Hybridoma
Contents
Key Stage 4 Higher
Meaning
A hybridoma is cell made by merging to other cells.
About Hybridomas
- A hybridoma is made when two different cells each have a useful property that, if combined would make an even more useful cells.
- Some hybridomas are used to create antibodies called monoclonal antibodies.
- To produce a hybridoma that makes monoclonal antibodies a lymphocyte, which has been made to produce a particular antibody, is combined with a cell from a tumour, which rapidly reproduces. This is ahybridoma which can reproduce rapidly and creates the antibody.
References
AQA
- Hybridoma cells, page 53, GCSE Biology; The Revision Guide, CGP, AQA
- Hybridoma, page 146, GCSE Biology, CGP, AQA
- Hybridomas, pages 106-109, GCSE Biology; Third Edition, Oxford University Press, AQA
Edexcel
- Hybridoma cells, page 120, GCSE Biology, Pearson, Edexcel
- Hybridoma cells, page 169, GCSE Biology, CGP, Edexcel
- Hybridomas, page 60, GCSE Biology; The Revision Guide, CGP, Edexcel