Science-Genetically modified animal

Aim: making a GMO animal example using a clay

What is GMO?

A GMO or genetically modified organism is a plant, animal, microorganism or other organisms whose genetic makeup has been modified in a laboratory using genetic engineering or transgenic technology.  Genetically modified animals are animals that are genetically modified for a specific variation of purposes including drugs, enhancing field, increase resistance to disease and etc.

Processing

The process of genetically engineered animal or plant is a slow, boring time consuming, and expensive process. First, genetic engineers must to set apart or cut off the gene they want to insert it to the organism. This can be taken from cell, gene, or Artificial genes synthesis known as DNA printing (a method that is used to create artificial genes in the laboratory). If the gene or the donor organism genome(the genetic material of the organism) has been studied it will be may accessible from a genetic library. The genetic library is a collection of DNA fragments that are stored and breed specimens of a plant or animal. There are two types of genetic library, cDNA library and Genomic library. 

cDNA library represents a collection of only the only genes that are encoded or convert into proteins by an organism. A Genomic library is a collection is a set of DNA clones that contains the entire DNA content of a genome fro which library was obtained or received.

Then the gene is then combined with other gene elements like promoter, terminator and selectable marker. The promoter is a sequence of DNA needed to turn a gene on or off. Terminator is a genetic part that usually occurs at the end of the gene and causes transcription(first several steps in gene expression) to stop. A selectable marker is a gene introduced into a cell that confers a trait suitable for selective breeding. 

Equipment: Clay (any colours)

Method of making a glofish out of clay

1. Get clay.

2. Shaping the clay into an animal 

3. Do detail on the clay model.

4. Leave the clay model to dry.

5. Done.

Here is an example of a GMO animal called GlowFish. GloFish is a patented brand of genetically modified zebrafish with bright fluorescent colours, it was created to show of presence of toxins in the water and it was the first genetically modified animal.

 GMO is the result of the process from the GMO of one species that is extracted and forced into a gene of an unrelated plant or animal. The example of a GMO animal is GloFish, a scientist split a gene from a jellyfish and add it to a fish DNA to make it Glow. DNA is a  The reason why they are doing this because they were trying to develop a fish that could detect pollution.

Evaluation: 
Here is my completed work. I am proud of my work but I think I should make it more pretty or creative. If you want to make a model of an animal using clay, I would recommend you to use a wire to make it more stand out. I would also recommend you to use colourful clay and sculpt it using scissors. If I want to learn more about the Genetically modified organism, I'm gonna research about more GMO like plants.