Which of these are most widely used in genetic engineering?

1. Plastid

2. Plasmid

3. Mitochondrion

4. Ribosome

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Introduction of  foreign genes for improving phenotype is

1. biotechnology 

2. vernalization

3. tissue culture

4. genetic engineering

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A tumor inducing plasmid widely used in the production of transgenic plants is that of

1. Escherichia coli

2. Bacillus thuringiensis

3. Staphylococcus aureus

4. Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

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What is the source of EcoRI?

1. Escherichia coli R 1
2. Escherichia coli R I 13
3. Escherichia coli R Y 13
4. Escherichia coli R X 13

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Which of the following is a cloning vector?

1. DNA of Salmonella typhimurium
2. Ti plasmid
3. Amp' and Tet' loci
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4. Ori minus PBR322

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How are transformants selected from nontransformants?

1. Presence of more than one recognition site in the vector DNA.
2. Presence of alien DNA into the vector DNA results into insertional inactivation of selectable marker.
3. Antibiotic resistance gene gets inactivated due to insertion of alien DNA.
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4. Both 2 and 3.

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of pBR322 vector? 

1. It is the first artificial cloning vector constructed in 1977 by Boliver and Rodriguez.

2. It is the most widely used, versatile and easily manipulated vector.

3. It has two antibiotic resistance genes, tetR and ampR.

4. It does not have restriction site for Sal I.

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Plasmid vector in DNA recombinant technology means

1. a virus that transfers gene to bacteria
2. extra-chromosomal autonomously replicating circular DNA
3. sticky end of DNA
4. any fragment of DNA carrying desirable gene
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Biolistic (gene gun) is suitable for

1. disarming pathogen vectors
2. transformation of plant cell
3. constructing recombinant DNA by joining with vectors
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4. DNA fingerprinting

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Which of the following DNA sequences qualifies to be designated as a palindrome?

1. 5 - GACCAG - 3’ in one strand

2. 3’- GACCAG - 5’ in one strand

3. 5’- GACGAG- 3’ 3’- CTGGTC - 5’

4. 5’- AGCGCT - 3’ 3’- TCGCGA - 5’

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