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STD 12 - 10. biotechnology and its application — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYSTD 12 - 10. biotechnology and its application1 Mark
MCQ
The first human hormone produced by recombinant $DNA$ technology is
  • ✓
    insulin
  • B
    estrogen
  • C
    thyroxin
  • D
    progesterone.
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Answer

Correct option: A.
insulin
a
(a) : The recombinant $DNA$ technological processes have made great impact in the area of health care by mass production of safe and more effective therapeutic drugs. In $1983$, Eli Lily, an American company, first prepared two $DNA$ sequences corresponding to $A$ and $B$ chains of human insulin and introduced them in plasmids of Escherichia coli to produce insulin chains. Chains $A$ and $B$ were produced separately, extracted and combined by creating disulfide bonds to form human insulin (humulin).

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