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Molecular Genetics: In Vitro Mutagenisis 217 Views
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In this video from our course on molecular genetics, learn all about in vitro mutagenesis.
In this video from our course on molecular genetics, learn all about in vitro mutagenesis.
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- 00:13
We're talking biology with Dr. Ruth Tennen, and we're going to talk now about biotechnology.
- 00:21
This is kind of flowing in the line of thought here. What is in vitro mutagenesis?
- 00:28
So, in vitro means "in a test tube." And mutagenesis means "making mutations."
- 00:34
So it's a way of making mutations outside of a cell.
- 00:37
And so you could imagine, you notice that people who have a certain type of cancer have a certain mutation and you want to study that in cells...
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- 00:42
So you would take the DNA, mutate it in a test tube, put it back into a cell, and then kind of study the function.
- 00:51
At a banal level, we had "test tube babies," where we combined sperm and an egg in a test tube, and then put it back in a woman's womb...
- 01:01
And IPO happened nine months later...so is that...?
- 01:06
So that -- the in vitro part is the same. In that case, you're not really mutagenizing anything...
- 01:12
But you could imagine that if your embryo had some genetic defect...you would be able to do that -- you could wash it essentially...
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