CET Karnataka Medical CET - Karnataka Medical Solved Paper-2012

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    This is not a GMO.

    A)  Btbrinjal        

    B)  Golden rice

    C)  Tracy           

    D)  Dolly

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

    : Plants, bacteria, fungi and animals whose genes have been altered by manipulation are called Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO). They contain and express one or more useful foreign genes (transgenes). Bt brinjal, golden rice, tracy, rosie, etc., are genetically modified organisms. Dolly was a cloned sheep (first mammal to be cloned) born on 5th July 1996 at Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. During the process of cloning Dolly, a cell was collected from the mammary gland of a female Finn Dorset! Sheep and its nucleus was removed and inserted into enucleated egg cell of Scottish blackface sheep. This egg was implanted into the uterus of the latter and Dolly was born. Hence, Dolly was   clone of Finn Dorsett sheep.


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