Uses of Genetically modified animals

GM farm animals to:

• increase meat production through rapid growth or leaner animals
• improve the amount and quality of wool
• alter the composition of milk to make better cheese, to reduce intolerance to milk or to produce medicines and neutraceuticals
• increase disease resistance
• reduce pollution from pig manure
• produce strong, spider-silk fibres in goat milk for military use.
  
  
  
  
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  (Useful for UPSC General Studies, APPSC Group 1 Group 2 , Mains Material, Paper 1, Paper 4 Section 1 Section 2 Section 3, ROLE AND IMPACT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA, GENERAL AWARENESS WITH THE MODERN TRENDS IN LIFE SCIENCES, DEVELOPMENT & ENVIRONMENT PROBLEMS)