BIOTECH APPLICATION Flashcards
Father of Green Revolution? Brought by in India?
Norman.E.Borlaugh
M.S. Swaminathan
BT HAS?
Cry gene
Choice of gene (Cry)depends upon
Both the best and the plant (insect)
Orada genes for cotton boll worms and corn borer
cry I Ac , cry II Ab
cry I Ab
B.thuringiensis is harmful for?
Lepidoterens - Tobacco budworm, army worm, Corn borer, cotton bollworm
Coleopterens- beetles
Dipterens- mosquito, flies
Nematode caused what in tobacco plant
Root knot disease
Worldwide _______ recombinant therapeutics are used for? how many are marketed in India
30,
12
Eli Lilly??
synthesised 1st GM insulin in 1983
diff between pro insulin and mature insulin?
C peptide ka major diff hai
1st gene therapy performed in?
4 yr old in 1990 , suffering from ADA deficiency
What is introduced into the defective lymphocytes?
Retrovirus ADA C DNA
What are the techniques of molecular diagnosis?
Conventional methods Modern technique
What is the full form of ELISA? Why is it used?
Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
Both antigen and antibody are detected.
Examples of transgenic animals? max?
Ship monkey pig cow rabbit mice
95 percent are mice
alpha-1-antitrypsin obtained from? to treat?
Transgenic sheep Tracy
emphysema
Human alpha lactalbumin is? synthesised in?
protein
transgenic cow Rosie in 1997
present in 2.4 g/l protein in milk
GEAC?
Genetic Engineering Approval Committee
India has how many varieties of rice and how many varieties of basmati alone? Why Basmati is very famous?
2 lakh varieties
27 documented
Because of his grain size aroma and flavour
Indian parliament passed what regarding patents?
2nd amendment of Indian patent bill
