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Tobacco’s public image couldn’t be more stained these days, given the war on cigarettes in the courts, federal and state governm
Tobacco’s public image couldn’t be more stained these days, given the war on cigarettes in the courts, federal and state governm
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2012-01-21
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Tobacco’s public image couldn’t be more stained these days, given the war on cigarettes in the courts, federal and state governments, the medical establishment — even in Doonesbury. But the tobacco plant is not an irredeemable never-do-well. Because its genetic makeup is fairly straightforward and well understood, scientists believe tobacco could turn out to be the perfect blotch factory for protein-based drags. By splicing human genes — a technique developed in the early 1990s — researchers have enabled tobacco plants to produce a number of drugs and vaccines and even human blood components. Within 10 years, researchers are hopeful that tobacco farmers might be raising millions of acres of biofactories rather than "the killer weed".
The latest breakthrough in tobacco "pharming" may bring such a vision one step closer to reality. Scientists at Monsanto Co. (MTC) reported in the March issue of Nature Biotechnology that they were able to genetically engineer tobacco plants to produce human growth hormone, otherwise known as somatotropin — an extremely costly drug used to treat dwarfism. But the Monsanto discovery was more important for the press than the product. The scientists were able to induce the tobacco plants to manufacture the drug in an abundant piece of the plant cell known as a chloroplast, which is responsible for converting light into food. Other efforts to create drug-producing plants have altered plant nuclei instead — far less numerous cell components.
DNA Dilemma. "We were able to produce 300-fold more human somatotropin in the chloroplasts than in the nucleus," says Jeffrey M. Staub, manager of the Monsanto team that developed the technique. "As an optimistic scientist, I think it is very reasonable to believe, we will be able to produce commercial quantities of human proteins in the plants in the next couple of years."
There has been notable progress with gene-spliced plants in the past two years. In 1998, British researchers reported that a human antibody grown in tobacco plants prevented one of the bacterial infections that led to tooth decay in human volunteers. And last August, the Energy Dept.’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced that its scientists had successfully transplanted the necessary human genes into tobacco plants to produce human blood components.
Even with plants, though, volume remain a problem. All plant cells contain subunits called organelles, two of which are the nucleus and the chloroplast. Gene splicing to date has focused on altering the nucleus — essentially the brain of the cell, because it controls all of the plant’s activities. But drug production was limited, since there is only one nucleus per cell. Moreover, the genetic alteration is transmitted to the plant’s pollen, making it difficult to control the spread of the reengineered plants. Chloroplasts, however, are abundant, and they do not spread their genetic changes to any other cells in the plant.
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
选项
A、Somatotropin is used to treat dwarfism.
B、Nuclei is far less numerous component.
C、Chloroplast is responsible for converting light into food.
D、Somatotropin is not of hormone.
答案
D
解析
是非判断题。认真研读题项句子,与原文进行对比,排除与原文意思相近的 选项,剩下的就是该题的答案。A与第二段中的somatotropin—an extremely costly drugused to treat dwarfism意思一致。B与第二段最后一句话中的far less numerous cell component— 致。C与第二段倒数第二句中的which is responsible for converting light into food一致。排除 了以上的可能性,D就是答案,可以从第二段第二句找出依据。
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