Select the two core techniques that enabled the birth of modern biotechnology:

1. Genetic engineering and bioprocess engineering

2. Genetic engineering and biolistics

3. Chemical engineering and biopiracy

4. Downstream processing and bioprocess engineering

The definition of biotechnology given by EFB encompasses

1.      Traditional view

2.      Modern molecular biotechnology

3.      Both 1 and 2

4.     Only Molecular analogs

Modern biotechnology consist:-

1. Microbiology

2. Tissue culture

3. Genetic engineering

4. All the above

Introduction of  foreign genes for improving genotype is

1. biotechnology 

2. vernalization

3. tissue culture

4. genetic engineering

What limitation of traditional hybridization used for plant and animal breeding has been overcome by

the use of rDNA techniques?

1. High cost

2. Insertion of undesirable genes

3. Complexity of the procedure

4. Antigenicity of the product

Cohen and Boyer are known for which of the following discoveries?

1.      Antibiotic resistance gene

2.      Recombinant DNA

3.      Restriction Digestion

4.     Plasmid

If you transform a cell with an alien piece of DNA only, What is the possibility?

1.      This alien piece becomes a part of the host genome.

2.      It doesn't become a part of the host's genome but keeps on replicating

3.      The cloning of genes won't get affected in the absence of Origin of replication.

4.     Multiple identical copies of an alien piece of DNA can be formed irrespective of its integration into the host's genome.

The cutting of DNA at specific locations became possible with the discovery of 

(1) restriction enzymes

(2) probes

(3) selectable markets

(4) ligases

In 1960’s two enzymes were discovered in bacteria that were responsible for providing immunity against bacteriophages. One was Restriction Endonuclease and the other was

1. Methylase

2. Exonuclease

3. Aminotransferase

4. Terminal Transferase