EASY
NEET
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

Cultivation of Bt cotton has been much in the news. The prefix Bt means
(a)"Barium-treated" cotton seeds
(b)"Bigger thread" variety of cotton with better tensile strength
(c)produced by "biotechnology" using restriction enzymes and ligases
(d)carrying an endotoxin gene from Bacillus thuringiensis

50% studentsanswered this correctly

Important Questions on Biotechnology and Its Applications
MEDIUM
NEET
IMPORTANT
Which one of the following is a correct statement

EASY
NEET
IMPORTANT
A plant expressing a gene obtained from another organism is

EASY
NEET
IMPORTANT
Which of the following is based upon principle of antigen-antibody interaction?

MEDIUM
NEET
IMPORTANT
Read the following four statements (1-4) about certain mistakes in two of them:
1. The first transgenic buffalo, Rosie produced milk which was human alpha-lactalbumin enriched.
2. Restriction enzymes are used in isolation of DNA from other macro-molecules.
3. Downstream processing is one of the steps of R-DNA technology.
4. Disarmed pathogen vectors are also used in transfer of R-DNA into the host.
Which are the two statements having mistakes?

EASY
NEET
IMPORTANT
A transgenic food crop which may help in solving the problem of night blindness in developing countries is

EASY
NEET
IMPORTANT
An example of gene therapy

MEDIUM
NEET
IMPORTANT
Hirudin is
