HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
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Question
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Which technology below would probably be the most important to a person who had diabetes and had to take insulin every day?
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testing parents for genetic disorders before they have children
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engineering fruits and vegetables that resist insects and other pests
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developing ways to identify criminals through DNA fingerprinting
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using recombinant DNA to produce human hormones from bacteria
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Recombinant insulin has a superior level of purity and consistent quality compared with semisynthetic insulin.
Detailed explanation-2: -An American company named Eli Lilly in 1983, prepared two DNA sequences corresponding to A and B chains of human insulin and introduced them in plasmids of E. coli to produce insulin chains. Chains A and B were produced separately, extracted and combined by creating disulphide bonds to form human insulin.
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