Biotechnology and its applications practice · Mixed difficulty

In September 2001, which of the following was used as a bioweapon agent in America?

Genetic engineering has been successfully used for producing

Transgenic animals exist for which of the following human diseases?
a. Alzheimer's b. Cancer c. Cystic fibrosis
Choose the option which includes all the correct ones

Which of the following is/are true?
I. Biowar is the use of biological weapons against humans and/or their crops and animals.
II. Bioethics is the unauthorized use of bioresources and traditional knowledge related to bioresources for commercial benefits.
III. Biopatent is exploitation of bioresources of other nations without proper authorization.

Assertion (A): Traditional knowledge related to bio-resources can be exploited to develop modern applications.
Reason (R): Traditional knowledge related to bio resources can also be used to save time, effort and expenditure during their commercialisation.

Golden rice
I. It is a transgenic variety of rice
II. It contains a goods quality of $\mathrm{\beta }$-carotene (provitamin-A)
III. $\mathrm{\beta }$-carotene is a principal source of vitamin-A
IV. The grains of the rice are yellow in colour due to $\mathrm{\beta }$-carotene. The rice is commonly called golden rice
Which of the statements given above are correct?

Mature form of recombinant human insulin lacks

Lymphocytes are

Assertion : FlavrSavr, a transgenic tomato
which remains fresh and retains their flavour
for long time.

Reason : Production of polygalacturonase
enzyme, which degrades pectin, is blocked in
FlavrSavr.

Main objective of production/use of herbicide resistant GM crops is to

Gene therapy in humans was first practiced by Blease and Andresco to cure

What might be an advantage of beginning gene therapy prior to birth?

Use of biological resources of other countries without any legal authorization of the countries concerned is called

Mature insulin differs from pro-insulin because the former does not have

Roise’ cow known to produce a type of milk which has all the following characteristics
I. protein content of 2.4 g/L
II. human α-lactalbumin
III. more nutritionally balanced for human babies than natural cow milk
Which of the above statements are correct?

Number of recombinant therapeutics have been approved for human throughout the world is ____

Consider the following statements
I. Earlier, insulin was extracted from pancreas of slaughtered cattle and pigs which was more efficient than the genetically engineered insulin
II. PCR technique is being used for the detection of HIV in suspected AIDS patients and genetic mutations in suspected cancer patients
III. Cystic fibrosis, haemophilia, cancer, Parkinon’s etc., are treated by gene therapy
Which of the statements given above are correct?

Assertion (A): The insulin isolated from other animals just as effective as that secreted by the human body itself and it not elicit an immune response in the human body.
Reason (R): Insulin from an animal source, caused all patients to develop allergy or other types of reactions to the foreign protein.

The water soluble protein associated with silk thread is

C – Peptide of human insulin is

What is the demerit of using bovine insulin (from cow) and porcine insulin (from pig) in diabetic patients?

Application of biotechnology include
I) Therapeutics
II) Diagnostics
III) GMO
IV) Processed food

The pesticide most persistent in the soil is

Read the following statements

A. Bt toxins are insect group specific.

B. They are endotoxins.

C. The toxins encoded by gene cry I Ab controls cotton bollworm.

D. The toxins encoded by genes cry I Ac and cry II Ab controls corn borer.

E. The Bt toxins bind with midgut epithelium and damages it by creating pores

Choose the option, which includes all incorrect statements.

Assertion (A): Using Agrobacterium vectors, nematode-specific genes were introduced into the host plant.
Reason (R): A Solanaceae member Meloidegyne incognitia infects the roots of tobacco plants and causes a great reduction in yield.

Which technique accurately detect pathological and physiological changes in the living tissue

Which of the following statements are false?
I. Insulin for curing diabetes, used to be extracted from the pancreas of slaughtered pig and cattle
II. Animal insulin is slighty different from the human insulin
III. Animal insulin causes some undesirable side effects such as allergy
IV. Bacteria cannot be made to synthesise insulin from its gene because of the presence of introns
Choose the correct option

Select the correct pair representing the diagnostic test for $AIDS$ and its treatment

Find the CORRECT match from the following.

In 1983, Eli Lilly an American company, first prepared two DNA sequences corresponding to A and B-chains of the human insulin and introduced them in the plasmids of $Escherchia\mathrm{ }coli$ to produce insulin chains. Chains A and B were prepared separately, extracted and combined by creating