NEETZoologyBiotechnology and Its Applications
What happens when human insulin is not available?
Options
- AUse insulin from other animals
- BGrow bacteria to produce insulin
- CElicit an immune response in the human body
- DNothing can be done
Correct answer
A. Use insulin from other animals
Step-by-step solution
Management of adult-onset diabetes is possible by taking insulin at regular time intervals. What would a diabetic patient do if enough human- insulin was not available? If you discuss this, you would soon realise that one would have to isolate and use insulin from other animals. Would the insulin isolated from other animals be just as effective as that secreted by the human body itself and would it not elicit an immune response in the human body? Now, imagine if bacterium were available that could make human insuli