Why Can a Person Who Is Unable to Produce Insulin

question 6

Multiple Choice

Why can a person who is unable to produce insulin be successfully treated with insulin derived from genetically modified bacteria?

• A)Typical bacterial insulin is exactly the same as human insulin.
• B)The gene that produces insulin in humans was inserted into the bacteria where it continues to produce human insulin.
• C)The insulin-producing gene of bacteria was altered to have the same base sequence as the human counterpart and now produces the human version of insulin.
• D)Bacterial insulin is similar enough to human insulin to serve the same purpose.

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