletions of a gene that can remove several kb of DNA from the genome. This method is possible even in cells defective in homologous recombination, as long as the cells can still perform nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ).
| a. | How could researchers make such deletions? |
| b. | A GM animal that may be approved for human consumption by the time this book is published is a “supermuscly” pig made by inactivation of the myostatin gene. During normal development, Myostatin protein prevents the overgrowth of muscles. Given your answer to part (a), how could the supermuscly pig have been generated? |
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Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
Ch. 18 - Match each of the terms in the left column to the...Ch. 18 - Mice are usually gray, but a mouse geneticist has...Ch. 18 - Sometimes, genes transferred into the mouse genome...Ch. 18 - In mice, a group of so-called Hox genes encode...Ch. 18 - The fly eyes shown in Fig. 18.7 are malformed...Ch. 18 - This problem concerns a technique called enhancer...Ch. 18 - Fish and other organisms that live in the Arctic...Ch. 18 - a. Describe two ways you could potentially make a...Ch. 18 - Figure 18.6 shows a picture of Glofish ,...Ch. 18 - Some people are concerned about the possible...
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