DNA ALTERATIONS:

DNA: deoxyribonucleic acid

• a self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms
• the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.
• the fundamental and distinctive qualities of something, especially when regarded as unchangeable

MANY THINGS HAVE QUALITIES IN WHICH THEY NATURALLY GLOW IN THE DARK

DUE TO RECENT EXPERIMENTS

ALLOWING US TO MAKE IT A POSSIBILITY TO MAKE GLOW IN THE DARK SPECIMENS

KOREAN SCIENTIST LEE BYEONG-CHUN LED AN EXPERIMENT

RUBY PUPPY – RUPPY FOR SHORT – THE WORLD’S FIRST TRANSGENIC DOG

LEE THEN LED A SECOND EXPERIMENT A YEAR LATER ON:

TEGON HAD A BIT DIFFERENT RESULTS FROM RUPPY

• Tegon’s fluorescent protein can be turned on or off with a drug – they just add it to the dog’s food
• Instead of glowing red as Ruppy had, Tegon’s fluorescent protein glows green

THE EXPERIMENTS WERE PREFORMED BY:

• Taking the nucleus of a skin cell
• Adding the fluorescent protein gene to the nucleus
• Then swapping out a nucleus for a modified one
• The egg was left to divide in a petri dish for a few hours
• Then it was implanted into a surrogate mother

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BY: CHRISTINE E. SLATER