Biotechnology in Healthcare and Medicine

The use of DNA as a pharmaceutical agent to treat disease is called:

Deficiency of the enzyme ADA causes:

Which of the following protein has been produced by methods of genetic engineering?

An example of gene therapy is

With regard to insulin choose correct options.
(a) C-peptide is not present in mature insulin.
(b) The insulin produced by rDNA technology has C-peptide.
(c) The pro-insulin has C-peptide.
(d) A-peptide and B-peptide of insulin are interconnected by disulphide bridges.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Which of the following is based on antigen-antibody reaction?

Read the following statements and select the correct option from below:

I. Genetically modified crops are more susceptible to natural stress conditions like drought, salinity, etc., as compared to normal crops

II. For the treatment of ADA (adenosine deaminase) deficiency treatment, a functional ADA cDNA was introduced to the lymphocytes of the patient by using lambda phage virus

III. There are more than 3,00,000 rice varieties in India alone

IV. Nitrates, phosphates are easily removed from polluted water in the water treatment plant.

In the PCR technique during the detection of the mutated gene, a single-stranded DNA or RNA, tagged with a radioactive molecule is allowed to hybridise to its complementary DNA in a clone of cells followed by detection using autoradiography. In this statement which of the following term can be used as “radioactive molecule”?

A probe could be

DNA probes are used in human for

The following technique uses radioactive precursors for observing metabolic activities of macromolecules, is 

Or,

Which of the following technique, other than microscopy is used for the study of cell?

Study the following statements.
A) In germ-line gene therapy functional genes are introduced into somatic cells.
B) Synthetic oligo deoxy nucleosides are used for silencing the disease-causing genes.
C) The transgenic animal product $\mathrm{\alpha }$ -lactalbumin is used to treat emphysema.
D) Viral vectors are used to send genetically modified DNA by a process called transfection.

The correct statements are:

Match the following and choose the correct option.

The first gene therapy was given to

Which one of the following application is not related to $\mathrm{DNA}$ finger printing?

Identify incorrectly matched scientist and their work:

1) Term biotechnology - Karl Ereky

2) Plasmid was discovered by - Lederberg and Hays

3) Ligases discovered by - Mertz and Davis

4) DNA fingerprinting - French Anderson

5) Tissue culture - Haberlandt

6) Somatic gene therapy (SCID) - Alec Jeffrey and Lalji singh

In human insulin, ___________ is not present in the mature insulin.

Choose the correct statements

(A) Early detection of pathogen presence can be done by$\mathrm{PCR}$

(B) Biochemical products produced by bacteria are inferior to products produced in transgenic plants

(C) Validity of the $\mathrm{GM}$ Research will be controlled by Genetic Engineering Approval committee

(D) Use of bio resources by multinational companies with proper authorization is not possible The correct answer is

The correct answer is

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