Other Gm Crops

An improved variety of transgenic basmati rice:

1.	does not require chemical fertilizers and growth hormones
2.	gives high yield and is rich in vitamin-A
3.	is completely resistant to all insect pests and diseases of paddy
4.	gives high yield but has no characteristic aroma

Consumption of which one of the following foods can prevent the kind of blindness associated with vitamin-A deficiency?

1.	Flaver savr tomato	2.	Canolla
3.	Golden rice	4.	Bt-brinjal

Golden rice is a genetically modified crop plant where the incorporated gene is meant for the biosynthesis of:

1.	Vitamin-B	2.	Vitamin-C
3.	Omega 3	4.	Vitamin-A

Which of the following is true for Golden rice?

1.	It has yellow grains, because of gene introduced from a primitive variety of rice
2.	It is Vitamin A enriched, with a gene from daffodil
3.	It is pest resistant, with a gene from Bacillus thuringiensis
4.	It is drought tolerant, developed using Agrobacterium vector

Silencing of specific mRNA is possible via RNAi because of -
1. Complementary tRNA
2. Non-complementary ssRNA
3. Complementary dsRNA
4. Inhibitory ssRNA