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The can produce antigens useful in making vaccines without the harmful parts of the original disease organism.

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Q: What is the use of genetically engineered bacteria?
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Is there a way to mass produce proteins?

Genetically engineered organisms. Bacteria, yeasts, spiders, goats, etc. have been genetically engineered to mass produce several proteins of medical interest.


A substance produced by genetically-engineered bacteria is?

Insulin - The Dude That's Friends With THE DUDE


A single isolated gene can be cloned MOST rapidly using genetically engineered?

bacteria


How are genetically modified bacteria grown?

Just like any other bacteria. It depends on its growth requirements. They don't usually require anything extra unless engineered to need a particular nutrient. Agar would be the most common media used to grow bacteria and probably genetically engineered bacteria too.


Can only bacteria be genitically engineered?

Not at all. There are many foods that you eat that have been genetically engineered to produce something better or faster than before.


What do stores do to genetically engineered produce?

Stores label genetically engineered produce.


The production of certain human hormones by genetically engineered bacteria results from?

Combing a portion of human DNA with bacterial DNA and inserting this into bacteria


Genetically engineered antibodies?

Antibodies: chemical that are like glue to specific pathogenes. They stick to bacteria and viruses and make them incapable of effecting their manevolent lifecycle. Genetically engineered: Engineers fooling bacteria, plants or animals into making specified chemical for us. When I'm sick I'm all for them.


When insulin was being commercially produced in genetically engineered bacteria and yeast it was obtained from the pancreas of what?

C)Pigs and cows


True or false scientists use genetic engineering to produce bacteria that is capable of synthesizing human proteins?

True in the 'manufacture' of Human Insulin - 'Humulin" genetically engineered bacteria are used to produce drugs and other chemicals that benefit humans.


Why do some people prefer to eat that are not genetically engineered?

People prefer to eat foods that are not genetically engineered because the long term effects of eating genetically engineered plants is unknown.


Vaccines can now be genetically engineered by inserting the genes that encode the pathogen's surface proteins into the?

DNA of harmless bacteria or viruses.