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Human insulin is being commericially produced from a transgenic species of 

  • Escherichia

  • Mycobacterium 

  • Rhizobium

  • Rhizobium


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Escherichia

In 1983 an American company Eli Lily produced the first genetically engineered insulin by first synthesizing two DNA sequences corresponding to A and B insulin chains. The two DNA sequences or genes were made to fuse wit plasmids of Escherichia coli and alter allowed to form insulin chains.

Rhizobium is a Gram-negative, aerobic, motile, non-spore forming symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium. It is an acute bacterial infection of the lungs lymph and meninges. 

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is known as Baker's Yeast and Saccharomyces ellipsoids is wine yeast a these are used in baking and brewing industry respectively.

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The 'blue baby' syndrome results from

  • excess of chloride

  • methaemoglobin

  • excess of dissolved oxygen

  • excess of dissolved oxygen


Ascaris is characterised by 

  • the absence of true coelom but the presence of metamerism

  • the presence of neither true coelom nor metamerism

  • the presence of true coelom but the absence of metamerism

  • the presence of true coelom but the absence of metamerism


If you suspect major deficiency of antibodies in a person, to which of the following would you look for confirmatory evidence?

  • Serum albumins

  • Serum globulins

  • Fibrinogen in the plasma

  • Fibrinogen in the plasma


A person showing unpredictable moods, outbursts of emotion, quarrelsome behaviour and conflicts with others is suffering from

  • schizophrenia

  • borderline personality disorder (BPD)

  • mood disorders

  • mood disorders


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