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61 Use of certain chemicals and radiation to change the base sequences of genes of crop plants is termed:
[1] recombinant DNA technology
[2] transgenic mechanism
[3] mutation breeding
[4] gene therapy.
Answer: mutation breeding
62 Which one of the following is a marine fish:
[1] Rohu
[2] Hilsa
[3] Catla
[4] Common Carp.
Answer: Hilsa

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63 33 percent of India’s (Gross Domestic Product) comes from
[1] Industry
[2] Export
[3] Agriculture
[4] Small-scale cottage industries.
Answer: Agriculture
64 Fungicides and antibiotics are chemicals that:
[1] enhance yield and disease resistance
[2] kill all pathogenic microbes
[3] kill pathogenic fungi and bacteria, respectively
[4] kill pathogenic bacteria and fungi respectively.
Answer: kill pathogenic fungi and bacteria, respectively
65 Protoplast is:
[1] another name for protoplasm
[2] an animal cell
[3] plant cell without a cell wall
[4] plant cell.
Answer: plant cell without a cell wall
66 Which one of the following products of apiculture is used in cosmetics and polishes:
[1] honey
[2] oil
[3] wax
[4] Royal jelly
Answer: wax
67 An organism that expresses a transgene is called
[1] Clone organism
[2] Mutated organism
[3] somaclonal organism
[4] Transgenic organism
Answer: Transgenic organism
68 Fusion between protoplasts of the selected parents is induced by
[1] Polyethyl glycol
[2] Electric current
[3] mutagene
[4] both 1 and 2
Answer: both 1 and 2
69 Recombinant proteins are proteins produced by
[1] Dominant genes
[2] Transgenes
[3] Mutated genes
[4] Recessive genes
Answer: Transgenes
70 The way in which biotechnology can contribute to sustainable agriculture is
[1] biofertilizer
[2] Single Cell Protein (SCP)
[3] Disease and insect resistant varieties
[4] All of the above
Answer: All of the above
71 A patent is granted for
[1] An invention
[2] The process of generating a product
[3] An improvement in an earlier invention
[4] All of these
Answer: All of these
72 Haploids of Datura are produced by
[1] Tissue culture
[2] Anther culture
[3] Subculture
[4] Meristem culture
Answer: Anther culture
73 Production of which enzyme was blocked in Flavr Savr tomato
[1] Ligase
[2] Invertase
[3] Peptidase
[4] polygalacto uronase
Answer: polygalacto uronase
74 Microorganism used as biopesticides is
[1] Fungi
[2] Protozoa
[3] Bacteria
[4] All of these
Answer: All of these
75 A crop that contains and expresses a transgene is called
[1] GM crops
[2] Transgenic crop
[3] Genetically modified crop
[4] both 2 and 3
Answer: both 2 and 3

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