MIUN Free NEET Quiz Unit 9

1. Hind II mostly cut DNA molecules at a random point by recognising a specific sequence of seven base pairs.

2. Management of adult-onset diabetes is impossible by taking insulin at regular time intervals.

3. Bioreactor has steam vent for sterilisation.

4. Indian Basmati was crossed with semi-dwarf varieties and claimed as an invention or a novelty.

5. Creating optimal conditions through engineering for a catalyst to act is a critical research area of biotechnology.

6. The rDNA technology enabled mass production of safe and more effective therapeutic drugs.

7. Understanding the basic principles and applications of biotechnological processes is important to grasp the modern biology era.

8. Investigation of new treatments for cystic fibrosis is made possible.

9. There is reference to Basmati in ancient texts, as it has been grown for centuries.

10. Hind II always cut DNA molecules at a particular point by recognising a specific sequence of seven base pairs.

11. Recombinant DNA technology has made it impossible to engineer animals such that they have novel capabilities.

12. Hind II always cut DNA molecules at a random point by not recognising a specific sequence of seven base pairs.

13. Plasmids not replicates independently of the coding strand of DNA.

14. The normal E. coli cells do not carry resistance against chloramphenicol.

15. GM plants have been useful to make crops less tolerant of stresses.

16. Biotechnology has given to humans several useful products by using plant and their metabolic machinery.

17. The first restriction exonuclease–Hind II, whose functioning depended on a non-specific DNA nucleotide sequence, was isolated and characterised in 1970s.

18. The applications of biotechnology include recombinant therapeutics.

19. RNAi takes place in all viruses as a method of cellular defence.

20. Biotechnology deals with large scale production and marketing of products and processes using live organisms, cells or enzymes.

21. Insulin used for diabetes was earlier extracted from pancreas of slaughtered cattle and pigs.

22. Biotechnology has given to humans several useful products by using microbes, plant, animals, and their metabolic machinery.

23. By recognising a specific six-base-pair palindrome sequence, Hind II always cuts DNA molecules at the same point.

24. Use of insulin from calf/cattle not at all elicit an immune response.

25. Medicines required to treat certain human diseases can contain biological products.

26. Insulin consists of two long peptide chains: chain A and chain B, which are linked together by diester bonds.

27. Bioreactors can be thought of as vessels in which raw materials are chemically converted into specific products, individual enzymes, etc., using plant, animal, microbial or human cell.

28. René Descartes was neither a philosopher, mathematician, nor biologist.

29. Insulin from a cattle or pig, results in all patients to develop allergy or other types of reactions to the self protein.

30. Several nematodes parasitise a wide variety of animals.

31. A bio reactor provides optimum substrate concentration to cultivate bacterial cell for achieving the desired recombinant products.

32. A bio reactor provides optimum pH to cultivate plant cell for achieving the desired recombinant products.

33. In 1997, an African company got patent rights on Basmati rice through the US Patent and Trademark Office.

34. The most commonly used bioreactors are of stirring type.

35. Genetic engineering isn’t one of the two core techniques that enabled the birth of modern biotechnology.

36. Transgenic animals produce some biological products that are attempted to cure cystic fibrosis.

37. Rene Descartes is the French biologist.

38. Transgenic animals produce some biological products that are attempted to cure PKU.

39. By not recognising a specific palindrome sequence, Hind II always cuts DNA molecules at a particular point.

40. Investigation of new treatments for Alzheimer’s is made possible.

41. The first restriction endonuclease–Hind I, whose functioning depended on a specific DNA nucleotide sequence, was isolated and characterised in 1970.

42. DNAi takes place in all organisms as a method of cellular defence.

43. In 1967, the first transgenic cow, Rosie, produced human alpha-lactalbumin enriched milk.

44. The normal E. coli cells carry resistance against kanamycin.

45. DNA splicing mechanism does not exist in a eukaryote system.

46. The diversity of rice in India is one of the richest in the world.

47. Insulin from an animal source, results in some patients to develop allergy or other types of reactions to the foreign protein.

48. Since the time of René Descartes, the 17th-century English philosopher, mathematician, and biologist, human knowledge, particularly in the natural sciences, has been aimed at developing technologies that enhance human comfort and add value to human life.

49. Rice is an important food grain, the presence of which goes back thousands of years in Asia’s agricultural history.

50. A bio reactor provides optimum substrate concentration to cultivate plant cell for achieving the desired recombinant products.