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Human growth hormone is necessary for growth during adolescence. Pituitary dwarfism is a condition that results...

Human growth hormone is necessary for growth during adolescence. Pituitary dwarfism is a condition that results from the inability of a person to produce HGH. Luckily, the human gene for HGH can be inserted into E. coli bacteria, which are able to make our HGH. The resulting HGH is used by people who are unable to make their own. What property about hereditary information makes this possible?

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Recombination of genes is the main important concept of genetics which has been applied here. The gene which codes for growth harmone is GNH gene. This gene is then inserted in the plasmid of ecoli and then replication takes place..

So recombinant DNA technology is the technique which is used for this process .

gladiator answered 2 years ago
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