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What are transgenic bacteria ? Illustrate using any one example.

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When any foreign gene is transferred into genom of bacteria successfully then they are called transgenic bacteria.
For an example when two DNA sequences of human insulin named sequence-A and sequence B are introduced in plasmid of E. coli then these transgenic bacteria produce sequences of insulin.
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