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Transgenic animals

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Transgenic animals are those which can grow faster, yield more milk, lay bigger eggs and so on. They are produced by combining traditional breeding with gene technology, which yield encouraging results. It involves selecting, isolating, purifying and transferring beneficial genes of one species to another to harvest a beneficial effect. These animals are the transfer of the beneficial gene (genes) developed. The gene that is transferred is kno transgene. The transgene is transferred by using one of the several methods of gene transfer in practice.
Microinjection is found to be most suitable for animal cells.
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