Zusammenfassung der Ressource
GLOW FISH TRANSGENIC SPECIES
- PROS
- environmental peaceful, doesn't cause any
harm
- Increases the fish market - (cost about 2-3$ to make and sell 5-6$)
- easy to reproduce because they their decedent would carry that
gene
- can communicate the scientist when water is polluted
- With itself had fetched additional
qualities
- CONS
- Humans aren't allowed to consume
GloFish
- The GloFish cannot survive in cold waters (their habitat is in tropical
waters)
- Risk of exploitation
- Disturbance of genetic information
- The following countries: Australia, Canada and Europe ban the commercial marketing of GloFish
because they're GMOs
- TECHNIQUE
- Glofish are a type of transgenic zebrafish that have been modified through the insertion of a green
fluorescent protein (GFP) gene. There are several GFP genes that code for the different colour phenotype.
- Fluorescent glofish are bred to protect environmental pollutants. Scientists can determine when a
the waterway is contaminated.
- HOW IT WORKS fluorescent colour is produced by a fluorescent protein gene. gene goes into the genome of the
embryo, the developing fish will pass on the same genes to its offspring.