![]() Normally insulin is produced in the pancreas, but in people with type 1 diabetes there is a problem with insulin production.To help explain the process of genetic engineering we have taken the example of insulin, a protein that helps regulate the sugar levels in our blood. For example, genetic engineering can be used to produce plants that have a higher nutritional value or can tolerate exposure to herbicides.Genetic engineering can be applied to any organism, from a virus to a sheep.Genetic engineering is used by scientists to enhance or modify the characteristics of an individual organism.It may also mean extracting DNA from another organism’s genome and combining it with the DNA of that individual. ![]() This may mean changing one base pair (A-T or C-G), deleting a whole region of DNA, or introducing an additional copy of a gene.Genetic engineering, sometimes called genetic modification, is the process of altering the DNA in an organism’s genome. ![]()
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