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The first human hormone produced by recombinant DNA technology is

A
insulin
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thryoxin
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C
estrogen
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D
progesterone
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Solution

The correct option is A insulin
The first human hormone produced by recombinant DNA technology is insulin. 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 E.coli to produce insulin chains.

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