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Weekly Monkey Photo of the Week

ANDi the monkey

This is ANDi. He’s called ANDi because ANDi is the reversed acronym for inserted DNA. ANDi is mostly a Rhesus monkey. I say mostly because ANDi is the first primate to carry a foreign gene. ANDi carries a protein that occurs naturally in jellyfish. This protein causes the jellyfish to glow a fluorescent green color.

The protein does not make ANDi glow in the dark.

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4 Responses to “Weekly Monkey Photo of the Week”

  1. Rebecca Says:
    August 17th, 2003 at 5:08 pm

    ANDi is so cute! He looks like like a little human baby, except hairier!

  2. dj Says:
    September 6th, 2003 at 10:01 pm

    well ive been lookin for a mnkey an thisis thi kind i want where can i get one

  3. Jeffro Says:
    March 25th, 2004 at 1:49 am

    I’m extremely dissapointed that ANDi dose not glow in the dark! Get it sorted or there will be hell to pay!!!!! Poor litlle bugger! :(

  4. Bozwell Says:
    March 25th, 2004 at 1:52 am

    I have see a real life glow in the dark rabbit, it actually glowed unlike your fake monkey!!!!