What does the addition of a human growth hormone gene allow the bacteria to do? why?

Question by Ashley W: What does the addition of a human growth hormone gene allow the bacteria to do? why?
help me with science please!!
it's basically asking how the bacteria changes when adding a human growth hormone gene.


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Answer by scottsdalehigh64
It allows the bacteria to produce human growth hormone.

Human growth hormone (HGH) is medically used to treat dwarfism. Before bacteria made HGH, animal growth hormones were used, but there were problems including expense.

Research scientists at Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco inserted the HGH gene into bacteria to see if the hormone could be harvested directly. It could be. This was the first commercial product of Genentech, the biotech company.

The next product from the company was human insulin made by bacteria. Before recombinant DNA, insulin was taken from cows and sheep in the slaughter houses. But these animals did not produce human insulin. When the human insulin was produced by bacteria, it was much more effective and safer.

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