Which of the following is not a critical research area of biotechnology
| 1. | Providing a best catalyst in the form of improved organism usually microbe or pure enzyme |
| 2. | Creating optimal conditions through engineering for a catalyst to act |
| 3. | Downstream processing technologies to purify the protein or organic compound |
| 4. | Upstream processing of all the activated antibodies and plasminogens in plant body |
The method of producing thousand of plantlets through culture is called:
1. Micropropagation
2. Clonal selection
3. Hardening
4. Acclimatization
It is possible to raise a large number of plantlets through micro-propagation because of the presence of which of the following properties in plants?
1. Cellular totipotency
2. Phenotypic plasticity
3. Closed development
4. Determined growth
Totipotency refers to
| 1. | capacity to generate genetically identical plants. |
| 2. | capacity to generate a whole plant from any plant cell / explant. |
| 3. | capacity to generate hybrid protoplasts. |
| 4. | recovery of healthy plants from diseased plants. |
Genetically identical plants produced by micropropagation are called
1. Explants
2. Somaclones
3. Somatic hybrids
4. Cybrids
Somaclones are produced by
1. Micropropagation.
2. Mutation.
3. Polyploidy.
4. Hybridisation.
Transgenic plants are the ones
| 1. | Grown in artificial medium after hybridization in the field |
| 2. | Produced by a somatic embryo in artificial medium |
| 3. | Generated by introducing foreign DNA in to a cell and generating a plant from that cell |
| 4. | Produced after protoplast fusion in artificial medium |
Match List - I with List - II
| List - I | List - II |
| (a) Protoplast fusion | (i) Totipotency |
| (b) Plant tissue culture | (ii) Pomato |
| (c) Meristem culture | (iii) Somaclones |
| (d) Micropropagation | (iv) Virus free plants |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
1. (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
2. (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
3. (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
4. (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
A protoplast is
| 1. | Storage organelle of plant cell |
| 2. | A cell without cell wall |
| 3. | Primitive form of plastids |
| 4. | A cell without nucleus |