NEET2008ZoologyBiotechnology and Its ApplicationsActual
Human insulin is being commercially produced from a transgenic species of
Options
- AEscherichia
- BMycobacterium
- CRhizobium
- DSaccharomyces
Correct answer
A. Escherichia
Step-by-step solution
In 1983 an American company Eli Lily produced the first genetically engineered insulin by first synthesizing two DNA sequences corresponding to A and B insulin chains. The two DNA sequences or genes were made to fuse with plasmids of Escherichia coli and later allowed to form insulin chains. Rhizobium is a Gram negative, aerobic, motile, non-spore forming symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium. It can fix nitrogen only when they are present inside the root nodules. Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes tuberculosis in man