Multiple Choice Questions

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Insect resistance transgenic cotton has been produced by inserting a piece of DNA from:

  • an insect

  • a bacterium

  • a wild relative of cotton

  • a virus


B.

a bacterium

Insect (i.e., Bollwarm) resistant transgenic cotton has been produced through genetic engineering by inserting a piece of DNA from bacterium Bacillus thuringensis.


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Major coffee producing state of India is :

  • Tamil Nadu

  • Kerala

  • Karnataka

  • Andhra Pradesh


The principal cereal crop of India/Asia is :

  • Sorghum

  • barley

  • wheat

  • rice


Genetically engineered human insulin is called

  • humulin

  • haematin

  • hybridoma

  • hybrid


Humulin is a :

  • form of chitin

  • human insulin

  • digestive enzyme

  • antibiotics


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The molecular structure of insulin was first described by :

  • Korenberg

  • Swaminathan

  • Richardson

  • Sanger


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


Which statement is incorrect ?

  • Plant viruses contain RNA

  • Animal viruses contain DNA

  • T4 contains double strand DNA

  • TMV contains double stranded RNA


The term genetic engineering is used for :

  • blotting technique

  • RNA reaction technique

  • protein synthesis technique

  • recombinant technique


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A student wants to study metaphasic behaviour of chromosomes in a living cell. The technique most suitable is :

  • phase contrast microscope

  • x-ray microscope

  • cell fractionation

  • scanning electron microscope


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