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With respect to understanding diseases, discuss the importance of transgenic animal models.

• Transgenic animals are used as modle organism for the production of desired products.


• They are used to study diseases like cancer, Alzhimer and their treatment.


• In future it can be used to grow human organs for transplant purposes.


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