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Insect resistance transgenic cotton has been produced by inserting a piece of DNA from

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A wild relative of cotton

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A bacterium

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A virus

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An insect

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Solution

The correct option is B
A bacterium

The gene (cry gene) responsible for the production of toxin (Bt toxin) has been isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis and introduced into a new number of crop plants using Agrobacterium Ti plasmid mediated transformation. The new genetically modified Bt cotton is resistant to the bollworm complex.

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