NEET 2010 Biology question

BiologyBiotechnology and Its ApplicationsNEET 2010

Which one of the following is now being commercially produced by biotechnological procedures?

Answer: (1)

Solution

Human insulin (Humulin) is produced commercially by recombinant DNA technology: the genes for the A and B chains (or proinsulin) are introduced into E. coli (first marketed by Eli Lilly in 1983), and the chains are

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