biotechnology

• what is mycoprotein?

  food from fungi
• how is bacteria engineered to produce human insulin?

  1. a plasmid is removed from the bacterium
  2. the insulin gene is cut out the human chromosome using a restriction enzyme, which leaves one of the DNA strands with unpaired bases
  3. the plasmid is cut up and is mixed with the human insulin gene
  4. lipase is added to join the ends together which is inserted into a bacterium