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A bacterial cell was transformed with a recombinant DNA that was generated using a human gene. However, the transformed cells did not produce the desired protein. Reasons could be
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Bacteria cannot remove introns from eukaryotic genes because they lack the splicing machinery. Therefore, a human gene containing introns may not produce the desired protein in bacterial cells.
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