Biotechnology in Healthcare and Medicine

The use of DNA as a pharmaceutical agent to treat disease is called:

Which of the following protein has been produced by methods of genetic engineering?

An example of gene therapy is

The steps involved in the production of human insulin (humulin) are given below. Choose the correct sequence

(i) Purification of humulin.

(ii) Culturing recombinant E.coli in bioreactors.

(iii) Synthesis of the gene (DNA) for human insulin artificially.

(iv) Insertion of human insulin gene into a plasmid.

(v) Introduction of recombinant plasmid into E.coli.

(vi) Extraction of a recombinant gene product from E.coli.

What is gene therapy? What is the function of ADA (Adenosine deaminase) in body?

Explain Molecular diagnosis

What is Gene Therapy? Illustrate using the example of Adenosine Deaminase deficiency.

_____ stem cells are procured from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst.

Insulin was earlier extracted from the pancreas of slaughtered _____ and _____.

Identify the correct statement regarding the application of biotechnology in medicine.

Identify the human growth factors from the following:

The antibiotic Penicillin was discovered by _____.

_____ converts excess glucose to glycogen in liver.

Antibiotic Penicillin is produced by _____ belonging to group _____.

Vaccines that use components of a pathogenic organism rather than the whole organism are called _____.

Raphano brassica is a man-made tetraploid produced by colchicine treatment.

PCR is not a useful tool for early diagnosis of an infectious disease. 

Pathophysiology is the study of altered physiology of host.

PCR helps in the early detection of diseases or pathogens with greater sensitivity and precision.