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Title: Web Tutorial 19-1 Producing Human Growth Hormone
Caption: How do scientists use recombinant DNA technology to produce a protein such as the human growth hormone? In this tutorial, you'll see how researchers were able to manufacture\ large quantities of human growth hormone to treat the inherited condition known as pituitary dwarfism.\""
Keywords: complementary DNA, cDNA, cDNA library, DNA ligase, DNA polymerase, growth hormone, hormone, pituitary dwarfism, plasmid, probe, promoter, recognition site, recombinant plasmid, restriction endonuclease, reverse transcriptase, sticky end