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1. A bacteria contain a genomic island composed in several composite transposon.Why might this bacterium be of concern medically?
Transposons :- is a shorht segment of DNA which can change [trans] their location [position] in any where in the same DNA or in another organism DNA.
TEchnically called :-
transposons has a great ability of mutation and can useful in the production of recombinant DNA.
as you know recombinant DNA. technology is vastly useful for the production of diifrent medicine antibiotics ,enzymes ,hormones etc.
because of this usefulness of Transposons in recombinant DNA, technology it is highly concer in medicle industry.
In a Bacterium , plasmid is use as transposon , to insert gene of intrest [eg- Insulin] from one organism [human] into bacterium , to produce Insulin on a large scale.