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What are transgenic bacteria? Thustrate using any one example.

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Transgenic bacteria are one that carries a transgence or a foreign gene of interest introduced using recombinant DNA technology. e.g bacteria carrying the genes for human insulin. In 1983 , Eli lilly an American company prepared two DNA introduced corresponding to A and B , chains of human insulin and introduced them in plasmids of E. coli to produce insulin chains. Chains A and B were produced separately,extracted and combined by creating disulfide bonds to from Human insulin.
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