$BT$  cotton is resistant to

  • A

    Insect

  • B

    Herbicides

  • C

    Salt

  • D

    Drought

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$(i)$ Bacillus thuringiensis are available in sachets as dried spores which are mixed with kerosine and sprayed on to vulnerable plants

$(ii)$ B. thuringiensis are used to control butterfly caterpillars, but leave other insects unharmed

$(iii) $ The toxin of B. thuringiensis is released in the blood of larvae and the larvae get killed

$(iv)$ By the development of methods of genetic engineering B. thuringiensis toxin genes have been introduced

Highlight any four areas where genetic modification of plants has been useful.

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