Chapter 26.2, Problem 2CYP

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The difference between a transgenic organism and a cloned organism.

Given:

Though the transgenic organism and a cloned organism all results from the tools of biotechnology, cloned organisms are different from transgenic organism.

Introduction:

Transgenic is a word usually used to describe an animal or plant, or perhaps another organism that has had one or more genes from another cell or organism stably incorporated into its own genome and is capable of passing on these foreign genes on to daughter cells, whereas cloning produces genetically exact copies of organisms.