question_answer 22)

  Golden rice is (a) a variety of rice grown along the yellow river in China (b) long stored rice having yellow colour tint (c) a transgenic rice having gene for (3 - carotene (d) wild variety of rice with yellow coloured grains

Answer:

                  (c) Golden rice is a genetically modified crop with enhanced nutritional value. It is rich invitamin-A, carotene and was developed at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. It contains  carotene' gene from daffodil plant and also genes from some bacteria. Golden rice prevents child blindness which is caused due to the deficiency of vitamin-A.