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Insulin-dependent diabetics depend upon ____________ microorganisms to produce the human protein that they rely upon to uptake glucose from their bloodstreams.

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The answer would be: transgenic

Bacteria can be altered to produce a specific protein by introducing a sequence of DNA into their genes. This bacteria is called genetically modified bacteria. Bacteria that producing insulin called transgenic because they have genes of other species transplanted on them.
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