Question
Question: Do you Know the likely fate of a piece of DNA, which is somehow transferred into an alien organism?...
Do you Know the likely fate of a piece of DNA, which is somehow transferred into an alien organism?
Solution
DNA is the genetic information in our body. It stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. It contains hereditary material which gets transferred from one generation to another generation. DNA is usually residing in a compatible structure inside the nucleus in the cell. The proteins which hold the DNA compact structure are histone octamer proteins.
Complete answer:
An alien piece of DNA is referred to a foreign piece of DNA which is to be altered in order to insert genes of choice for using it in recombinant technologies. The piece of DNA which is used to be altered is needed to be ligated with vectors.
In order to transfer the choice of DNA into an alien organism the piece DNA is to be ligated with vectors as because with vectors it can provide millions and as number of copies one can want as vector binds the inserted genes and it does not let the gene of choice get damaged halfway.
Without vectors getting ligated into the piece of DNA it cannot be altered into copies of new transgenic DNA. This is the reason why it needs to be ligated with vectors.
The alteration of genes is being done for culturing new varieties of genes of interest, for genes to be more resistant, disease free. The alien piece of DNA which gets altered is also needed to identify before inserting vectors or any other factor. It should be a high-quality piece of gene which should be free from any gene defects, the strand from which that particular gene is extracted out should also be defects free, no mutation should be seen.
Note:
As we discussed about the fate of alien DNA, these techniques are being used in a part of biology which is called biotechnology. Biotechnology is the field of science where genes of interest are being isolated to form new variants of transgenic animals or genes which are being used for the development or treating any genetic defects with replacing the new recombinant DNA.