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What is a transgenic crop? Which plant is used to produce blood anti-coagulant protein? What is this protein called?

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The crops that contain genes that are inserted artificially to obtain desired characters are known as transgenic crops. The genes that are inserted can be of different species also.

Plants like vanilla grass, sweet grass, tonka bean etc. contains an organic substance called coumarin that acts as anti-coagulant.


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