NEET 2008 · Class 12

Biotechnology and its Applications

Human insulin is being commercially produced from a transgenic species of (2008)

  1. (A)Rhizobium
  2. (B)Saccharomyces
  3. (C)Escherichia
  4. (D)Mycobacterium

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Verbatim line

In 1983, Eli Lilly an American company prepared two DNA sequences corresponding to A and B, chains of human insulin and introduced them in plasmids of *E. coli* to produce insulin chains.

Chapter
Biotechnology and its Applications
Section
10.2.1 Genetically Engineered Insulin
Page
5
Words matched
32 of 32

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6667, emb=1.0, combined=0.8667). Verified: high — The span explicitly states that human insulin was produced by introducing DNA sequences into plasmids of E. coli, which directly corresponds to the correct answer 'Escherichia' (the genus name for E. coli).

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