Which of the following organisms is used in the production of human insulin by genetic engineering?

Escherichia coli

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Agrobacterium tumefaciens

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Bacillus thuringiensis

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Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Solution

The correct option is A Escherichia coli
Genetically engineered insulin or humulin can be produced by inserting the human gene of insulin into a plasmid isolated from E. coli bacterium and then production of a number of copies or clones of that recombinant gene by insertion of the recombinant gene into another E. coli bacterium.

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