In 1973, Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer inserted a toxic gene from an African clawed frog into the plasmid of a bacterium. The bacterium then began to produce the toxin. How did this discovery most
impact society?

Group of answer choices

It demonstrated how a DNA toxin from one organism can be used to kill another organism.

It revealed that bacterial DNA can be used to make an entirely new DNA strand.

It led to other life-saving chemicals being produced by recombinant DNA.

It allowed other toxic chemicals to be produced from genetically engineered frog DNA.