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Golden rice is:

1.	A variety of rice grown along the yellow river in China
2.	Long stored rice having yellow colour tint
3.	A transgenic rice having gene for β-carotene
4.	Wild variety of rice with yellow coloured grains

(3) Golden rice is a genetically modified crop with enhanced nutritional value. It is rich in vitamin-A,

β

-carotene and was developed at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

It contains ‘ $β$ carotene’ gene from daffodil plant and also genes from some bacteria. Golden rice prevents child blindness which is caused due to the deficiency of vitamin-A.

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