Biology GCSE
recombinant insulin
What recombinant insulin means in Biology GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of recombinant insulin
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Recombinant bacteria engineered with human genes produce abundant, pure therapeutic proteins, such as human insulin for diabetes.
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