Allergens

First of all Bt is dominant. Second, if you are told to research side effects on the crop itself, allergens are irrelevant. You should look up insertional mutagenesis drawbacks (random) that can potentially cause gene knock outs with overall effects anywhere from explicit ...

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... engineering of crops and want to know what impacts mutations of genes have on genetically modified crops? for example, can mutations form toxins/allergens or amplify toxins/allergens? what effects should i be researching? iam trying to find things but cant. names, principals or cases or experiments ...

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I think I may have found the answer. http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1908.htm Here's an excerpt Pathophysiology: The major food allergens are water-soluble glycoproteins (molecular weight [MW] 10,000-60,000) that are resistant to heat, acid, and enzymes. The gastrointestinal tract is ...

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Not sure for #2. For #1 - it's possible, but very unlikely. Antigens and allergens are molecules, and pathogens are things like bacteria and viruses. Prions, infectious proteins, could conceivably be all three. Antigens and allergens both set off responses, ...

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... have been based upon her experience. She told me that the body has the ability to produce proteins that serve to encapsulate certain bacterium and allergens to protect the body from them. They can take the form of little globs, sacks, cysts, and sometimes protein fibers. She told me that there ...

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