What are transgenic bacteria? Illustrate using any one example.

Explanation

Transgenic bacteria contain foreign gene that is intentionally introduced into its genome. They are manipulated to express the desirable gene for the production of various commercially important products. Eg. : E.coli. In the plasmid of E.coli. the two DNA sequences corresponding to A and B chain of human Insulin are inserted so as to produce human Insulin chains. Later on these chains are extracted from E.coli and combined to form human insulin.