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Biotechnology and Its Applications
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Vaccines prepared by genetic engineering are safe to man because they are

  • least active form of virus

  • active form of virus

  • coat protein formed as antibody

  • All of the above

Answer

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least active form of virus

Vaccination is a technique to develop immunity without infection, ie, weakened or dead pathogens or part of pathogens infected into a person who required to made immune. This is the reason that vaccines prepared by genetic engineering are safe to man because they are least active form of virus.

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