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Golden rice is a promising transgenic crop. When released for cultivation, it will help in

  • alleviation of vitamin A deficiency

  • pest resistance

  • herbicide tolerance

  • herbicide tolerance


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alleviation of vitamin A deficiency

A plant in which a gene has been transferred through genetic engineering is called a transgenic plant and the gene, so transferred is called a transgene. Golden rice is a promising transgenic crop which when released for cultivation will help in alleviation of vitamin A deficiency.

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In order to obtain virus-free plants through tissue culture the best method is

  • protoplast culture

  • embryo rescue

  • anther culture

  • anther culture


In maize, hybrid vigour is exploited by

  • bombarding the protoplast with DNA

  • crossing of two inbreed parental lines

  • harvesting seeds from the most productive plants

  • harvesting seeds from the most productive plants


Homozygous purelines in cattle can be obtained by

  • mating of related individuals of same breed

  • mating of unrelated individuals of same breed

  • mating of individuals of different breed

  • mating of individuals of different breed


The process of separation and purification of expressed protein before marketing is called

  • Upstream processing

  • Downstream processing

  • Bioprocessing

  • Bioprocessing


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