‘Superbug’ was a term coined for micro-organism engineered for :
Hydrocarbon degradation
The term superbug was used for a genetically engineered strain of Pseudomonas putida developed by Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty in 1971 at General Electric.
He transferred several plasmids, each coding for the breakdown of a different group of hydrocarbons (such as octane, xylene, camphor and naphthalene), into a single bacterium.
The resulting strain could degrade many components of crude oil at once, so it was proposed for cleaning up oil spills. It became the first genetically modified organism to be patented after the 1980 United States Supreme Court decision in Diamond v. Chakrabarty.
Antibiotic production comes from naturally occurring moulds and actinomycetes, probiotics are beneficial live microbes such as lactobacilli, and recombinant insulin is made by engineered Escherichia coli or yeast; none of these was called the superbug.
Hence, Hydrocarbon degradation.
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.................... is a client server application that identifies each host on the internet with a unique user-friendly name.
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(i) Kernel
(ii) Interface
(iii) Nucleus
(iv) Compiler
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(ii) Assembly language
(iii) High level language
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Codes:
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