Scientists hope to achieve higher levels with better promoters and transit peptides. A similar application of biotechnology involves altering the biopolymers that are synthesized in cotton plants. By introducing the PHB gene into cotton, plants with altered cotton fibers can be created. In this way, entirely new types of cotton can be produced, potentially leading to plants with novel and useful properties. Moreover, since genes are organized in the same way in all living things, genes can be moved from one organism to another, independent of barriers to genetic crossing.
Genes contain the information that controls how biological organisms look and act.
Genes are composed of DNA and are organized in the same way in all living things. One way to think of genes DNA is as videotape. Like videotape, DNA is organized in a long, linear format. In the case of videotape, this means going from magnetic to electric and then finally to visual. For DNA, this means going from DNA to RNA and then fianlly to protein.