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Question
How has the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis helped us in controlling caterpillars of insect pests?
Solution
Bacillus thuringiensis products are endotoxin that when ingested and released in the gut of the larvae of insect pest disrupts the insect gut lining thereby killing them.
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