Discussion
'Superbug' was a term coined for micro-organism engineered for :
Answer: C
The superbug was engineered for hydrocarbon degradation.
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty at General Electric combined plasmids from several Pseudomonas strains into one bacterium able to break down several components of crude oil. It was proposed for cleaning oil spills, and the 1980 US Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty made it the first living organism to be patented. The press called it the 'superbug'.
The term was not coined for antibiotic, probiotic or insulin-producing microbes. Today 'superbug' is also used loosely for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which is the trap in option A, but that is a later, different usage.
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