4. In your studies with mice, you have sequenced a piece of wild-type DNA and it...

4. In your studies with mice, you have sequenced a piece of wild-type DNA and it clearly contains a gene, but you do not know what this gene does. Therefore, to investigate further, you would like to create a transgenic mouse to learn more about the phenotypic qualities this gene confers. What kind of transgenic mouse would allow you to correctly determine any phenotypes that depend on this gene’s function? How would you go about making such a mouse?

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One of the widely used method to create a transgenic mice is pronucleus method. In this technique, a microinjection containing gene of interest (transgene) is directly injected into the male pronucleus of a fertilized eggs. The transgene is capable of incorporating inside the nucleus of eggs via process of recombination. The fertilized eggs are allowed to undergo multiple divisions until they reach blastocyst stage and become embryos. These embryos are injected into the uterus of foster mother which delievers pups after 20 to 25 days. Then, a piece of tissue from tail or ear is derived to extract DNA which is amplified and genotyped to determine the function of the transgene.

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