While knowing that the genetic code is essentially universal, a scientist uses molecular biological methods to insert the human beta -globin gene (shown in figure 14.12) into bacterial cells, hoping the cells will express it and synthesize functional beta -globin protein. Instead the scientist finds that the protein produced is nonfunctional and is found to contain many fewer amino acids than does the beta-globin protein made by a eukaryotic cell. Explain what happened. Imagine this scientist is your coworker and asks you for help – do you have any suggestions for what they might do to “correct” the problem and get the bacterial cells to make it a functional beta-globin?
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