NEET 2019 Biology question
Which of the following features of genetic code does allow bacteria to produce human insulin by recombinant DNA technology?
Answer: (3)
Solution
The genetic code is nearly universal: the same codon specifies the same amino acid in almost all organisms, from bacteria to humans. So when the human insulin gene is introduced into E. coli, the bacterium reads the human codons correctly and synthesises human
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