DAF is similar to ________ with the difference that the primer is a shorter nucleotide sequence.
Which crop is the most popular substrate plant for biopharming?
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Soybean
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Corn
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Tobacco
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Rice
A codon is a group of ______ nucleotides coding for an amino acid.
PCR (polymerase chain reaction) was developed by ________.
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Karl Mullis
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Paul Mullis
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Erkey Mullis
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Kery Mullis
Bt is a ______.
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Fungus
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Bacteria
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Nematodes
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Virus
Biotechnology comes from _______ words.
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Latin
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Greek
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Persian
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Japanese
The purpose of this biotechnology is the conservation and restoration of contaminated natural ecosystems through bioremediation.
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Grey biotechnology
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Green biotechnology
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Yellow biotechnology
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Blue biotechnology
In suspension cultures, sub-cultures are typically done after every ____________ days.
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3-14 days
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2-7 days
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14-20 days
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1-5 days
_______ is the capability of an isolated single cell to multiply and differentiate into multicellular organisms.
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Micropropagation
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Meristem culture
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Totipotency
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All of the above
Molecular scissors used in genetic engineering are?
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Restriction endonuclease
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Restriction exonuclease
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Both A & B
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All of the above
Opaque-2 gene was transferred in maize for obtaining _______ rich maize varieties.
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Valine
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Leucine
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Lysine
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Isoleucine
The Father of Genetic Engineering is?
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Leagenss
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Nicolas Apart
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Paul Berg
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Robert Haring
What is an advantage of plant tissue or In vitro culture?
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It reduces more than half of the time taken in conventional breeding programs.
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It reduces more than double of the time taken in conventional breeding programs.
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It reduces more than one-third of the time taken in conventional breeding programs.
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It reduces more than one-fourth of the time taken in conventional breeding programs.
Plasmid vectors that contain a bacteriophage and package DNA into phage particles are known as?
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Tosmids
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Promids
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Cosmids
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Sapomids
Which plasmids replicate only when the chromosome replicates?
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Ti plasmids
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Relaxed plasmids
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Stringent plasmids
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Cosmids
B-5 medium was formulated by ______.
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Gamborg et al
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Murashige
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Skoog
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All of the above
The term "biotechnology" was coined by ___________.
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Karl Erkey
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William Erkey
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Karl William
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John Erkey
Terminator technology refers to research on seeds/plants that produce _______ seeds.
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Fertile
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Sterile
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Both A & B
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None
The full form of SNP is _____.
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Single nucleotide polymorphism
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Single nucleoside polymorphism
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Single nucleus polypeptide
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Single nucleotide polymer
Which of the following is a type of marker used in molecular biology?
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RFLP
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AFLP
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SSR
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All of the above
Golden rice is a genetically modified crop that is enriched with which nutrient?
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Vitamin A
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Vitamin C
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Iron
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Zinc
What is the process of transferring genetic material from one organism to another called?
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Genetic engineering
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Hybridization
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Cloning
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Mutagenesis
What does CRISPR stand for?
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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
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Coded Ribonucleic Interfering Sequences for Precise Repair
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Combined Restriction Insertion System for Programmable Regulation
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Centralized Repository of Information on Synthetic Proteins
The interchange of ideas between two persons, in such a way that they act on the existing knowledge to achieve some useful result, is called ______.
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Diffusion
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Adoption
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Communication
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Education
The Bhoodan movement was started by Vinoba Bhave in the year ______.
"Mazdoor Manzil" is a synonym for which rural development project?
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Gurgaon project
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Nilokheri project
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Etawah pilot project
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Firka development project
Which category of adopters is most influenced by local leaders?
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Early adopters
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Innovators
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Laggards
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Early majority
How many principles are there in extension education?
The word "communication" is derived from ______.
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English
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Greek
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Latin
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Persian
The communication model that follows the sequence: Communicator → Message → Channel → Treatment → Audience → Audience Response is the ______ model.
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Lasswell
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Fano
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Leagans
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Aristotle