Q. Human insulin is being commercially produced from a transgenic species of
A) Saccharomyces
B) Escherichia
C) Mycobacterium
D) Rhizobium
Explanation
[Solution from source] Eli Lilly produced human insulin (1983) by inserting DNA for the A and B chains into plasmids of E. coli and then joining the chains. Saccharomyces has also been used, but the standard NCERT answer is Escherichia coli. Answer (2).
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