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Concerning understanding diseases, discuss the importance of transgenic animal models.

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Transgenic animal models are genetically modified animals utilized to study the functions of specific genes, chemicals, or proteins in the context of health and disease. Transgenic animals can serve as models to understand the progression of various diseases in humans. Transgenic models exist for many human diseases like cancer, cystic fibrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and Alzheimer’s. These animals can be observed to understand the causative gene for a particular disease. This can help in devising suitable treatments for some particular diseases.

 

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