Question

Explain the role of transgenic animals in the production of biological products.

Answer 1

Hint: The transgenic organisms are those, which are not present naturally in nature, they are formed by humans, by the help of genetic engineering, in this process the desired animal chromosomes are manipulated and in the desired form to obtain desired products.

Complete answer:
> The transgenic animals are those animals whose genetic material (chromosomes), have been manipulated by insertion of foreign DNA, by deletion or alteration of genes in the DNA segment. These artificial cultivate animals are used in many areas such as production of human resources such as food, fibre, testing of animals in lab to know the role of medicine or vaccine and many more areas.
> Certain animal chromosome are manipulated to increase the production of resources such a transgenic cow, to increase the production of milk or dairy product,
> Transgenic mice used to test the drugs and vaccine.
> Transgenic spider to get the fibre.
> Transgenic pig, cattle or poultry birds to increase the production of meat-based food.
> Humans not only manipulate the animal but also manipulate the plants and microbes too. They develop a variety of transgenic plant species in food crops, to increase the food production such as wheat, rice, brinjal, tomato mango and other transgenic variety of plants such as BT cotton and tobacco, to get the fibre and tobacco respectively.
> Microbes are also manipulated to get the antibiotic for the formation of vaccines.

Note: Transgenic organism is also called genetically modified organism (GMO) these organisms not only benefiting the human but also threaten the nature and its natural grown organism, they replace the natural biodiversity and later the ecosystem and transgenic organism may be used in the war against their enemy.