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प्रश्न
“Biotechnology is not only beneficial but it has some harmful effects too.” Express your opinion about this statement.
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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.
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______ is the revolutionary event in biotechnology after cloning.
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| a. | Interferon | 1. | Diabetes |
| b. | Factor | 2. | Dwarfness |
| c. | Somatostatin | 3. | Viral infection |
| d. | Interleukin | 4. | Cancer |
| 5. | Haemophilia |
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Use of bioiogy in industrial process and for improving quality of life is called ______.
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Which of the following is a technique involved in genetic engineering?
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