genetic engineering and bio technology - Category wise Question and Answer Practice Test with Solutions

Question : 11 [IAS (Pre) 2017]

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

Question : 12 [PSC (Pre) 2017]

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 : 13 [MPPCS (Pre) 2012]

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 : 14 [RAS/RTS (Pre) 2013]

Golden rice is

a) Long stored rice having yellow colour tint

b) Wild variety of rice with yellow coloured grains

c) A variety of rice grown along the yellow river in China

d) A transgenic rice having gene for carotene

Question : 15 [UPPCS (Pre) 2003]

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