Strategies For Enhancement In Food Production Question 167

Question: Insect resistance transgenic cotton has been produced by inserting a piece of DNA from [CPMT 2004]

Options:

A) An insect

B) A bacterium

C) A wild relative of cotton

D) A virus

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Answer:

Correct Answer: B

Solution:

Insect (i.e., Boll worm) resistant transgenic cotton has been produced through genetic engineering by inserting a piece of DNA from bacterium Bacillus thuringensis.