OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
GENETICS
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Question
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Bacteria that can help clean up oil spills were created by ____
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selective breeding
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cloning
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genetic engineering
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cells that produce insulin
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Pseudomonas putida is a bacterium that is used for scavenging of oil spills by digesting hydrocarbons of crude oil. Pseudomonas is a gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria. It is useful because of its ability to decompose a variety of organic compounds.
Detailed explanation-2: -Naturally occurring hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria play an important role in breaking down oil in the event of a spill. Since the mid-1990s a number of these bacteria have been isolated, such as Alcanivorax and Marinobacter.
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