Short Answer TypeRecombination DNA technology is of great importance in the field of medicine. With the help of a flow chart, show how this technology has been used in preparing genetically engineered human insulin.
Following the collision of two trains a large number of passengers are killed. A majority of them are beyond recognition. Authorities want to hand over the dead to their relatives. Name a modern scientific method and write the procedure that would help in the identification of kinship.
(a) Mention the difference in the mode of action of exonuclease and endonuclease.
(b)How does restriction endonuclease function?The difference between the mode of action of endonuclease and exonuclease is that Exonuclease removes nucleotides from the ends of the DNA whereas Endonuclease makes cut at specific positions within the DNA.
(b) Restriction endonuclease functions by inspecting the entire length of the DNA sequence. When it finds the specific recognition sites it binds to the DNA molecule and cuts both the strands at specific palindromic sites in their sugar-phosphate backbone.
e.g. Eco R1 cuts the DNA at following pallindromic sequences.
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5' G A A T T C 3'
3' C T T A A G 5'
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(a) Why are transgenic animals so called?
(b) Explain the role of transgenic animals in
(i) Vaccine safety
(ii) Biological products with the help of an example each.
(a) State the role of DNA ligase in biotechnology.
(b) What happens when Meloidegyne incognitia consumes cells with RNAi gene?Explain the work carried out by Cohen and Boyer that contributed immensely in biotechnology.
Name the genes responsible for making Bt cotton plants resistant to bollworm attack. How do such plants attain resistance against bollworm attacks? Explain.
Given below is the representation of amino acid composition not the relevant translated portion of β-chain of hemoglobin, related to the shape of human red blood cells. 
(a) Is this representation indicating a normal human or a sufferer from certain related genetic disease? Give reason in support of your answer.
(b) What difference would be noticed in the phenotype of the normal and the sufferer related to this gene?
(c) Who are likely to suffer more from the defect related to the gene represented the males, the females or both males and females equally? And why?Draw a schematic sketch of pBR 322 plasmid and label the following in it:
(a) Any two restriction sites.
(b) Ori and rop genes.
(c) An antibiotic resistant gene.
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