Multiple Choice Questions

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Which statement is incorrect ?

  • Plant viruses contain RNA

  • Animal viruses contain DNA

  • T4 contains double strand DNA

  • TMV contains double stranded RNA


D.

TMV contains double stranded RNA

Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), Poliovirus, HRV, VSV etc contains single stranded RNA whereas Reovirus (animals) and wound tumor virus (Plants) contain double stranded RNA.


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Vaccines prepared by genetic engineering are safe to man because they are

  • least active form of virus

  • active form of virus

  • coat protein formed as antibody

  • All of the above


The principal cereal crop of India/Asia is :

  • Sorghum

  • barley

  • wheat

  • rice


Major coffee producing state of India is :

  • Tamil Nadu

  • Kerala

  • Karnataka

  • Andhra Pradesh


A student wants to study metaphasic behaviour of chromosomes in a living cell. The technique most suitable is :

  • phase contrast microscope

  • x-ray microscope

  • cell fractionation

  • scanning electron microscope


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The molecular structure of insulin was first described by :

  • Korenberg

  • Swaminathan

  • Richardson

  • Sanger


Insect resistance transgenic cotton has been produced by inserting a piece of DNA from:

  • an insect

  • a bacterium

  • a wild relative of cotton

  • a virus


The term genetic engineering is used for :

  • blotting technique

  • RNA reaction technique

  • protein synthesis technique

  • recombinant technique


Genetically engineered human insulin is called

  • humulin

  • haematin

  • hybridoma

  • hybrid


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Humulin is a :

  • form of chitin

  • human insulin

  • digestive enzyme

  • antibiotics


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