BIOL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rare Disease, Personalized Medicine, Haplotype
21 Dec 2017
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Biol 1010 lecture 7 homework: define and explain: Biopharmaceutical: a drug that acts in the same manner as a compound that occurs naturally in the body. They can be produced by microscopic and macroscopic organisms. Transgenic animal: an animal that had a foreign gene deliberately inserted into its genome. Biopharming: process of genetically modifying plants and animals so that they produce substances that may be used as pharmaceuticals. Knockout mouse: a mouse whose dna has been genetically modified so that it does not express particular proteins. Bioethics: the ethics of medical and biological research. Groups of 2-7 nucleotide pairs or base pairs that are repeated several times in succession. A medical treatment which replaces an enzyme that is deficient or absent in the body. Usually done with an intravenous infusion of a solution containing the enzyme. Single nucleotide mutations in dna sequences that vary from person to person. Represent one of the most common examples of genetic variation.
