NEET Biology question
Which of the following statements are false? I. Insulin for curing diabetes used to be extracted from the pancreas of slaughtered pig and cattle II. Animal insulin is slightly different from human insulin III. Animal insulin causes some undesirable side effects such as allergy IV. Bacteria cannot be made to synthesise insulin directly from the human insulin gene because of the presence of introns in it
Answer: (D)
Solution
All four statements are actually factually correct: insulin was historically extracted from slaughtered pig/cattle pancreas, this animal insulin does differ slightly from human insulin and can cause allergic side
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