I was looking at a wikipedia page about a particular chemical and it said something to the effect of “this was originally extracted from a fungus, but can now be made synthetically”. What does that actually mean? I can conceptualise the process of extracting chemicals from organic materials, but when something is created synthetically the chemists do…what exactly?
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In biochemistry you can also have genes added to a thing that doesn’t normally carry a gene for something. For example, insulin is produced by mammals and not bacteria or yeast. But if you insert the genes for insulin into them you can culture bacteria or yeast and produce human insulin instead of having to extract it from human pancreas.
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