Multiple Choice Questions

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Science of engineering and technology applied to life sciences is

  • Biotechnology

  • Genetic engineering

  • Pathology

  • Biological science


A.

Biotechnology

Biotechnology includes the use of living organisms or substances obtained from them, in industrial processes. It is an integrated use of different disciplines like microbiology, biochemistry and chemical engineering.


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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


Wildlife is destroyed most when

  • there is lack of proper care

  • mass scale hunting for foreign trade

  • its natural habitat is destroyed

  • natural calamity


Which of the following. is generally used in chronic diarrhoea, dysentery, bleeding, piles, leucorrhoea etc?

  • Quinine

  • Ephidrine

  • Chir

  • Catha


The growth of pollen tube towards embryo sac is

  • geotropism

  • chemotaxis

  • thigmotaxis

  • phototaxis


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Triticum vulgare has been found to be presently evolved as

  • diploid

  • tetraploid

  • pentaploid

  • hexaploid


A hyaline bisexual and self-fertilized flower that does not open at all is

  • chasmogamaus

  • apogamous

  • cleistogamous

  • polygamous


Late blight of potato is caused by

  • Cystopus

  • Phytophthora

  • Alternaria

  • Ustilago


Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is synthesized in

  • nucleolus

  • nucleosome

  • cytoplasm

  • ribosome


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The number of RNA molecules in 60S sub- particles of 80S ribosomes are

  • five 

  • four

  • three

  • two