MCQ on Plant Tissue Culture, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (Lecturer in Botany Questions)

Plant Tissue Culture

21. The concept of invitro cell culture was developed by

a)Kotte and Robins

b)Haberlandt

c) Hanning

d)Knop

Ans: b)Haberlandt

22. The embryo formed by unfertilized egg

a) Androgenic embryos

b) somatic embryos

c)parthenogenic embryos

d) adventive embryos

Ans: c)parthenogenic embryos

23. The first report of forming haploid embryos from Datura by invitro was published

a) Nitch

b) Guha and Maheswary

c) Maheswary

d) Bourgin and Nitch

Ans: Guha and Maheswary

Biotechnology

24. The term ‘pharming’ refers to

a) Genetically modified foods from plants

b) Drugs synthesis from transgenic plants

c) recombinant drugs from bacteria

d)transgenic research by animals

Ans: b) Drugs synthesis from transgenic plants

25. Polymerase Chain Reaction involves

a)Denaturation, annealing and polymerisation

b) Denaturation and polymerisation

c)extension and annealing

d)None of these

Ans: a)Denaturation, annealing and polymerisation

26. DNA is separated by

a) Agarose gel electrophoresis

b) PAGE

c) SDS-PAGE

d)SDA-PAGE

Ans: a) Agarose gel electrophoresis

27. Super bug is

a) transgenic plant

b) transgenic insect

c) bacterium

d) virus

Ans: c) bacterium

28. Which of the following is a cloning vector

a)cosmid

b)Phasmid

c)plasmid

d)All of these

Ans: d)All of these

Bioinformatics

29. The sum total of proteins produced b an organism

a) Metabolomics

b) Proteome

c) Genomics

d)All of these

Ans: b) Proteome

30. A programme to identify complete gene structures in genomic DNA

a)SWISSPORT

b)BLAST

c)GENSCAN

d) Phylip

Ans: c)GENSCAN