Human genes can be transferred into bacteria through genetic engineering. Why might scientists want to do this?

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hectoroftroy
Dec 14, 2016

Study the proteins they produce.

Explanation:

It's a lot of fun to transfer human genes into a rapidly dividing bacteria (i.e., a system that is going to produce a lot of the protein the gene codes for), then lyse the bacteria, purify the protein and crystalize it to study the protein's structure.

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