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In this debate I will explain how recombinant DNA technology works its advantages and its disadvantages, I will then draw a conclusion from the evidence and knowledge that I have gathered.
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Recombinant DNA techniques and our society In this debate I will explain how recombinant DNA technology works its advantages and its disadvantages, I will then draw a conclusion from the evidence and knowledge that I have gathered. Deoxyribose nucleic acid or DNA has been modified through selective breeding, artificially since man started to breed plants and cattle. We can now take the DNA of one organism and place it into another, giving the new organism advantages for example resistance to herbicides or pesticides. This is done by very complex techniques. Firstly we need to find the gene that we will be coding for. We do this by using a probe, a shorter single stranded length of DNA; this carries the base pairing for the DNA that we are looking for. The probe is labelled with a fluorescent or radioactive marker. When the marker is added to the DNA under the correct conditions,...
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