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NEET 2024 (Re-Examination)
Following are the steps involved in action of toxin in Bt. Cotton
A. The inactive toxin converted into active form due to alkaline pH of gut of insect...
NEET 2024
The capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell of the plant is called:
NEET 2024
Given below are two statements:
Statement I : Bt toxins are insect group specific and coded by a gene cry IAc.
Statement II : Bt toxin exists as inact...
NEET 2024
What is the fate of a piece of DNA carrying only gene of interest which is transferred into an alien organism?
A. The piece of DNA would be able to mu...
NEET 2024
Which of the following are fused in somatic hybridization involving two varieties of plants?
NEET 2024
Match List I with List II
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NEET 2024
Which of the following statements is incorrect?
NEET 2024
The following diagram showing restriction sites in E. coli cloning vector pBR322. Find the role of ‘X’ and ‘Y’ genes :
...
NEET 2023 Manipur
Which of the following statement is incorrect about Agrobacterium tumifaciens?
NEET 2023 Manipur
Which of the following can act as molecular
scissors?
NEET 2023 Manipur
Match List-I with List-II.
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NEET 2023
During the purification process for recombinant DNA technology, addition of chilled ethanol precipitates out
NEET 2023
In gene gun method used to introduce alien DNA into host cells, microparticles of ________ metal are used.
NEET 2023
Main steps in the formation of Recombinant DNA are given below. Arrange these steps in a correct
sequence.
A. Insertion of recombinant DNA into the h...
NEET 2022 Phase 2
Milk of transgenic ‘Cow Rosie’ was nutritionally more balanced product for human babies than natural cow milk because it contained:
NEET 2022 Phase 1
In the following palindromic base sequences of DNA, which one can be cut easily by particular restriction enzyme?
NEET 2022 Phase 1
In gene therapy of Adenosine Deaminase (ADA) deficiency, the patient requires periodic infusion of genetically engineered lymphocytes because:
NEET 2022 Phase 1
Statements related to human Insulin are given below.
Which statements is/are correct about genetically engineered Insulin?
(a) Pro-hormone insulin con...
NEET 2021
When gene targetting involving gene amplification is attempted in an individual's tissue to treat disease, it is known as :
NEET 2021
With regard to insulin choose correct options.(1) C-peptide is not present in mature insulin.(2) The insulin produced by rDNA technology has C-peptide...
NEET 2020 Phase 1
Which of the following statements is not
correct?
NEET 2020 Phase 1
Match the following columns and select the
correct option.
Column-I
Column-II
(a) Bt cotton
(i) Gene therapy
(...
NEET 2019
Which of the following glucose transporters is insulin-dependent?
NEET 2018
In India, the organisation responsible for
assessing the safety of introducing genetically
modified organisms for public use is
NEET 2018
Which of the following is commonly used as a
vector for introducing a DNA fragment in
human lymphocytes?
NEET 2018
Use of bioresources by multinational
companies and organisations without
authorisation from the concerned country and
its people is called
NEET 2018
A 'new' variety of rice was patented by a
foreign company, though such varieties have
been present in India for a long time. This is
related to
NEET 2016 Phase 2
Which kind of therapy was given in 1990 to a four-year-old girl with adenosine deaminase [ADA] deficiency ?
NEET 2016 Phase 1
Which part of the tobacco plant is infected by Meloidogyne incognita ?
NEET 2016 Phase 1
The two polypeptides of human insulin are linked together by
AIPMT 2015
Golden rice is a genetically modified crop
plant where the incorporated gene is meant
for biosynthesis of -
AIPMT 2015
The introduction of t-DNA into plants
involves -
AIPMT 2015 Cancelled Paper
In Bt cotton, the Bt toxin present in plant tissue as pro - toxin is converted into active toxin due to :
AIPMT 2015 Cancelled Paper
The crops engineered for glyphosate are resistant/ tolerant to :
AIPMT 2015 Cancelled Paper
Which body of the Government of India regulates GM research and safety of introducing GM organisms for public services ?
AIPMT 2014
To obtain virus−free healthy plants from a diseased one by tissue culture technique, which
part/parts of the diseased plant will be taken ?
AIPMT 2014
The first human hormone produced by recombinant DNA technology is :
NEET 2013 (Karnataka)
Tissue culture technique can produce infinite
number of new plants from a small parental tissue.
The economic importance of the technique is in
raisin...
NEET 2013 (Karnataka)
Which of the following statements is not true about
somatic embryogenesis ?
NEET 2013 (Karnataka)
RNA interference involves :-
NEET 2013 (Karnataka)
Which one of the following vectors is used to replace
the defective gene in gene therapy ?
NEET 2013
Which of the following Bt crops is being grown in India by the farmers ?
AIPMT 2012 Mains
What is it that forms the basis of DNA Fingerprinting ?
AIPMT 2012 Mains
The first clinical gene therapy was given for treating -
AIPMT 2012 Mains
Tobacco plants resistant to a nematode have been developed by the introduction of DNA that produced (in the host cells) :
AIPMT 2012 Prelims
Which one of the following is a case of wrong matching ?
AIPMT 2012 Prelims
Consumption of which one of the following foods can prevent the kind of blindness associated with
vitamin 'A' deficiency
AIPMT 2011 Mains
Bacillus thuringiensis forms protein crystals
which contain insecticidal protein. This protein :
AIPMT 2011 Mains
Silencing of mRNA has been used in producing
transgenic plants resistant to :
AIPMT 2011 Mains
Read the following four statements (A-D) about
certain mistakes in two of them :
(A) The first transgenic buffalo, Rosie produced
milk which was human...
AIPMT 2011 Prelims
The process of RNA interference has been used
in the development of plants resistant to :
AIPMT 2011 Prelims
Maximum number of existing transgenic animals
is of :
AIPMT 2010 Mains
Which one of the following is now being
commercially produced by biotechnological
procedures ?
AIPMT 2010 Prelims
Breeding of crops with high levels of minerals,
vitamins and proteins is called –
AIPMT 2010 Prelims
The genetically-modified (GM) brinjal in India
has been developed for:
AIPMT 2010 Prelims
An improved variety of transgenic basmati rice
AIPMT 2010 Prelims
Genetic engineering has been successfully used
for producing –
AIPMT 2010 Prelims
Some of the characteristics of Bt cotton are –
AIPMT 2009
Polyethylene glycol method is used for :
AIPMT 2009
What is true about Bt toxin ?
AIPMT 2009
Transgenic plants are the ones -
AIPMT 2009
The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis is widely
used in contemporary biology as -
AIPMT 2009
What is antisense technology?
AIPMT 2008
Cry I endotoxins obtained from Bacillus
thuringiensis are effective against:
AIPMT 2008
Main objective of production/use of herbicide
resistant GM crops is to:
AIPMT 2008
Human insulin is being commercially produced
from a transgenic species of:
AIPMT 2008
A transgenic food crop which may help in
solving the problem of night blindness in
developing countries is
AIPMT 2007
A genetically engineered micro-organism used
successfully in bioremediation of oil spills is a
species of-
AIPMT 2006
Golden rice is a promising transgenic crop.
When released for cultivation, it will help in
AIPMT 2005
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains have been
used for designing novel -
AIPMT 2005
Golden rice is a transgenic crop of the future
with the following improved trait -
AIPMT 2005
Production of a human protein in bacteria by
genetic engineering is possible because
AIPMT 2004
DNA fingerprinting refers to :-
AIPMT 2004
ELISA is used to detect viruses, wherethe key reagent is :-
AIPMT 2004
The Ti plasmid is often used for making
transgenic plants. This plasmid is found in
AIPMT 2003
ELISA is used to detect viruses, wherethe key reagent is :-