Who is Ruppy The Dog? by Summer Spagnoli

This is a picture of Ruppy the Dog

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It shows that he is florescent in ultra ray light

Who is Ruppy?

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Ruppy is short for Ruby puppy. He is the first trans genetic dog who happens to be transgenic. His transgenic comes from a certain gene in a Sea Anemone. Ruppy is now a GMO. A GMO stands for a genetic modified organism such as a plant, animal, or any other organism that is genetically modified in a laboratory.

How is he modified?

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Ruppy is cloned beagle from South Korea and he has "cloning fibroblast cells that express a red fluorescent gene produced by sea anemones". He was one of four puppies that were modified in the lab.

What is his purpose and who benefits from Ruppy?

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He was made to be an example of how this would effect human diseases and now encourages the growth of testing other genes within cloned dogs. He was also born in 2005.

The scientist are super affected by his creating because it shows that they are able to use the same technique they used to make him florescent, to maybe try other things.

How was he created?

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Ruppy was made when a lab started out by,"first infecting dog fibroblast cells with a virus that inserted the fluorescent gene into a cell's nucleus. They then transferred the fibroblast's nucleus to another dog's egg cell, with its nucleus removed." So the next step would be to help grow the puppies within the lab making sure they actually grow (There was numerous attempts before but the emboss were never strong enough to survive).

Risks and Benefits?

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Risk
- Over using puppies for lab creation which harms the animals for no reason
- Creating something harmful to humans which would harm us as people because who knows what would happen if we mix two bad things together like we see in movies

Benefits
- Using the animals for research which benefits the people so we can learn how to help humans fight diseases
- Use the animals for research with animal diseases and harmful conditions to see how they adapt. This could benefit both us humans and animals.

Here is all 4 of the Puppies!

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Citations in MLA

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- “Ruppy the Fluorescent Puppy Is World's First Transgenic Dog.” FindingDulcinea, www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2009/april/Ruppy-the-Fluorescent-Puppy-Is-World-s-First-Transgenic-Dog.html.
- Callaway, Ewen. “Fluorescent Puppy Is World's First Transgenic Dog.” New Scientist, 23 Apr. 2009, www.newscientist.com/article/dn17003-fluorescent-puppy-is-worlds-first-transgenic-dog/.
- “What Is a GMO?” Non, www.nongmoproject.org/gmo-facts/what-is-gmo/.