BioTechnology MCQs

Set of Important MCQs on BioTechnology for the preparation of tests for chemistry and biology. 

The most effective treatment for a genetic disorders in the present times is

  1. Genetic counseling
  2. Cloning
  3. Gene mapping
  4. Gene therapy

Question Answer: Gene therapy


DNA is a code for making which of the following?

  1. Proteins
  2. Vitamins
  3. Nucleosomes
  4. RNA

Question Answer: Proteins

Modern Biotechnology relied on advances in which of the following?

  1. Biochemistry and Physics
  2. Biosciences and ancient techniques
  3. Biology and chemical engineering
  4. Molecular Biology and computer technology

Question Answer: Molecular Biology and computer technology


In many electrophoresis units, the gel is mounted between two buffer chambers containing separate electrodes, so that electrical connection between chambers is through the

  1. Tubes
  2. Slab
  3. Gel
  4. Small Tub

Question Answer: Gel


In comparison to agarose gels, polyacrylamide gels are

  1. Large
  2. Small
  3. Internally linked.
  4. Tougher

Question Answer: Tougher


By Sandwich ELISA all these are determined excluding

  1. Polystyrene
  2. Tumor markers
  3. Biotin
  4. Hormones

Question Answer: Polystyrene


The global biotechnology market size in 2019 was valued around _______.

  1. Around USD 10 Million
  2. Around USD 200 Million
  3. Around USD 100 Million
  4. Around USD 450 billion

Question Answer: Around USD 450 billion


Major Breakthrough in history of biotechnology in 20th century was

  1. 3-D Structure of DNA
  2. Discovery of PCR
  3. Discovery of Penicillin
  4. All of these

Question Answer: All of these


Structure of DNA and genetic code, as well as transcription ad translation was explained

  1. Between 1900 and 1905
  2. Between 1945 and 1980
  3. Between 1960 and 1972
  4. Between 1952 and 1966

Question Answer: Between 1952 and 1966


Structure of Individual genes can be determined by Which of the following?

  1. Genetic Engineering
  2. DNA Sequencing
  3. Gene cloning
  4. Recombinant DNA technology

Question Answer: DNA Sequencing


Applications of the polymerase chain reaction include

  1. Obtaining pure samples of genes
  2. Sequences of annealing sites is not necessary long strands of DNA can be obtained
  3. Isolate genes not discovered before
  4. PCR saves time from months to weeks

Question Answer: Obtaining pure samples of genes


Inn Northern Blotting detection is performed by one of these

  1. Lem-ms
  2. Chemiluminescence
  3. Spectrophotometer
  4. Chromatography

Question Answer: Chemiluminescence


Standard method for the direct study of gene expression at the level of mRNA is

  1. Northern Blotting
  2. Reverse Transcription
  3. PCR
  4. Southern Blotting

Question Answer: Northern Blotting


DNA at a crime scene can be recovered from any substance having

  1. Knife
  2. Cloth
  3. Dust
  4. Cella

Question Answer: Cella


Biotechnology targets to enhance the product yield from living organism by

  1. Employing principles of bio-engineering
  2. Employing principles bio-process technology
  3. By genetically modifying the organisms
  4. All of these

Question Answer: All of these


Which of the following are the applications of biotechnology?

  1. Production of new enzymes and their immobilization for industrial use
  2. Production of transgenic in animal and plants, and tissue culture
  3. Applications in medicine as tools and therapeutics,
  4. All of these

Question Answer: All of these


One of the early applications of biotechnology in animal sciences was _____.

  1. To develop methods for production of GMOs for better food products
  2. To separate cheese and other food products from milk by bacteria
  3. To separate cheese and other food products from milk by enzyme and microbes
  4. To develop methods for production GMOs of ornamental value

Question Answer: To separate cheese and other food products from milk by enzyme and microbes


Which is the Principle of PCR?

  1. Probing
  2. DNA Replication
  3. Replication
  4. Hybridization

Question Answer: DNA Replication


Plants or animals created through the gene splicing or genetic engineering are called as;

  1. GMOs
  2. GMPs
  3. GMFS
  4. GMAs

Question Answer: GMOs


Yellow biotechnology is also known as ______.

  1. Desert Biotechnology
  2. Purple biotechnology
  3. Insect biotechnology
  4. Arid Biotechnology

Question Answer: Insect biotechnology


What is the Mutation rate in mitochondrial genome?

  1. 20 times higher than nuclear genome
  2. 80 times higher than nuclear genome
  3. 100 times higher than nuclear genome
  4. 15,000 times higher than nuclear genome

Question Answer: 100 times higher than nuclear genome


For the construction of genetic libraries, usually the DNA can be stored in which of the following?

  1. Plasmids
  2. Animals
  3. Plants
  4. Probe

Question Answer: Plasmids


Short strands of the primer are helpful and used in DNA replication in which part of cell?

  1. Histone
  2. DNA
  3. RNA
  4. Protein

Question Answer: RNA


Fungi are those which contain metabolites to develop drugs.

  1. Biological
  2. Chemical
  3. Macro fungi
  4. Medicinal

Question Answer: Medicinal


Insulin produced in bacterial expression system is called

  1. Bacterial Insulin
  2. Insulin
  3. Humulin
  4. Therapeutic Insulin

Question Answer: Humulin


Which of the following is the biotechnology that deals with aquatic organisms?

  1. White
  2. Green
  3. Blue
  4. Yellow

Question Answer: Blue


which of the following is the process in which Gene transfer from a donor to a recipient by way of a bacteriophage?

  1. Conjugation
  2. Transduction
  3. Transformation
  4. Translation

Question Answer: Transduction


Which of the following determines that in what amount each cell makes specific proteins?

  1. Nucleosides
  2. Amino acids
  3. RNA
  4. DNA

Question Answer: DNA


How much letters long is Mitochondrial DNA ?

  1. Three trillion
  2. 200-250
  3. 16,569
  4. 3270

Question Answer: 16,569


Stem cells can be obtained from Which of the following?

  1. Brain only
  2. Body tissues only
  3. From an embryo or body tissues
  4. Embryo only

Question Answer: From an embryo or body tissues


Which of the following bacterium is helpful in the production of insulin by genetic engineering?

  1. Saccharomyces
  2. Escherichia
  3. Rhizobium
  4. Mycobacterium

Question Answer: Escherichia


DNA Replication in cell is ____.

  1. Conservative and always bidirectional
  2. Semiconservative unique and unidirectional
  3. Semiconservative and bidirectional
  4. Conservative and unidirectional

Question Answer: Semiconservative and bidirectional


A stem cell line is composed of a population of cells that can replicate themselves for long periods of time;

  1. In Silico
  2. In Situ
  3. In Vitro
  4. In Vivo

Question Answer: In Vitro


The DNA ladder is made up of building blocks called;

  1. Amino acids
  2. Nucleotides
  3. Proteins
  4. Fatty acids

Question Answer: Nucleotides


To re-establish ecological wellbeing by improving regular biodegradation by local life forms is a general way to deal with;

  1. Bio-warfare
  2. Bio-terrorism
  3. Bio-remediation
  4. Bio-fertilizer

Question Answer: Bio-remediation


Recombinant DNA technology is a method for insertion of from one organism into another _____.

  1. Body fluids
  2. Essential minerals
  3. Genetic material
  4. Protein

Question Answer:  Genetic material


Gregor Mendel an Austrian monk conducted the first genetics experiments using which of the following?

  1. Bt cotton
  2. Bt Corn
  3. Pea plant
  4. Yeast

Question Answer: Pea plant


Which of the following are included in Applications of the polymerase chain reaction?

  1. Sequences of annealing sites is not necessary
  2. Obtaining pure samples of genes
  3. Isolate genes not discovered before
  4. PCR saves time from months to week

Question Answer: Obtaining pure samples of genes


Patents on biotechnological products are to be granted only on;

  1. Inventions
  2. Discoveries
  3. Detections
  4. All

Question Answer: Inventions


Prerequisite for transplantation of allogeneic stem cells is

  1. Allergy test
  2. Compatibility
  3. Blood type
  4. Histocompatibility

Question Answer: Histocompatibility


Which of the following s study is known for Changing the DNA in living organisms to no create something new?

  1. Genetic mutation
  2. Genetic expression
  3. Genetic engineering
  4. Grey Biotechnology

Question Answer: Genetic engineering


Electrophoresis is a technique helpful and used to purify ____.

  1. Macromolecules
  2. Nucleic Acids
  3. Proteins
  4. Charged particle in solution

Question Answer: Macromolecules


Restriction enzyme cuts the DNA fragments leaving _____

  1. No ends
  2. Sticky ends
  3. Rounded ends
  4. Coiled ends

Question Answer: Sticky ends


Development in genetic engineering has been possible due to the discovery of which of the following?

  1. Stem Cells Technology
  2. Oncogenes
  3. DNA discovery
  4. Restriction Enzymes

Question Answer: Restriction Enzymes


which of the following study is related withexcision and insertion of a gene from one organism to the other?

  1. Biotechnology
  2. Genetic engineering
  3. Cytogenetic
  4. Gene therapy

Question Answer: Genetic engineering


Which of the following is the process of using a natural predator to control a pathogen?

  1. Biological control
  2. Genetic engineering
  3. Confusion technique
  4. artificial control

Question Answer: Biological control


Mouse iPSCs demonstrate important characteristics of

  1. Unipotent stem cells
  2. Tumorigenic stem cells
  3. Pluripotent stem cells
  4. Follicular stem cells

Question Answer: Pluripotent stem cells


Agarose gel has a gelling temperature of

  1. 75-85 °C
  2. 60-70 °C
  3. 20-30 °C
  4. 35-42 °C

Question Answer: 35-42 °C


Genetically modified organisms are called;

  1. Microbes
  2. Micro-organisms
  3. Transgenic organism
  4. Pure-bred organisms

Question Answer: Transgenic organism


For biochemical function analysis of protein reaction recommended is

  1. Protein-protein
  2. Enzyme-substrate
  3. Antigen-Antibodies
  4. Receptor-Ligand enzyme.

Question Answer: Enzyme-substrate


The order of ___ determines what type of protein is made;

  1. DNA
  2. Mineral
  3. Vitamins
  4. Amino acids

Question Answer: Amino acids


Gene cloning includes all of the mentioned excluding ____

  1. A fragment of DNA, containing the gene to be cloned, is inserted into vector
  2. A recombinant DNA molecule is produced.
  3. Colony or clone of identical host cells is produced
  4. The vector transports the gene into a host cell, which is usually a fungus

Question Answer: The vector transports the gene into a host cell, which is usually a fungus


Stem cells can be all excluding Which of the following?

  1. Pluripotent
  2. Semipotent
  3. Unipotent
  4. Multipotent

Question Answer: Unipotent


The concept that genes reside on chromosome was first proposed by

  1. O. T. Avery
  2. W. Sutton
  3. McCarty
  4. Hugh Macleod

Question Answer: W. Sutton


Enzyme that is helpful and used to join nicks during DNA replication

  1. Primase
  2. DNA polymerase
  3. Endonuclease
  4. DNA ligase

Question Answer: DNA ligase


Gene cloning includes all of these excluding _.

  1. A fragment of DNA, containing the gene to be cloned, is inserted into vector
  2. A recombinant DNA molecule is produced.
  3. The vector transports the gene into a host cell, which is usually a fungus.
  4. Colony or clone of identical host cells is produced

Question Answer: The vector transports the gene into a host cell, which is usually a fungus


Which of the following PCR step is most variable with respect to temperature?

  1. Annealing
  2. Denaturation
  3. Extension
  4. Initial denaturation

Question Answer: Annealing


PCR can be helpful and used for the identification of  following agents excluding

  1. Hormonal
  2. Parasitic
  3. Fungal
  4. Bacterial

Question Answer: Hormonal


The calculated Tm of this Primer 5′-CC ACA GAG GAC TCT TGG TCT-3′, is:

  1. 44 °C
  2. 54 °C.
  3. 62 °C
  4. 58 °C.

Question Answer: 62 °C


Agarose and polyacrylamide differ in

  1. Physical Structure
  2. Making Porous Gels
  3. Two dimensional Structure
  4. Ionic Bonding

Question Answer: Physical Structure


Porous size of agarose gel helps to separate which of the followings?

  1. Most proteins
  2. Small oligonucleotides
  3. MicroRNA
  4. Large protein complexes

Question Answer: Large protein complexes


Roles of stem cells in our bodies

  1. They fight against infections
  2. They produce new specialized cells to replace damaged cells
  3. They perform specialized roles in the body
  4. They produce antibodies

Question Answer: They produce new specialized cells to replace damaged cells


DNA fragments can be joined together with the strong action of which of the following enzyme

  1. Ligase
  2. Polymerase
  3. Gyrase
  4. Helicase

Question Answer: Ligase


Western blot test is referred to as the

  1. Gold Standard
  2. Preliminary Teat
  3. Confirmatory Test
  4. Rapid Test

Question Answer: Gold Standard


In Nested PCR primers are helpful and used in

  1. Double Stranded Primers
  2. Forward and Reverse Primers
  3. Two Sets
  4. One Set

Question Answer: Two Sets


Multiplex PCR is helpful and used for detection of

  1. Multiple Pathogens
  2. Genomic DNA
  3. Viral DNA
  4. Pathogen

Question Answer: Multiple Pathogens


Cloning is a form of Which of the following?

  1. Meiosis
  2. Sexual reproduction
  3. Asexual
  4. Fertilization

Question Answer: Asexual


Phosphate buffer is helpful and used for which of the following?

  1. Low conductivity.
  2. Nucleic Acid Separation
  3. High buffering capacity
  4. Enzyme separation

Question Answer: Enzyme separation


Subtye of Zone Electrophoresis is _____.

  1. Moving Boundary
  2. Cellulose acetate
  3. Micro electrophoresis
  4. Free Electrophoresis

Question Answer: Cellulose acetate


Polyacrylamide gel is

  1. Non-toxic
  2. Bufotoxin
  3. Potent Neurotoxic
  4. diphtheria toxic

Question Answer: Potent Neurotoxic


True replication of DNA is due to which of the following?

  1. Phosphate backbone
  2. Hydrogen bonding
  3. Complementary base pairing rule.
  4. Primer

Question Answer: Complementary base pairing rule.


cDNA synthesis from RNA is performed by the enzyme

  1. Reverse transcriptase
  2. DNA polymerase
  3. DNA synthetase
  4. DNA convertase

Question Answer: Reverse transcriptase


During DNA replication the synthesis of the in fragments leading strand of DNA results known as

  1. Double-helix segment
  2. Okazaki fragments
  3. Kornberg segment
  4. Satellite segments

Question Answer: Okazaki fragments


The mRNA codon of alanine are all excluding

  1. GCC
  2. GCA
  3. GUU
  4. GCU

Question Answer: GUU


The gene formed by combination of DNA segments from two different origins is called.

  1. Recombinant DNA
  2. Pseudo gene
  3. Linked
  4. Chimeric Gene.

Question Answer: Chimeric Gene


Enzyme immunoassay (EIA) was the first screening test commonly employed for

  1. Hep A
  2. HIV
  3. HCV
  4. Hep C

Question Answer: HIV


Specimen for ELISA can be all excluding

  1. Stem Cells
  2. Sputum
  3. Blood
  4. CSF

Question Answer: Stem Cells


In competitive ELISA bound enzyme conjugate reacts with the chromogenic substrate added to produce

  1. Yellow to blue color
  2. Blue to grey color
  3. Blue to yellow color
  4. Red to blue color

Question Answer: Blue to yellow color


Which of the following are the Enzymes most commonly helpful and used in Elisa?

  1. Replicas
  2. Helicase
  3. Alkaline Phosphatase
  4. Horseradish peroxidase

Question Answer: Horseradish peroxidase


In ELISA, which of the following is not helpful and used as primary antibody?

  1. Antihuman IgA
  2. IgA
  3. IgM
  4. Human serum IgG

Question Answer: Antihuman IgA


Which of the following is the process of replacing a mutated gene that causes disease with a healthy copy of the gene?

  1. Gene Physiology
  2. Gene editing
  3. Gene Therapy
  4. Allele morphology

Question Answer: Gene Therapy


Which of the following is an allele?

  1. One of several possible forms a gene
  2. A homozygous genotype
  3. A heterozygous genotype
  4. Another word for a gene

Question Answer: One of several possible forms a gene


When the genotype consists of a dominant and a recessive allele, the phenotype will be like ___ allele.

  1. The dominant
  2. The recessive
  3. None of these
  4. It is random

Question Answer: The dominant


The concept that different pairs of alleles are passed to offspring independently is principle of:

  1. Independent assortment
  2. Segregation
  3. Blending inheritance
  4. Unit inheritance

Question Answer: Independent assortment


The concept that for any particular trait, the pair of alleles of each parent separate and only one allele from each parent passes to an offspring is Mendel’s principle of:

  1. Independent assortment
  2. Hybridization
  3. Inbreeding
  4. Segregation

Question Answer: Segregation


The innate tendency of offspring to resemble their parents is called:

  1. Variation
  2. Heredity
  3. Inheritance
  4. Resemblance

Question Answer: Inheritance


If different alleles are present in the same genotype then it is known as ______.

  1. Heterozygous
  2. Polygenic
  3. Diallelic
  4. Homozygous

Question Answer: Heterozygous


A heterozygous individual can produce how many types of gametes?

  1. 1
  2. 3
  3. Many
  4. 2

Question Answer: 2


All of these obey Mendel’s law excluding:

  1. Segregation
  2. Dominance
  3. Linkage
  4. Independent assortment

Question Answer: Linkage


Each gamete carries

  1. Only one of the alleles
  2. Only dominant allele
  3. Only recessive allele
  4. None of these

Question Answer: Only one of the alleles


A test cross is helpful and used to determine which of the following?

  1. Phenotype
  2. Genotype
  3. Both of these
  4. None of these

Question Answer: Genotype


Polyploidy refers to which of the following?

  1. Extra copies of a gene adjacent to each other on a chromosome
  2. An individual with complete extra sets of chromosomes
  3. A chromosome which has replicated but not divided
  4. Multiple ribosomes present on a single mrna

Question Answer: An individual with complete extra sets of chromosomes


Gene showing dominance:

  1. Has alleles that are recessive to
  2. Has one allele dominant to the other
  3. Has alleles tightly linked on the same chromosome
  4. each Has both alleles independently expressed in the heterozygote

Question Answer: Has both alleles independently expressed in the heterozygote


Independent assortment refers to which of the following?

  1. Expression at the same stage of development
  2. Unlinked transmission of genes in crosses resulting from being located on different chromosomes, or far apart on the same chromosome.
  3. Independent location of genes from each other in an interphase cell
  4. Association of a protein and a DNA sequence implying related function

Question Answer: Unlinked transmission of genes in crosses resulting from being located on different chromosomes, or far apart on the same chromosome


Mendel’s law of segregation, as applied to the behavior of chromosomes in meiosis, means that:

  1. Pairing of homologs will convert one. allele into the other, leading to separation of the types.
  2. Alleles of a gene separate from each other when homologe separate in meiosis i, or in meiosis ii if there in a single crossover between the gene and the centromere.
  3. Genes on the same chromosome will show 50% recombination
  4. Alleles of a gene will be linked and passed on together through meiosis

Question Answer: Alleles of a gene separate from each other when homologe separate in meiosis i, or in meiosis ii if there in a single crossover between the gene and the centromere


Southern blotting is named after which of the following?

  1. W.S. Southern
  2. Edwin Southern
  3. South American Scientist
  4. South pole

Question Answer: Edwin Southern


Southern blotting method Involves all of these excluding

  1. Transfer

B: Separation

  1. Absorption
  2. Hybridization

Question Answer: Absorption


Formation of a double-stranded DNA molecule between a single-stranded DNA probe and a single-stranded target DNA

  1. Blotting
  2. Hybridization
  3. Migration
  4. Annealing

Question Answer: Hybridization


In southern blotting probe bound to the filter is detected by

  1. Hybridization probe
  2. Auto immunology
  3. Radiography.
  4. Autoradiography

Question Answer: Autoradiography


Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) can be detected by which of the following?

  1. Blotting methods
  2. Southern Blotting
  3. Northern Blotting
  4. ELISA

Question Answer: Southern Blotting


Which of the following is the technique that is a prerequisite for immunoblotting

  1. Chromatography
  2. Sandwich ELISA
  3. SDS PAGE
  4. Multiplex PCR

Question Answer: SDS PAGE


In Western Blotting proteins are transferred from the gel to the surface of a nitrocellulose membrane by which of the following?

  1. Blotting
  2. Autioradiography
  3. Adsorption
  4. Electroblotting

Question Answer: Electroblotting


A Western blot is also helpful and used as the definitive test for

  1. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
  2. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
  3. Leukemias
  4. HIV

Question Answer: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)


DNA or cDNA is quantified by

  1. PCR
  2. Molecular beacons probes
  3. qPCR
  4. TaqMan probes

Question Answer: qPCR


All are true about PAGE excluding

  1. Cannot be helpful and used as support media.
  2. It is a subtype of the gel electrophoresis
  3. Most widely helpful and used technique of electrophoresis.
  4. Made by free radical-induced polymerization

Question Answer: Cannot be helpful and used as support media


Types of PAGE include

  1. Native PAGE
  2. Vertical Gel
  3. Horizontal GEL
  4. Triton PAGE

Question Answer: Native PAGE

Colorimetric detection system is helpful and used for all these techniques excluding

  1. Northern Blotting
  2. Western Blotting
  3. Southern Blotting
  4. PCR

Question Answer: PCR


ELISA can detect in solution up to

  1. mg/mL
  2. pg/mL
  3. g/ml
  4. kg/l

Question Answer: pg/mL


Environment Biotechnology involves

  1. The Study of Benefits and hazards associated with GMO
  2. Bioremediation
  3. Use of microbes to clean environment
  4. All of these

Question Answer: All of these


Environmental biotechnologists improve and optimize conditions to make efficient-existing

  1. Species
  2. Variety of organisms
  3. Microbes
  4. Biological Systems

Question Answer: Biological Systems

Better environment and workplace safety is offered to manufacturing industries in terms of applications of environmental biotechnology other than

  1. Essential careful monitoring and process control
  2. Compliance with environmental legislation and codes.
  3. Cost effective means of reducing the pollution potential
  4. Highly specific enzymatic processes typically functioning at high temperature and pressure

Question Answer: Cost effective means of reducing the pollution potential


Gene therapy in humans was first practiced by Blease and Andresco to cure

  1. Cystic Fibrosis
  2. Thalassemia
  3. SCID
  4. Hemophilia

Question Answer: SCID


Short strands of the _____ in DNA replication in cell.

  1. DNA
  2. Protein
  3. Histone
  4. RNA

Question Answer: RNA


Human DNA is 98% similar to which of the following?

  1. Fish
  2. Chimpanzees
  3. Mouse
  4. Chicken

Question Answer: Chimpanzees


What is the  gelling temperature of Agarose gel?

  1. 75-85 °C
  2. 40-50 °C
  3. 35-42 °C
  4. 60-70 °C

Question Answer: 35-42 °C


Which of the following is most controversial approach in gene therapy

  1. Antisense therapy
  2. Ex Vivo gene therapy
  3. Somatic cell gene therapy
  4. Germ line gene therapy

Question Answer: Germ line gene therapy


Bioaugmentation involves

  1. Eliminating sludge
  2. Plants usage for bioremediation
  3. Addition of microbes to a cleanup site
  4. Bioventing

Question Answer: Addition of microbes to a cleanup site


Asprgilus fumiatus uses ______ as substrate for Single Cell Protein production

  1. Glucose
  2. Sulphite waste liquor
  3. Starch
  4. None of these

Question Answer: Glucose


With the development of the modern corporation, patent rights are always assigned to;

  1. University
  2. Individual
  3. Company
  4. None

Question Answer: Company


Bioinformatics has been utilized for ______ examinations of natural inquiries;

  1. In Situ
  2. In Silico
  3. In Vivo
  4. In Vitro

Question Answer: In Silico


Which of these biosensors use the principle of heat released or absorbed by a reaction?

  1. Piezo-electric biosensors
  2. Optical biosensors
  3. Calorimetric biosensors
  4. Potentiometric biosensor

Question Answer: Calorimetric biosensors


Which of the following biosensors use the movement of electrons produced during redox reactions?

  1. Piezo-electric biosensors
  2. Potentiometric biosensors
  3. Optical biosensors
  4. Amperometric biosensor

Question Answer: Amperometric biosensor


Father of biosensor:

  1. Louis Pasteur
  2. Alexander Fleming
  3. Leeland C Clark
  4. Karry Mullis

Question Answer: Leeland C Clark


Which one of the following is helpful and used as a microbial insecticide?

  1. polymixa
  2. Bacillus thuringenesis
  3. Neem extracts
  4. Honey

Question Answer: Bacillus thuringenesis


Which of the following Technology was adopted quickly in the history of agriculture?

  1. Genetic engineering
  2. Somatic hybridization
  3. Tissue culturing
  4. Biotechnology

Question Answer: Biotechnology


Biotechnology is the summation of activities involving technological tools and living organism to

  1. Enhance the efficiency of the production
  2. Use of microbes for betterment of environment
  3. Use Animals and plants as human food sources
  4. Use of living organisms for industrial purposes

Question Answer: Enhance the efficiency of the production


Enzyme substrate TMB stands for ________.

  1. Tetramethylbenzidine
  2. 35’3’5-tetramethylbenzidine
  3. 3,3,5,5-tetramethylbenzidine
  4. 3’5′ tetramethylbenzidine

Question Answer: 3,3,5,5-tetramethylbenzidine


Phenotype refers to the _____ of an individual

  1. Genetic makeup
  2. Actual physical appearance
  3. Recessive alleles
  4. Shared haplotype

Question Answer: Actual physical appearance


How much letters long  is genetically modified organism?

  1. Rice
  2. Brinjal
  3. Cotton
  4. Bt-cotton

Question Answer: Bt-cotton


Polyacrylamide gel is ______.

  1. Potent Neurotoxic
  2. Bufotoxin
  3. diphtheria toxic
  4. Nontoxic

Question Answer: Potent Neurotoxic


For treatment of bones and wounds, Which of the following are being helpful and used to create a source of medical grade collagen?

  1. Jellyfish
  2. Algae
  3. Bone Marrow
  4. Jelly Beans

Question Answer: Jellyfish


Which of the following is the first step in genetic engineering?

  1. Growth of GMO
  2. Insertion of gene into vector
  3. Expression of gene
  4. Isolation of gene of interest

Question Answer: Isolation of gene of interest


Short strands of the primer are helpful and used in DNA replication in which part of cell?

  1. Protein
  2. DNA
  3. Histone
  4. RNA

Question Answer: RNA


Which of the following are the Small animals that float on the surface of water?

  1. Zooplanktona
  2. Limnos
  3. Plankton
  4. benthos

Question Answer: Zooplanktona

Biotechnology (MCQs)

    1. Biotechnology MCQs
    2. Intro to Biotechnology MCQs
    3. Agricultural Biotechnology MCQs
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    6. inorganic Chemistry MCQs
    7. Organic Chemistry MCQs
    8. Ecology MCQs
    9. Biodiversity MCQs
    10. Environmental Policy MCQs
    11. Psychology MCQs
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    13. Cell Biology MCQs
    14. Genetics MCQs
    15. Analytical Chemistry  MCQs
    16. Molecular Biology MCQs
    17. Microbiology and Immunology MCQs
    18. Biodiversity And Conservation MCQs
    19. Agriculture Biotechnology MCQs
    20. Genomics MCQs,
    21. Fungal Biotechnology MCQs
    22. Cell and Tissue Culture MCQs
    23. Virology MCQs

 

Physical Chemistry
Biological Physics

Discipline-Specific
Foundation Courses

Biochemistry

Probability &
Biostatistics

Methods in Molecular Biology

Genetic Resources & Conservation

Microbial Biotechnology

Principles of Biochemical Engineering
Health Biotechnology Environmental
Biotechnology
Food Biotechnology
Proteomics
Bioinformatics
Industrial Biotechnology
Research Methodology &
Skill Enhancement

Principles of Biochemical Engineering
Methods in Molecular Biology
Bioinformatics
Immunology
Analytical Chemistry & Instrumentation
Probability & Biostatistics
Biological Physics
Genetic Resources & Conservation
Microbial Biotechnology
Health Biotechnology
Environment Biotechnology
Genomics and Proteomics
Industrial Biotechnology
Biosafety & Bioethics

LIST OF ELECTIVE COURSES
Animal Biotechnology
Marine Biotechnology
Radiobiology
Nano Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Biosensors
Biofuels and Bio-refineries
Molecular Diagnostics
Fermentation Biotechnology