Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
“Biotechnology is not only beneficial but it has some harmful effects too.” Express your opinion about this statement.
Advertisements
उत्तर
- Advantages:
- High yield in less time and less expenses.
- We can avoid the use of pesticides and thereby pollution.
- Quality of the food and food-grains has been improved.
- Disadvantages:
- Attempts to develop ‘super-human’ through genetic manipulation.
- No study about long-term effects of GM crops on environment and living organisms.
- Financial loot of poor countries and farmers due to monopoly through patenting of GM crops.
- Genetically modified pest-resistant crops may prove harmful to beneficial insects.
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
______ is the revolutionary event in biotechnology after cloning.
Match the pairs.
| a. | Interferon | 1. | Diabetes |
| b. | Factor | 2. | Dwarfness |
| c. | Somatostatin | 3. | Viral infection |
| d. | Interleukin | 4. | Cancer |
| 5. | Haemophilia |
Complete the following chart.
Write two uses of biotechnology related to human health.
Write a short note.
Genetic engineering
Explain traditional use of Biotechnology.
Define biotechnology. Give any three application of it?
Write two names of crops genetically developed.
Use of non-genetic biotechnological techniques.
Non-genetic technology involves mutations in cell genes.
High class of varieties of crops have been developed through the techniques of organ transplantation.
Define.
Biotechnology
Write a short note.
Biotechnology
What does biotechnology include?
Identify the products that are NOT produced using fermentation technology.
Curd, Ghee, Relaxin, Vinegar, Insulin, Yoghurt, Cheese, Wine, Erythropoietin
On which of the following two core techniques modem biotechnology is based?
Which organization provided the following definition of biotechnology?
'Biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents to provide goods and service to the human welfare'.
Which of the following was developed and then established by Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer?
Study the following statements regarding recombinant DNA technology and select the correct one.
Which statement is correct for bacterial transduction?
