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Assertion :Superbug has been biopatented in the name of Prof. A. Chakraborty. Reason: Superbug was created by him with exceptional degradative plasmid to degrade toxic substances.
Assertion :Superbug has been biopatented in the name of Prof. A. Chakraborty. Reason: Superbug was created by him with exceptional degradative plasmid to degrade toxic substances.
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The correct option is A Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion.
Four species of oil-metabolizing bacteria were known to exist, but when introduced into an oil spill, competed with each other, limiting the amount of crude oil that they degraded. The genes necessary to degrade oil were carried on plasmids, which could be transferred among species. By irradiating the transformed organism with UV light after plasmid transfer, Prof. Chakrabarty discovered a method for genetic cross-linking that fixed all four plasmid genes in place and produced a new, stable, bacteria species (called as Pseudomonas putida) capable of consuming oil one or two orders of magnitude faster than the previous four strains of oil-eating microbes. The new microbe, which Chakrabarty called as "multi-plasmid hydrocarbon-degrading Pseudomonas," could digest about two-thirds of the hydrocarbons that would be found in a typical oil spill and named it the superbug.so, the correct answer is 'Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion.'
Four species of oil-metabolizing bacteria were known to exist, but when introduced into an oil spill, competed with each other, limiting the amount of crude oil that they degraded. The genes necessary to degrade oil were carried on plasmids, which could be transferred among species. By irradiating the transformed organism with UV light after plasmid transfer, Prof. Chakrabarty discovered a method for genetic cross-linking that fixed all four plasmid genes in place and produced a new, stable, bacteria species (called as Pseudomonas putida) capable of consuming oil one or two orders of magnitude faster than the previous four strains of oil-eating microbes. The new microbe, which Chakrabarty called as "multi-plasmid hydrocarbon-degrading Pseudomonas," could digest about two-thirds of the hydrocarbons that would be found in a typical oil spill and named it the superbug.
so, the correct answer is 'Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion.'
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