Carolina Diaz

Period 3
12/10/2015
research #4

DNA technology is used with DNA molecules from two different species that will
insert into the host to produce new genetic mixtures that are going to achieve great
medical value. The main focus on genetics is genes, the main idea of this laboratory
experiment is to have a control variable and manipulate the gene. It is simple to isolate
DNA from a variety of cells, but finding the exact gene inside the DNA it is very difficult,
there are millions of genes. Each human cell contains about 2 meters of DNA. Even a
small about will contain kilometers of DNA. Recombinant DNA technology has made is
possible to isolate one gene or any other specific segment of DNA, helping researchers to
determine its nucleotide sequence, also study from that transcript.
A clone is a group that comes from one specific organism; it has the same DNA
sequences. This means that anything that is clones will be genetically identical because it
is being produced by identical daughter cells in meiosis or mitosis. This kind of
procedure is being carried by inserting a DNA fragment into a small DNA molecule and
then allowing a molecule to divide inside unicellular organism such as bacterium. This
modicum replication molecule is called a DNA vector; the most frequently used vectors
are plasmid, viruses, and also yeast cells. But Plasmids are not chunks of the main
cellular genomes, they are well and capable of carrying out genes that will provide the
host cell with helpful assets, has drug resistant ,mating ability, and toxin productions.

They are small and very easily manipulated experimentally, carry DNA thats is going to
be sliced.
This type of technology has led to amazing discoverers about diagnostic
procedures that have been very helpful in medicine and forensics. In medicine, these
procedures are used in counseling prospective parents that will have a child with
particular disease, also helps prediction of disease in the fetus. They look for specific
DNA fragments that are located in close proximity to the gene that causes the disease of
concern. The fragments, called restriction fragments length polymorphism, frequently
serve as effective genetic makers. In forensics, DNA fragments called variables
number tandem repeats, which are highly variables between individuals, re supposed to
produce what is called a DNA fingerprint A DNA fingerprint can be used to determine
if blood or any body flues left at the scene of the crime.
Lastly, recombinants DNA procedures have been used to covert bacteria into
factories for the purpose of proteins, this technics is very helpful because it prepares
large amounts of protein for basic research but producing valuable proteins for medical
use. Another method to producing proteins recombinant DNA technology is to introduce
the desired gene into the genome of an animal; made in a very specific wat that protein is
the put into the animals milk.

Reference
"Recombinant DNA Technology | Genetics." Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
Encyclopedia Britannica. Web. 9 Dec. 2015.