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NEET 2008
Exam
NEET
Year
2008
Subject
Zoology
Chapter
Biotechnology and Its Applications

NEET 2008 · Zoology · Biotechnology and Its Applications

Human insulin is being commercially produced from a transgenic...

Human insulin is being commercially produced from a transgenic species of

Options

  1. ASaccharomyces
  2. BEscherichia
  3. CMycobacterium
  4. DRhizobium

Correct answer

B. Escherichia

Step-by-step solution

Eli Lilly was the first American Company to launch genetically engineered insulin called as humulin. They prepared two DNA sequences by reverse transcription of their m-RNA and linked them separately with the modified plasmid of Escherichia coli.
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