Diseases amenable to treatment by gene therapy:

Main objective of production / use of herbicide resistant GM crops is to
1. Encourage eco-friendly herbicides
2. Reduce herbicide accumulation in food articles for health safety
3. Eliminate weeds from the fields without the use of manual labour
4. Eliminate weeds from the fields without the use of herbicides

Which of the following are also called as “magical bullets”?

1. restriction enzymes

2. monoclonal antibodies

3. DNA ligases

4. plasmids

The crops engineered for glyphosate are resistant/tolerant to:
1. Bacteria
2. Insects
3. Herbicides
4. Fungi

Some of the characteristics of BT cotton are
1. Medium yield, long fibre and resistance to beetle pests
2. High yield and production of toxic protein crystals which kill dipterans pests
3. High yield and resistance to bollworms
4. Long fibre and resistance to aphids

The genetically-modified (GM) brinjal in India has been developed for
1. Enhancing shelf life
2. Enhancing mineral content
3. Drought-resistance
4. Insect-resistance

Which of the following explains why production of transgenic plants is easier than production of transgenic animals?

Read the following four statements (a-d) for certain mistakes in two of them.   

Which are the two statements having mistakes?

1. Statements (a) and (b)
2. Statements (b) and (c)
3. Statements (c) and (d)
4. Statements (a) and (c)

Which of the following is commonly used as a vector for introducing a DNA fragment in human lymphocytes? 
1. Λ phage
2. Ti plasmid
3. Retrovirus
4. pBR 322 

Genetically engineered microorganism used successfully in bioremediation of oil spills is 
1. Trichoderma
2. Xanthomonas
3. Bacillus
4. Pseudomonas putida