Vocabulary
The enzymes which is use DNA at specific sites are called as
what is the Restriction enzymes
Which processes are involved in the down streaming of insulin?
What is the Extraction, purification and packaging.
a type of virus that infects bacteria
What is the bacteriophage
Extrachromososmal circular double stranded DNA
What is the Plasmids
Why is the same restriction enzyme used to cut out the human insulin gene and cut open the bacterial plasmid?
What is the To provide complementary ‘sticky ends’.
a length of DNA that has a complementary base sequence to another piece of DNA that you are trying to detect
What is the gene probe
When making genetically engineered insulin, where is the human insulin gene placed?
What is the bacterial plasmid
What is a transgenic organism?
What is the One that has had genetic material from a different species transferred into it
Non coding sequences of DNA is called
What is the introns
Producing many copies of the recombinant plasmid is known as
What is the gene cloning
This was used as the template for reverse transcriptase to make single stranded DNA.
What is the mRNA
the genome of a eukaryote includes
DNA in nucleus, mitochondria and chloroplasts
These are the only cells to express the insulin gene and they contain large quantities of the mRNA for insulin
What is the Pancreatic Beta cells
the complete set of genes or genetic material present in a cell or an organism
What is the genome
caused by the inability of the pancreas to produce insulin
What is the Diabetes mellitus