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Tissue Culture techniques.

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DNA Structure

This Youtube video is about Genetic Fingerprinting.

Rice is the main food in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka also export some quantity of rice every year. Last few years that did’nt happen. Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Agriculture is expecting a paddy harvest of 2.7 million MT in the Yala season, which runs from late April to mid September. Around 807,763 hectares of land cultivated in Sri Lanka for paddy, 64% is cultivated in Maha season while 35% is cultivated in Yala season.

Around 879,000 farmer families are engaged in paddy cultivation in Sri Lanka. They are 20% of the country’s population and 32% of the employment. Now most of the farmers are cultivating Genetically improved seeds. If weather is good farmer will get a good yield. Dry weather in harvesting season is necessary. Rain in last season Destroy harvest of over 10000 farmer families.

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Controversies surrounding GM foods and crops commonly focus on human and environmental safety, labeling and consumer choice, intellectual property rights, ethics, food security, poverty reduction, and environmental conservation.
Properties of the genetically modified Crop variety.

Soybeans - Resistant to herbicides
Corn - Resistance to certain pesticides
Sugar - cane Resistance to certain pesticides
Rice - Genetically modified to contain high amounts of
Vitamin A (beta-carotene).

To produce ANDi, reproductive A few hours later, they injected sperm into the oocytes to fertilize them.

Bacteria were the first organisms to be modified in the laboratory, due to their simple genetics. These organisms are now used in a variety of tasks, and are particularly important in producing large amounts of pure human proteins for use in medicine. Genetically modified bacteria are used to produce the protein insulin, to treat diabetes. Similar bacteria have been used to produce clotting factors to treat haemophilia, and human growth hormone to treat various forms of dwarfism. These recombinant proteins are much safer than the products they replaced, since the older products were purified from cadavers and could transmit diseases. Indeed the human-derived proteins caused many cases of AIDS and hepatitis C in haemophilliacs and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease from human growth hormone.

Genetically engineered organism is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. ‘Transgenesis’ uses a tiny needle to inject a piece of DNA into a fertilised egg. The egg then develops inside a surrogate mother. As her young grow up and are mated, future generations may contain this extra piece of DNA as part of their genetic makeup.
Many different animals have been used, including pigs, sheep, poultry, fish and insects. In 2001, ANDi, the first GM monkey was born.

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