Biology A-Level
Animal and recombinant sources
What Animal and recombinant sources means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Animal and recombinant sources
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Some medicines have been obtained from animals, for example insulin historically extracted from animal pancreas, and human insulin is now produced by modified bacteria.
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