What is a transgenic crop ? Which plant is used to produce blood anticoagulant protein ?
Answer. Transgenic crops or genetically modified crop contain and express one or more useful foreign genes or transgenes. Brassica napus is used to produce blood anticoagulant protein. The protein is called hirudin.
The protein hirudin is an anticoagulant which is present in leech. Its gene was chemically synthesized and introduced in Brassica napus. The seeds of the latter came to have hirudin which could be extracted and purified.
