NEET Biology question

Production of a human protein in bacteria in genetic engineering is possible because:

(A)Bacterial cell can carry out the RNA splicing reactions
(B)The human chromosome can replicate in bacterial cell
(C)The mechanism of gene regulation is identical in humans and bacteria
(D)The genetic code is universalCorrect

Answer: (D)

Solution

Bacteria cannot splice introns, human chromosomes do not replicate inside bacteria, and gene regulation mechanisms differ substantially between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, whereas the genetic

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