MCQ on Plant Biotechnology for Agriculture Exams

1) Who is regarded as father of Indian embryology
(a) Guha
(b) Maheshwari
(c) Guha and Maheshwari
(d) Bourgin and Nitsch

2) Who were first time used commercial enzyme for protoplast isolation
(a) Takebe et al.
(b) Cocking et al.
(c) White
(d) Both A and B

3) In which year Maxam-Gilbert gave technology for DNA sequencing?
(a) 1977
(b) 1987
(c) 1967
(d) 1957

4) Biolistic gene transformation method for plant transformation was developed by
(a) Borton
(b) Klien
(c) Williams
(d) Smith

5) Biolistic gene transformation method was developed in year ……..
(a) 1987
(b) 1990
(c) 1995
(d) 2000

6) In which year International Rice Genome Sequencing Project was completed?
(a) 2000
(b) 2005
(c) 2010
(d) 2015

7) The term biotechnology was coined by

(a) Kary Mullis
(b) Volchting
(c) Webber
(d) Karl Ereky

8) Bt gene isolated by
(a) Barton et al.
(b) Fodor
(c) Williams
(d) Powell

9) Biotechnology is the use of biological agent
(a) Open
(b) Controlled
(c) Accessible
(d) Limited

10) The chemical used to protect cell or tissue against freezing injury is
(a) NH4
(b) Methyl sulphonate
(c) Dimethyl sulphonate
(d) DMSO