The first human hormone produced by recombinant DNA technology is:
1. Insulin
2. Estrogen
3. Thyroxin
4. Progesterone
Which of the following Bt crops is being grown in India by the farmers?
| 1. | Cotton | 2. | Brinjal |
| 3. | Soybean | 4. | Maize |
Consumption of which one of the following foods can prevent the kind of blindness associated with vitamin-A deficiency?
| 1. | Flaver savr tomato | 2. | Canolla |
| 3. | Golden rice | 4. | Bt-brinjal |
Which one of the following is commonly used in the transfer of foreign DNA into crop plants?
1. Trichoderma harzianum
2. Meloidogyne incognita
3. Agro bacterium tumefaciens
4. Penicillium expansum
Transgenic plants are:
| 1. | produced by a somatic embryo in artificial medium |
| 2. | generated by introducing foreign DNA into a cell and regenerating a plant from that cell |
| 3. | Produced after protoplast fusion in artificial medium |
| 4. | grown in artificial medium after hybridization in the field |
Golden rice is a promising transgenic crop. When released for cultivation, it will help in:
1. alleviation of vitamin-A deficiency
2. pest resistance
3. herbicide tolerance
4. producing a petrol-like fuel from rice
Microbes found to be very useful in genetic engineering are:
| 1. | Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens |
| 2. | Vibrio cholerae and a tailed bacteriophage |
| 3. | Diplococcus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. |
| 4. | Crown gall bacterium and caenorhabditis elegans |
The protein a -1 antitrypsin is used to treat which of the following diseases?
| 1. | Cancer |
| 2. | Rheumatoid arthritis |
| 3. | Emphysema |
| 4. | ADA deficiency disease in children |
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains have been used for designing novel:
1. Bio metallurgical technique
2. Bio mineralization processes
4. Bio insecticidal plants
4. Bio fertilizers
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