Dr Alison Woollard introduces a widely used genetic engineering technique – the copying and pasting of the gene encoding green fluorescent protein (GFP) from one organism to another. In this example the GFP gene from jellyfish has been transferred into nematode worms. GFP fluoresces in the muscle cells of this worm because the GFP gene is being switched on when the muscle protein gene is also switched on.
Keywords: genes, GFP, gene expression
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