Question

Almost all pharmaceutical products produced
by DNA technology are
(a) Proteins
(b) Hormones
(c) Antibiotics (d) Alcohol
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Answer 1

Answer:

B : Hormones

Explanation:

Human growth hormone

Answer 2

Recombinant DNA technology is used in the pharmaceutical industry for the production of drugs that are proteins. Hence option (a) is true.

• Selective DNA sequences are synthesized in the Recombinant DNA technology. This can be done by the use of various enzymes to splice and combine the required nucleotide sequences.
• The next step involves the introduction of the formed DNA sequence into a host cell for replication.
• The first drug produced by this technique was human insulin.
• Human growth hormone and hepatitis B vaccine are the other products of rDNA technology. All of them are proteinaceous in nature.