set 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

The Plant Field Gene Bank at Banthara will

a) Identify economically important wild plants

b) Preserve endangered varieties of plants

c) Check piracy of bio-diversity

d) Look after all the above

Question : 2

Which work among these falls into the category of Biotechnology?

a) Use of modern technology in research of biological mutilation

b) Use of the organism or their substances which are gain by manufacturing process

c) Modernization of the process of commercial industry to produce the goods used in Bioexploration

d) Use of industrial technology to increase the biosphere

Question : 3

Indian farmers are unsatisfied with terminator seed technology because it increases the possibility of

a) Growing sterile plants (sexually)

b) Appearance of bad germination

c) Making little yield inspite of high quality plants

d) Growing of plants which one not capable of producing germinable seeds

Question : 4

Scientists of N.D.R.I., Karnal (Haryana) developed the second clone of which on the following animals?

a) Cow

b) Sheep

c) Buffalo

d) Goat

Question : 5

Bio-magnification means

a) To see the microscopic parts of the body by microscope

b) Fat spreading of cancer cells in the body

c) Increasing a number of pesticides in the organisms of successive tropic level

d) Sudden increase in the number of the individuals of a species in a specific area

Question : 6

With reference to agriculture in India, how can the technique of ‘genome sequencing’, often seen in the news, be used in the immediate future?

1. Genome sequencing can be used indentify genetic markers for disease resistance and drought tolerance in various crop plants.
2. This technique helps in reducing the time required to develop new varieties of crop plants.
3. It can be used to decipher the host-pathogen relationship in crops.

a) Only 1 and 3

b) Only 1

c) Only 2 and 3

d) 1, 2 and 3