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Transgenic animals are those animals that carry foreign genes or animals that have had their DNA manipulated to possess and express an extra foreign gene. The potential of the technology has also made it possible to consider employing animals like rats, rabbits, cattle, swine, etc., in manufacture of biomolecules or organ donors. Some benefits of transgenetic animals are:
(a) Vaccine safety
(b) Chemical safety testing
(c ) Study of diseases
(d) Normal physiology and development.
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