Question

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

Answer 1

Transgenic animals can serve as models to understand progression of various diseases in human. 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 treatment for a particular disease.