Cultivation of $Bt$ cotton has been much in the news. The prefix $Bt$ means

  • [AIIMS 2008]
  • A

    barium-treated cotton seeds

  • B

    bigger thread variety of cotton with better tensile strength

  • C

    produced by biotechnology using restriction enzymes and ligases

  • D

    carrying an endotoxin gene from Bacillus thuringiensis

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Bt toxin gene have been expressed in plant in order to provide resistance against

$I.$ tobacco budworm and armyworm

$II.$ Beetles

$III.$ Flies and mosquitoes

Choose the correct option.

........... gene control the corn borer.

$B t$ cotton variety that was developed by the introduction of toxin gene of Bacillus thuringiensis $(Bt)$ is resistant to 

  • [NEET 2020]

The tumour inducing capacity of Agrobacterium tumefaciens is located in large extra chromosomal plasmids called

$A$ : Biofortified crops such as golden rice are helpful in overcoming the problem of night blindness in developing nations.

$R $ : It has enhanced nutritional content of vitamin $A.$