Genetic engineering

• What is genetic engineering?

  The insertions of a gene into an organism genome so it synthesises a specific protein to achieve a desired characteristic.
• What are the steps of genetic engineering?

  1.Desired gene is cut from another organism DNA using enzymes.

  2.Gene inserted into a vector eg. bacteria, plasmid or virus.

  3.Vector inserts genes into cells of another organism early in development.

  4.Organisms develop with desired characteristics due to every cell synthesising that specific protein.
• why is genetic engineering is important to do during early development?

  so its fully prominent.
• what are the enzymes used in genetic engineering and what do they do?

  ligase enzyme: joins them together

  Restriction enzyme: cut out specific genes, also cut open places where they‘d fit.