What is biopiracy?
Concept: Ethical Issues
Give the applications of DNA fingerprinting technique.
Concept: DNA Fingerprinting Technique
Represent diagrammatically three kinds of age-pyramids for human populations.
Concept: Population > Population Attributes
How do cytokine barriers provide innate immunity in humans?
Concept: Immunity
Name two diseases whose spread can be controlled by the eradication of Aedes mosquitoes.
Concept: Common Diseases in Human Beings
Name the source plant of heroin drug. How is it obtained from the plant?
Concept: Drugs and Alcohol Abuse > Effects of Drug and Alcohol
Explain the mechanism of 'sex determination' in birds. How does it differ from that of human beings?
Concept: Sex Determination
How has the development of bioreactor helped in biotechnology?
Concept: Process and Principles of Biotechnology
How has the development of bioreactor helped in biotechnology?
Concept: Process and Principles of Biotechnology
Name the most commonly used bioreactor and describe its working.
Concept: Process and Principles of Biotechnology
Name the most commonly used bioreactor and describe its working.
Concept: Process and Principles of Biotechnology
Explain the roles of the following with the help of an example each in recombinant DNA technology :
Restriction Enzymes
Concept: Tools of Recombinant DNA Technology > Restriction Enzymes
Explain the roles of the following with the help of an example each in recombinant DNA technology :
Plasmids
Concept: Tools of Recombinant DNA Technology > Competent Host (For Transformation with Recombinant DNA)
Differentiate between Parthenocarpy and Parthenogenesis. Give one example of each.
Concept: Types of Reproduction > Sexual Reproduction
Write the scientific name of the organism Thomas Hunt Morgan and his colleagues worked with for their experiments. Explain the correlation between linkage and recombination with respect to genes as studied by them.
Concept: Linkage and Crossing Over
How did Sturtevant explain gene mapping while working with Morgan?
Concept: Linkage and Crossing Over
Following are the responses of different animals to various abiotic factors. Describe each one with the help of an example.
1) Regulate
2) Conform
3) Migrate
4) Suspend
Concept: Organism and Its Environment > Major Abiotic Factors
Write the dual purpose served by Deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates in the polymerisation.
Concept: Structure of Nucleotide
Mention the chemical change that proinsulin undergoes, to be able to act as mature insulin
Concept: Introduction of Biotechnology and Its Application
You have obtained a high yielding variety of tomato. Name and explain the procedure that ensures retention of the desired characteristics repeatedly in large populations of future generations of the tomato crop.
Concept: Tissue Culture
