Topic 8C.2/3 Drugs from GM Organisms/Microarrays and Bioinformatics

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growth hormone (GH)

the hormone secreted by the pituitary gland which stimulates growth

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somatotrophin

another name for growth hormone

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transgenic plants

plants which have been genetically modified to produce proteins from another organism

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transgenic animals

animals which have been genetically modified to produce proteins from another organism, often a human being

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microarray

a very useful laboratory tool which allows scientists to detect thousands of active genes at the same time

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hybridisation

the process by which labelled DNA samples bind to the matching DNA probes on a microarray slide

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bioinformatics

the development of the software and computing tools needed to organise and analyse large amounts of raw biological data (eg. the results from microarray analysis of DNA)

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