Report on biotechnology / Animal Procedures Committee.

  • Great Britain. Animal Procedures Committee
Date:
2001
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Credit: Report on biotechnology / Animal Procedures Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pronucleus Selective breeding Somatrophin Stereotypy Superovulation Taxon Totipotency Transgenic animal Welfare Zygote Nucleus in an oocyte (q.v.) from mother or father (via sperm) before they fuse - they only have one set of chromosomes (haploid) Ribonucleic acid, which translates the information contained in genes. RNA can also be the hereditary material in certain viruses. The use of organisms exhibiting desired characteristics to produce offspring which also bear those characteristics, as practised in farm animals for hundreds of years. Peptide (qv) hormone which promotes growth within the body. A repeated, relatively invariate sequence of movements which has no obvious function. Release of larger than natural number of unfertilised oocytes (q.v.) from an ovary after hormone treatment General term for a taxonomic group whatever its rank (ranging through species, genus, family, order, class, phylum etc) Ability of a (stem) cell to produce all tissues (c.f. multipotent: ‘many’ tissues) An animal that has been Genetically Modified (q.v.) The state of an individual as regards its attempts to cope with its environment. A fertilised oocyte (q.v.) before it undergoes cleavage -oOo- a1