GMO basics
What does GMO stand for?
What is Genetically Modified Organism?
What is recombinant DNA technology?
What is combining DNA from different sources?
What’s a major supply benefit of using bacteria to make insulin?
What is avoiding dependency on animals?
What ethical factor shows insulin from bacteria is safe?
What is few serious side effects in studies?
Who discovered insulin?
Who are Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering?
Why are GMOs created?
What is to help society by improving crops, bacteria, and medicine?
What is the name of the circular DNA used in bacteria?
What is a plasmid?
What economic benefit does bacterial insulin have?
What is stable pricing and easier production?
What ethical risk involves antibodies?
What is concern about immune reaction to E. coli proteins?
What organization approved GMO insulin first?
What is the World Health Organization?
What kind of GMO helps diabetic patients?
What is insulin-producing bacteria?
What is inserted into the plasmid during insulin production?
What is the human insulin gene?
What’s one health concern with recombinant insulin?
What is weight gain?
Why is weight gain an ethical issue?
What is its impact on patient health?
– Who was the first person treated with insulin?
: Who is Leonard Thompson?
Which disease is treated with insulin?
What is diabetes?
What do scientists put recombinant bacteria into to grow insulin?
What are fermentation tanks?
What environmental factor is involved in insulin production?
What is intensive purification causing waste?
Why is purification an environmental issue?
What is energy use and chemical waste?
What country were the scientists who discovered insulin from?
What is Germany?
What year was insulin first used to treat a human?
What is 1922?
What do bacteria do after receiving the human gene?
What is produce human insulin for medicine?
What is a major ethical concern with bacterial insulin?
What is the risk of the body reacting to E. coli proteins?
What’s one way recombinant insulin protects the environment?
What is reducing the need to harvest animal glands?
What’s the name of the technology that made insulin production possible?
What is recombinant DNA technology?