Suppose that you have just graduated from college and have started working at a biotechnology firm....

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  1. Suppose that you have just graduated from college and havestarted working at a biotechnology firm. Your first job assignmentis to clone the pig gene for the hormone prolactin. Assume that thepig gene for prolactin has not yet been isolated, sequenced, ormapped; however, the mouse gene for prolactin has been cloned, andthe amino acid sequence of mouse prolactin is known. Brieflyexplain two different strategies that you might use to find andclone the pig gene for prolactin.
  1. Describe how the genome of an organism of your choice has beensuccessfully engineered to improve a trait of economic importancein the organism.

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We can use two stratagy 1st at gene level and 2nd at protein level At gene level we can use gene sequence of prolactin from mouse gene and do ncbi blast with whole genome of pig and analysed the    See Answer
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