Transgenic plants are:

1.	produced by a somatic embryo in artificial medium
2.	generated by introducing foreign DNA into a cell and regenerating a plant from that cell
3.	Produced after protoplast fusion in artificial medium
4.	grown in artificial medium after hybridization in the field

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

1. alleviation of vitamin-A deficiency

2. pest resistance

3. herbicide tolerance

4. producing a petrol-like fuel from rice

Microbes found to be very useful in genetic engineering are:

1. Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens

2. Vibrio cholerae and a tailed bacteriophage

3. Diplococcus sp. and Pseudomonas sp.

4. Crown gall bacterium and caenorhabditis elegans

The protein a -1 antitrypsin is used to treat which of the following diseases?

1. Cancer
2. Rheumatoid arthritis
3. Emphysema
4. ADA deficiency disease in children

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains have been used for designing novel:

1. Bio metallurgical technique

2. Bio mineralization processes

4. Bio insecticidal plants

4. Bio fertilizers

The mobile genetic element is:

1. transposon

2. mutation

3. endonuclease

4. variation

Sir Godfrey Hounsfield developed the diagnostic technique of:

1. CT scanning

2. MRI

3. Endoscopy

4. Bronchoscopy

Nucleic acid segment tagged with a radioactive molecule is called:

1. clone

2. probe

3. plasmid

4. vector

Herbicide-resistant gene in a plant is:

1. Mt

2. Gt

3. Ct

4. Bt

Which of the following is true for Golden rice?