Under Montreal Protocol, developing countries are required to phase out the HCFCs by the year
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One of the following is correct sequence to make a transgenic animal
A. Transomics → Transfection → Microinfection → Electroporation → Retroviral vectors
B. Microinjection → Transfection → Electroporation → Retroviral vectors → Transomics
C. Transfection → Microinjection → Transomics → Electroporation → Retroviral vectors
D. None of the above
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The description of a new organism identified must be submitted to a journal and the name validated before it is formally accepted as a new taxon of prokaryotes. The journal is
A. Bergey's manual
B. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology
C. The prokaryotes
D. Applied and environment microbiology
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The first evidence for the oxidation of inorganic substance by an organism was given by
A. T. Schmoozing and A. Multz
B. Winogradsky
C. Robert Koch
D. Alexander Fleming
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Convention on biological diversity, adopted at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, aims to curb destruction of
A. Biological species
B. Habitats
C. Ecosystems
D. All the above
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DNA sequencing method was proposed by
A. Watson
B. Crick
C. Sanger
D. None of these
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The Hersey and Chase experiment which offered evidence in support of DNA being the genetic material in bacteriophage made use of the following labeled compounds?
A. Phosphorous and sulfur
B. Nitrogen and oxygen
C. Tritium
D. Hydrogen
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Pyrethrum is obtained from
A. Chrysanthemum cinerarifolium
B. Nicotiana sp
C. Derris elliptica
D. Lonchocarpus nicou
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Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains have been used for designing novel
A. Biofertilizers
B. Bio-metallurgical techniques
C. Bio-mineralization processes
D. Bioinsecticidal plants
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Rockefeller group discovered that the extract of dead capsule forming Pneumococci could transform a non-capsulated strain. What transforming material was present in the extract of the dead strain?
A. Denatured proteins
B. t-RNA
C. DNA
D. Toxins
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The principle of transformation was given by
A. Griffith
B. Hersey and Chase
C. Avery
D. McCarty
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What is true about Bt toxin?
A. Bt protein exists as active toxin in the Bacillus
B. The activated toxin enters the ovaries of the pest to sterilise it and thus prevent its multiplication
C. The concerend Bacillus has antitoxins
D. The inactive protoxin gets converted into active form in the insect gut
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Glyoxylate pathway was discovered by
A. Krebs
B. Kornberg and Krebs
C. Beevers
D. Slater
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Who for the first time resolved that the nuclei are composed of exclusively nucleic acid?
A. Hargovind Khorana
B. F. Miescher
C. J. D. Watson and F. Crick
D. A. Kornberg
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The intron splicing was studied in detail by
A. Marshall Nirenberg
B. Matthew Mselson
C. Thomas Cech
D. Hargovind Khorana
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The microbia used in paper industry are
A. Pseudomonas putida
B. Klebsilella plantiola
C. E. coli
D. Phanerochaete chrysosporium
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In order to isolate cDNA for a specified protein from a mice cDNA library prepared in λgt11 vector which of the following methods you will choose for screening?
A. Recombinational
B. Immunochemical
C. Polymerase chain reaction
D. Yeast two hybrid screen
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Flavr Savr variety of tomato is a
A. High yielding variety
B. Transgenic crop
C. Mutated form
D. Somaclonal variety
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Based upon the features of F factor, Shizuya et al., in 1992 developed a high capacity insert vector, which is very much in use for preparing genomic library of higher organisms. What is the name of the vector?
A. BAC vector
B. PAC vector
C. YAC vector
D. Phagmid vector
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In Bt cotton, a transgenic plant, Bt refers to
A. Botanical
B. Beta
C. Biotechnology
D. Bacillus thuringiensis
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