| 1. | Providing the best catalyst in the form of improved organism usually a microbe or pure enzyme. |
| 2. | Creating optimal conditions through engineering for a catalyst to act. |
| 3. | Downstream processing technologies to purify the protein/organic compound. |
| 4. | Development of new genetically modified microbes that can be used as bio-weapons. |

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| I. | Use of improved crop varieties |
| II. | Use of better management practices |
| III. | Use of agrochemicals [fertilisers and pesticides] |
| 1. | Only I | 2. | Only I and III |
| 3. | Only I and II | 4. | I, II and III |

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| Statement I: | Use of genetically modified crops is an important option for increasing food production in the future. |
| Statement II: | Agrochemicals are too expensive for farmers in the developing world. |
| 1. | Statement I is correct and Statement II is incorrect |
| 2. | Both Statement I and Statement II are correct |
| 3. | Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect |
| 4. | Statement I is incorrect and Statement II is correct |

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| Assertion (A): | Conventional breeding is not the answer if we want to increase yield in the existing crop varieties. |
| Reason (R): | The existing crop varieties have evolved into new species and traditional hybridisation is not possible now. |
| 1. | Both (A) and (R) are False. |
| 2. | Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) does not explain (A). |
| 3. | (A) is True but (R) is False. |
| 4. | Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) explains (A). |

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| 1. | More tolerance to abiotic stresses |
| 2. | Alternative resources to industries |
| 3. | Increased efficiency of mineral usage by plants |
| 4. | Fixation of atmospheric nitrogen |

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