Suppose you wanted to use bacterial cells to produce human growth hormone, how would you do that?
For a biology take home test, HELP PLEASE!
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In order for this to happen, one would need to splice the HGH hormone into only the HGH exons, which are the actual coders for the protein that makes up the HGH hormone, from the whole gene, which would consist of both introns and exons. Then you would "infect" specially prepared bacteria with this gene along with an indicator gene (usually a gene that makes the bacteria immune to antibiotics) and plate them on a petri dish with an antibiotic. The bacteria that did not take up the HGH gene will also not take up the immunity gene and will die from exposure to the antibiotic. Thus you will end up with bacteria that will produce the HGH gene.