NEET 2008 Biology question

Human insulin is being commercially produced from a transgenic species of

(1)Saccharomyces
(2)EscherichiaCorrect
(3)Mycobacterium
(4)Rhizobium

Answer: (2)

Solution

Humulin (human insulin) was produced by Eli Lilly (1983) by inserting the human insulin gene (the DNA sequences for the A and B chains, prepared by reverse transcription of mRNA) into plasmids of the

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Question ID VK-090131