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Molecular Farming MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
Edited By admin | Updated on Sep 18, 2023 18:34 AM | #NEET
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Molecular Farming is considered one the most difficult concept.
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11 Questions around this concept.
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Hirudin is a potent inhibitor of ______ which has a high therapeutic value in the treatment of thrombosis.
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Molecular Farming
- Production of proteins encoded by transgenes in animals or crops is called molecular farming.
- Plants are cheap and amazing chemical factories that need only water, minerals, sunlight, and CO2 to produce thousands of sophisticated molecules.
Production of hirudin:
- Brassica napus have been used for the synthesis of hirudin.
- Hirudin is a protein that prevents blood clotting.
- Hirudin accumulates in the seeds from where it is extracted and used as medicine.
- Hirudin is a potent inhibitor of thrombin. Thus, it has a high therapeutic value in the treatment of thrombosis.
- Hirudin gene inserted in Brassica napus was synthesized chemically in E. coli and yeast and was found to be a reasonable success.
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