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The use of Recombinant DNA Technology can only Benefit Humans
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The use of Recombinant DNA Technology can only Benefit Humans. The term gene technology refers to the process and techniques by which genes may be extracted from the DNA of one organism and inserted into the DNA of another organism, the host organism. In this way, the gene set of the host can be transformed, genetically modified. The modified DNA is called recombinant DNA because it has been re-combined to make a different set of codes. Recombinant DNA procedures involve splicing one piece of DNA into another. The newly formed composite is often grown up in a large amounts (or cloned in bacteria. Recombinant DNA and genetic technology are defined as Biotechnology, which is the use of a living organism to make a product or run a process. Recombinant DNA technology was first used commercially to produce human insulin from bacteria. In 1982, genetically engineered insulin was approved for...
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