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Question
Insect-resistant transgenic cotton has been produced by inserting a piece of DNA from ______.
Options
an insect
a bacterium
a wild relative of cotton
a virus
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Solution
Insect-resistant transgenic cotton has been produced by inserting a piece of DNA from a bacterium.
Explanation:
Bt cotton carries a gene from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. The inserted gene enables the cotton plant to produce an insecticidal Cry protein.
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