The majority of human insulin is made through ? GMO Bacteria ? GMO animals ? GMO plants
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The insulin used to treat people with diabetes is commonly produced by intserting the DNA sequence for human insulin into a bacterium. The insulin the bacterium produces using that sequence is then harvest. In fact DNA sequence from virtually any living organisms could be inserted into a bacterium and the bacterium would be able to use the sequence to make the same proteins that the original organism did. In what way does this provide evidence for evolution
Madhur L.
GMO technology today is an important part of modern biotechnology and is used, among other things, to give bacteria, plants and animals new properties. This is possible by inserting a gene from, for example; a bacterium, into a plant or animal (transgenes) The diagram provided represents some steps in a procedure used in the field of biotechnology: This bacterial cell can now be used to produce: The bacterial gene for insulin that can be inserted into humans Human genes for enzymes that can be inserted into humans Insulin that can be used by humans Enzymes necessary to treat human diseases
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Biotechnology mainly uses (a) GMO (b) Bacteria (c) Virus (d) Animals
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