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The gene for insulin can be inserted into the bacterial chromosome. The bacteria is then left to multiply normally, which thus produces many copies of the gene and lots of insulin. This is how they produce the insulin used by people who have Diabetes.

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Q: How can a large volume of protein e.g. insulin be produced from a single bacterium?
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What is Single form of bacteria is?

bacterium


Why do the introns have to br removed?

Introns are the non-coding parts of the gene. If you didn't remove introns, the wrong protein may be produced because they allow more than one protein to be produced from a single gene.


What is a single unit of bacteria called?

Bacterium


Is a single celled organism bacterium?

yes


You are a single-celled organism you do not have nucleus you cause diseases in plants and animals What are you?

a bacterium

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What is Single form of bacteria is?

bacterium


Why do the introns have to br removed?

Introns are the non-coding parts of the gene. If you didn't remove introns, the wrong protein may be produced because they allow more than one protein to be produced from a single gene.


What is a single unit of bacteria called?

Bacterium


Does a bacterium has many cells?

No. they are single-celled.


Is a single celled organism bacterium?

yes


Is bacteria a single celled?

possibly. i am one of those people who don't know.


What is the difference between a unicellular and bacterium?

bacterium are prokaryaotic (no nucleus) while unicelluar (possessing a single cell) are eukaryotes. Although they have a nucleus, they are essentially comprised of only a single cell.


Which event occurring in the life cycle of a bacterium most directly involves the replication of DNA?

the bacterium copies its single chromosome


What is the main difference between cow protein in human protein?

One of those phrases contains the letters C, O, and W and the other contains the letters H, U, M, A, and N.The two phrases are, however, similar in that neither of them has any real meaning."Protein" is not a single thing that only differs based on what source it comes from, it's a class of compounds, which may differ wildly in structure or function.It does make sense to talk about, for example. human insulin or bovine insulin; both of them are a type of protein, and one of them is found in people and the other is found in cows (I'll let you guess which is which). However, the differences between these two proteins is not the same as the differences between two other proteins found in the two species, such as bovine serum albumin vs. human serum albumin.To go back to insulin: both bovine and human insulin contain 51 amino acid residues in two separate protein chains, but the bovine version differs from the human version by three substitutions: alanine for threonine at A8, valine for isoleucine at A10, and alanine for threonine at B30. At one time diabetics were treated using cow (or pig, which is even more similar, differing only at B30) insulin, but nowadays it is possible to produce human-identical insulin is produced via fermentation.If you're curious: cat insulin differs from bovine insulin only in the substitution of histidine for asparagine at A18, meaning it's four residues removed from the human version, and dog insulin is identical to pig insulin.


Is a virus made of a single cell similar to bacterium?

YES