What is genetic modification?

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The change in the genes of organism using biotechnology techniques is called genetic modification.

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Description : What are the problems we could face by using this genetic engineering tools ?

Last Answer : By using genetic engineering tools, all the plants and crops are exposed to too many pesticides and herbicides, they are over used to maintain it fresh and to retain the taste of the food. Traditionally farmers avoid using so many pesticides for crops, they use them liberally.

Description : Why do scientists use bacteria in genetic engineering?

Last Answer : Bacterial cell is very simple and easy to handle for the scientists. It is easy for the scientists to isolate plasmid from a bacterial cell and attach a gene with it. Another reason is its fast rate of reproduction.

Description : What is genetic engineering?

Last Answer : It is an advanced technique of biotechnology in which scientist select and isolate the useful gene from one organism (donor organism) and insert it into another organism usually bacterium.

Description : What is genetic testing?

Last Answer : It is one of the latest biotechnological techniques used for genetic diagnosis of inherited diseases. It involves the direct examination of DNA molecule. It is also used to determine a child’s paternity or a person’s ancestry.

Description : What is an agretope ?

Last Answer : The region of an antigenic peptide, which binds to MCH molecule, is known as agretope.

Description : What is agglutination ?

Last Answer : Clumping of particles or cells is called agglutination.

Description : What is an agglutinin ?

Last Answer : A substance can mediate clumping of the cells or particles.

Description : What is adoptive transfer ?

Last Answer : The ability to participate in the immune response by the process of transplantation of cells is adoptive transfer.

Description : What is an abzyme ?

Last Answer : It is a monoclonal antibody, which has catalytic activity.

Description : How viral load can be measured ?

Last Answer : Viral load is measured by PCR based techniques.

Description : What is the first overt indication of AIDS ?

Last Answer : The first overt indication of AIDS may be infection with the fungus Candida albicans, which causes sores in the mouth and in women vulvovaginal yeast infection is formed that will not respond to the treatment given.

Description : What does HAART do ?

Last Answer : HAART will lower the viral load and improves the health of the patients who are suffering with AIDS.

Description : What is the current treatment given to AIDS ?

Last Answer : Current treatment given to AIDS is HAART (highly active anti retroviral therapy).It is a combination therapy.

Description : What are major successful vaccines ?

Last Answer : Major successful vaccines are live attenuated and heat killed vaccines.

Description : What do most vaccines function as ?

Last Answer : Most of the vaccines prevent disease but not infection.

Description : What does myeloid immunodeficiency cause ?

Last Answer : Myeloid immunodeficiency causes phagocytic function, which is impaired. Those who are affected with this will suffer with increase in susceptibility to bacterial infection.

Description : What does immunodeficiency results ?

Last Answer : Immunodeficiency results in failure of one or more components of immune system.

Description : What does HIV results ?

Last Answer : HIV results in impairment of immune function by depletion oh CD4+ T cells.

Description : What is the treatment for HIV ?

Last Answer : Anti-retroviral drugs are given. They lower the viral load and gives relief from infection, but it is not permanent it is temporary relief i.e. it cannot cure.

Description : How HIV infection is mainly spread ?

Last Answer : It is mainly spread by sexual contact, blood transfers and from HIV infected mother to child.

Description : What is a provirus ?

Last Answer : It is the DNA representing, the genome of virus that has been integrated into the DNA of the host.

Description : What is a retrovirus ?

Last Answer : It is a class of viruses having RNA genome and reverse transcriptase enzyme within virus cuspid.

Description : How AIDS is caused ?

Last Answer : It is caused by the infection of HIV 1 i.e. human immunodeficiency virus.

Description : What is the full form of AIDS ?

Last Answer : Full form of AIDS is acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome.

Description : Why purified macromolecules are used as vaccines ?

Last Answer : To avoid the risk associated with attenuated and killed whole organism vaccines. 80.Name some purified macromolecules derived from pathogens. They are capsular polysaccharides, inactivated exotoxins and recombinant microbial antigens.

Description : What is a toxoid ?

Last Answer : Inactivating the toxin with formaldehyde is toxoid.

Description : Normally at what age vaccination of children begins ?

Last Answer : Vaccination of children begins at the age of 2 months.

Description : How is active immunity acquired ?

Last Answer : Active immunity is acquired through vaccines, attenuated organisms, toxoid, natural infection, cloned microbial antigens, etc.

Description : How passive immunity is acquired ?

Last Answer : Passive immunity is acquired through natural maternal antibodies, antitoxin, and immunoglobulin.

Description : What happens when cutaneous exposure occurs ?

Last Answer : Cutaneous exposure results in skin lesions.

Description : What happens when gastrointestinal exposure occurs ?

Last Answer : Gastrointestinal exposure results in bloody diarrhea, ulcers in ileum or cecum and sepsis and it is very difficult to diagnosis.

Description : What is the disease caused by influenza ?

Last Answer : A’ subtype H9N2? New strain of human influenza

Description : What is the disease caused by TSE causing agents ?

Last Answer : New variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Description : What is the disease caused by Human herpes virus ?

Last Answer : 8? It is associated with Kaposi sarcoma in AIDS patients.

Description : What is the disease caused by Bartonella henselae ?

Last Answer : Cat scratch disease

Description : What is the disease caused by Legionella pneumophilia ?

Last Answer : Legionnaire’s disease

Description : What is the disease caused by Campylobacter jejuni ?

Last Answer : Enteric diseases

Description : What is the disease caused by Human T-lymphotrophic virus II ?

Last Answer : Hairy cell leukemia

Description : What is the disease caused by Vibrio cholerae 0139 ?

Last Answer : New strain of epidemic cholerae

Description : What is the disease caused by Escherichia coli 0157 ?

Last Answer : H7? Haemorrhagic colitis

Description : What is the disease caused by Human T-lymphotrophic virus-I ?

Last Answer : T-cell lymphoma

Description : What is the disease caused by Encephalitozzon hellem ?

Last Answer : Conjunctivitis, disseminated disease

Description : What is the disease caused by Guanarito virus ?

Last Answer : Venezuelan haemorrhagic fever

Description : What is the disease caused by Helicobacter pylori ?

Last Answer : Peptic ulcers

Description : What is the disease caused by Hantavirus ?

Last Answer : Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome

Description : What is the disease caused by Cryptosporidium parvum ?

Last Answer : Acute chronic diarrhea

Description : What is the disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi ?

Last Answer : Lyme disease

Description : What is the disease caused by Hepatitis E ?

Last Answer : Enteric Non-A, Non-B hepatitis

Description : What is the disease caused by Nipah virus and West Nile virus ?

Last Answer : Encephalitis

Description : What is the disease caused by Influenza A subtype H5N1 ?

Last Answer : Avian influenza