B iotechnology provides new tools for improving human health and animal health and welfare and increasing livestock productivity. Biotechnology improves the food we eat - meat, milk and eggs. Biotechnology can improve an animal’s impact on the environment. And biotechnology enhances ability to detect, treat and prevent diseases.
Just like other assisted reproduction techniques such as artificial insemination, embryo transfer and in vitro fertilization, livestock cloning improves animal breeding programs allowing farmers and ranchers to produce healthier offspring, and therefore producer healthier, safer and higher quality foods more consistently.
What Is Animal Biotechnology?
Animals are playing a growing role in the advancement of biotechnology, as well as increasingly benefiting from biotechnology. Combining animals and biotechnology results in advances in four primary areas:
1. Advances in human health
2. Improved animal health and welfare
3. Enhancements to animal products
4. Environmental and conservation benefits
Animal biotechnology includes all animals: livestock, poultry, fish, insects, companion animals and laboratory animals. Applications developed through research have led to the emergence of three scientific agricultural animal biotechnology sectors:
1. Animal genomics
2. Animal cloning
3. Genetic engineering of animals
The Technology Sectors in the Animal Biotechnology Industry
Animal genomics:
Genomics defines and characterizes the complete genetic makeup of an animal. By understanding the genomes of animals, we can better understand the basis for disease resistance, disease susceptibility, weight gain, and determinants of nutritional value.
Animal cloning:
Using somatic cell nuclear transfer, livestock breeders can create an exact genetic copy of an existing animal – essentially an identical twin. Cloning does not manipulate the animal’s genetic makeup nor change an animal’s DNA: it is simply another form of sophisticated assisted reproduction.
Transgenic animals :
A transgenic animal is one which has had genetic material from another species added to its DNA. This breakthrough technology allows scientists to precisely transfer beneficial genes from one species t
What Is Animal Biotechnology?
Animals are playing a growing role in the advancement of biotechnology, as well as increasingly benefiting from biotechnology. Combining animals and biotechnology results in advances in four primary areas:
1. Advances in human health
2. Improved animal health and welfare
3. Enhancements to animal products
4. Environmental and conservation benefits
Animal biotechnology includes all animals: livestock, poultry, fish, insects, companion animals and laboratory animals. Applications developed through research have led to the emergence of three scientific agricultural animal biotechnology sectors:
1. Animal genomics
2. Animal cloning
3. Genetic engineering of animals
The Technology Sectors in the Animal Biotechnology Industry
Animal genomics:
Genomics defines and characterizes the complete genetic makeup of an animal. By understanding the genomes of animals, we can better understand the basis for disease resistance, disease susceptibility, weight gain, and determinants of nutritional value.
Animal cloning:
Using somatic cell nuclear transfer, livestock breeders can create an exact genetic copy of an existing animal – essentially an identical twin. Cloning does not manipulate the animal’s genetic makeup nor change an animal’s DNA: it is simply another form of sophisticated assisted reproduction.
Transgenic animals :
A transgenic animal is one which has had genetic material from another species added to its DNA. This breakthrough technology allows scientists to precisely transfer beneficial genes from one species t
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