Transgenic Plant Questions

• Starch content of potatoes can be increased by using a bacterial gene, known as
• What are the various disadvantages of cross protection?
• Insect resistance in the transgenic plant has been achieved by
• Antisense technology
• Resistance to glyphosphate in transgenic petunia plants has been developed by the transfer of
• Which cell-based plant technology involves the combining of two cells without cell walls from different species?
• Which of the following genes can be used for making resistances against viral infection?
• The first transgenic plants expressing engineered foreign genes were tobacco plants produced by the use of
• In a __________ protocol, bacteria with engineered abilities to detoxify pollutants are intentionally released in an area.
• Which tropical fruit crop has been successfully engineered to be protected against a lethal virus?
• Expression of antisense RNA in transgenic plants is a general method used to
• Plants containing genes encoding cytokines and blood clotting factors are used in
• Which of the following metabolites are implicated in stress tolerance?
• Given the DNA sequence ATTAAGGC, which sequence would be used by researchers as an antisense molecule?
• Metabolic interference is a term used to describe a method to metabolize a compound and prevent the synthesis of something that is normally produced. What compound(s) have been targeted for metabolic interference in tomato?
• Antisense transgenic plants produced fruit that softened
• The delayed ripening tomato was created by a biotechnologist who __________ a gene.
• Transgenic plants
• Tomatoes exhibiting delayed ripening express antisense RNA against
• ACC demainase gene is responsible for