The European Federation of Biotechnology [EFB] defines biotechnology as:
1.  The use of living cells and bacteria in industrial and scientific processes.
2.  The integration of natural sciences and organisms, cells, parts thereof, and molecular analogues for products and services.
3.  The use of biology to solve problems and make useful products.
4.  The use of biology to develop new products, methods and organisms intended to improve human health and society.

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Two core techniques that enabled birth of modern biotechnology are:
A. Techniques to alter the chemistry of genetic material, to introduce these into host organisms and thus change the phenotype of the host organism.
B. Maintenance of sterile ambience in chemical engineering process to enable growth of only the desired microbes/eukaryotic cell in large quantities for the manufacture of biotechnological products. 
 
1.  A is called as Genetic Engineering and B is called as Biophysical engineering.
2.  A is called as Genomics and B is called as Bioprocess engineering.
3.  A is called as Genetic Engineering and B is called as Bioprocess engineering.
4.  A is called as Genomics and B is called as Biophysical engineering.
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The term ‘molecular scissors’ is used for:
1. restriction enzymes 2. Taq polymerase
3. reverse transcriptase 4. DNA ligase
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Identify the correct statements: 
I:  In the Cohen and Boyer experiment, the linking of antibiotic resistance gene with a plasmid vector became possible with the enzyme DNA ligase.
II:  Recombinant DNA molecules are DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods of genetic recombination that bring together genetic material from multiple sources, creating sequences that would not otherwise be found in the genome.
 
1. Only Statement I
2. Only Statement II
3. Both Statement I and Statement II
4. Neither Statement I nor Statement II
Subtopic:  Introduction & History | General Design of an rDNA experiment |
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Identify the correct statements: 
Statement I: In 1963, two enzymes responsible for restricting the growth of bacteriophage in E.coli were isolated.
Statement II: In 1968, the first restriction endonuclease, that always cut DNA molecules by recognising a specific sequence six base pairs, was isolated and characterised.
 
1. Only Statement I
2. Only Statement II
3. Both Statement I and Statement II
4. Neither Statement I nor Statement II
Subtopic:  Restriction Enzymes - Main Enzymes |
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Regarding the naming of restriction enzymes: 
I:  The enzyme names begin with an italicized three-letter acronym; the first letter of the acronym is the first letter of the genus of bacteria from which the enzyme was isolated, the next two letters are the two letters of the species.
II:  These are followed by extra letters or numbers to indicate the serotype or strain, a space, then a Roman numeral to indicate the chronology of identification.
 
1. Only I is correct 2. Only II is correct
3. Both I and II are correct 4. Both I and II are incorrect
Subtopic:  Restriction Enzymes - Main Enzymes |
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The palindrome in DNA is a sequence of base pairs:
1.  that reads same on the two strands when orientation of reading is kept the same.
2.  that reads same on the two strands when orientation of reading is 5’ to 3’ on one end and 3’ to 5’ on the other.
3.  that are complementary on the two strands when orientation of reading is kept the same. 
4.  that are complementary on the two strands when orientation of reading is 5’ to 3’ on one end and 3’ to 5’ on the other.
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The number of correct statements regarding cloning vectors amongst the given statements is:
I.  Bacteriophages because of their high number per cell, have very high copy numbers of their genome within the bacterial cells.
II.  If one wants to recover many copies of the target DNA, it should be cloned in a vector whose origin supports high copy number.
III.  A selectable marker helps in identifying and eliminating non-transformants and selectively permits the growth of the transformants.
IV.  Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens has now been modified into a cloning vector which is no more pathogenic to the plants but is still able to use mechanisms to deliver genes of our interest into a variety of plants.
V.  Retroviruses in animals have the ability to transform normal cells into cancerous cells and hence can never be used as a cloning vector in rDNA procedures.
 
1. 2 2. 3
3. 4 4. 5
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Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A):  In order to link the alien DNA, the vector needs to have very few, preferably single, recognition sites for the commonly used restriction enzymes:
Reason: (R):  Presence of more than one recognition sites within the vector will generate several fragments, which will complicate the gene cloning.
 In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A).
2. (A) is true but (R) is false.
3. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) does not explain (A).
4. Both (A) and (R) are false.
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What temperature is used to give heat shock when competence is induced in a bacterial host cell enabling it to take up rDNA?
1. 27°C 2. 42°C
3. 72°C 4. 98°C
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