Multiple Choice QuestionsAssertion : "Rosie", the first transgenic cow, produced human protein-enriched milk.
Reason : The milk contained the human alpha for human babies than natural cow milk.
If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
If both the assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
If assertion is true but reason is false.
If both the assertion and reason are false.
A.
If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
In 1997, the first transgenic cow, Rosie, produced human protein-enriched milk at 2.4 grams per litre. This transgenic milk is a more nutritionally balanced product than natural bovine milk and could be given to babies or the elderly with special nutritional or digestive needs.
Match Column I with Column II and choose the correct option.
| Column I | Column II |
| 1. Totipotency | A. breeding crops with higher levels of nutrients |
| 2. Micropropagation | B. plant grown from hybrid protoplast |
| 3. Somaclone | C. producing a large number of plants through tissue culture |
| 4. Somatic hybrid | D. capacity to generate a whole plant from an explan |
| 5. Biofortification | E. Plants genetically identical to the original plant |
1 - D; 2 - C; 3 - E; 4 - B; 5 - A
1 - A; 2 - E; 3 - B; 4 - D; 5 - C
1 - C; 2 - B; 3 - E; 4 - D; 5 - A
1 - D; 2 - E; 3 - A; 4 - D; 5 - C
1 - D; 2 - E; 3 - A; 4 - D; 5 - C
A person affected with phenylketonuria, lacks an enzyme that converts the amino acid phenylalanine into
Valine
Proline
Histidine
Tyrosine
Tyrosine
Select the wrong statement
Human insulin is being commercially produced from a transgenic species of Escherichia coli.
The genetically modified bacillus thuringiensis is used as biopesticide on the commercial scale
Human protein, alpha-1 -antitrypsin is used to treat emphysema
The first transgenic cow, Rosie, produced alpha lactalbumin, enriched milk
The first transgenic cow, Rosie, produced alpha lactalbumin, enriched milk
Which one of the following is used extensively in biochemical and genetic work?
Saccharomyces
Aspergillus
Claviceps
Penicillium
Penicillium
Which of the following statements about transgenic animals is/are false?
(i) Transgenic animals are designed to study how genes are regulated.
(ii) They are specially made to serve as models for human diseases.
(iii) Transgenic Cow, Rosie was created to produce the human protein a-1-antitrypsin.
(iv) Transgenic mice are used to test the safety of vaccines.
(iii) only
(i) and (iii) only
(ii) only
(ii) and (iii) only
(ii) and (iii) only
Which of the following glucose transporters is insulin-dependent?
GLUT II
GLUT III
GLUT IV
GLUT I
What triggers activation of protoxin to active Bt toxin of Bacillus thuringiensis in boll worm?
Moist surface of midgut
Alkaline pH of gut
Acidic pH of stomach
Body temperature
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