Application in Agriculture

Q. The crops engineered for glyphosate are resistant/tolerant to:

1. Herbicides
2. Fungi
3. Bacteria
4. Insects

Q. What is the most important objective of biotechnology in agriculture sector?

1. To decrease the seed colour
2. To produce pest resistant varieties of plant
3. To increase the nitrogen content
4. To increase the plant weight

Q.

Who discovered gibberellins.

Q. A transgenic food crop, which may help in solving the problem of night blindness in developing countries is

1. Flavr savr tomatoes
2. star-link maize
3. Bt soybean
4. golden rice

Q.

The most important weed against which eradication measures would be taken on is:

1. Eichhornia

2. Dactylis

3. Parthenium

4. Ageratum

Q. Hybrids are different from GMOs as

1. They are produced naturally without intervention of human beings
2. They are made by inserting a foreign gene
3. They are highly precise in expressing the desired gene
4. None of the above

Q. Which of the following is the best method to control plant diseases?

1. The selection of disease resistant varieties
2. The introduction of disease resistant varieties
3. Biological control
4. The breeding of permanent resistant varieties

Q. Golden rice is a transgenic crop of the future with the following improved trait ?

1. Insect resistance
2. High lysine (essential amino acid) content
3. High protein content
4. High vitamin-A content

Q. Main objective of productive/use of herbicide-resistant GM crops is to:

1. encourage ecofriendly herbicides
2. reduce herbicide accumulation in food articles for health safety
3. eliminate weeds from the field without the use of manual labour
4. eliminate weeds from the field without the use of herbicides

Q. What are some advantages biotechnology has brought to mankind?
1. Better yield of crops
2. Decrease usage of pesticides
3. Pest resistant crops
4. Producing crops with better nutritional value

1. 1 only
2. 2 only
3. 1 and 3 only
4. 1, 2, 3 and 4

Q. Golden rice is a transgenic crop with a trait for ________________.

1. High vitamin A content
2. Drought resistance
3. Pest resistance
4. High protein content

Q. The primary purpose of the passage is to ________.

1. Challenge recent findings that appear to contradict earlier findings
2. Present two sides of an ongoing scientific debate
3. Report answers to several questions that have long puzzled researchers
4. Attempt to explain a commonly misunderstood biological phenomenon
5. Discuss evidence that has caused a long-standing belief to be revised

Q.

Which of the following risks are associated with genetically modified crops?

1. Gene transfer to non-target species

2. Hazardous to the environment

3. Risks to human health

4. Resistance to pests

Q. What do you mean by GM organisms ? Mention any three advantages of GM organisms.