Biotechnology in Healthcare and Medicine

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

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

An example of gene therapy is

_____ stem cells are procured from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst.

Insulin was earlier extracted from the pancreas of slaughtered _____ and _____.

Identify the correct statement regarding the application of biotechnology in medicine.

Identify the human growth factors from the following:

The antibiotic Penicillin was discovered by _____.

_____ converts excess glucose to glycogen in liver.

Antibiotic Penicillin is produced by _____ belonging to group _____.

Vaccines that use components of a pathogenic organism rather than the whole organism are called _____.

Raphano brassica is a man-made tetraploid produced by colchicine treatment.

PCR is not a useful tool for early diagnosis of an infectious disease. 

Pathophysiology is the study of altered physiology of host.

PCR helps in the early detection of diseases or pathogens with greater sensitivity and precision.

Which is the site of production of ADA in the body? Is it Erythrocytes or Lymphocytes?

The genetically modified bacteria are used for the commercial production of insulin.

The use of recombinant protein for the formation of new blood vessels is possible due to the use of tissue plasminogen activator.

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: