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Banting and Best successfully purified insulin from the pancreas of

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Guinea pig
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Dog
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Cow
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Buffalo
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Solution

The correct option is B Dog
In their experiment, Banting and Best removed the pancreas from a dog. Its level of blood glucose rose and it became weak as it developed diabetes. These scientists isolated the hormone insulin from the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas by various processes and purified it.
Thus the correct answer is option B.

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