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Human insulin is being commercially produced from a transgenic species of
Answer: C
Human insulin is produced commercially from transgenic Escherichia coli.
The human insulin gene is inserted into a plasmid and the bacteria are cultured in fermenters. Marketed as Humulin from 1982, it was the first genetically engineered medicine, and it replaced the pig and cattle insulin used earlier.
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