Class 12 - Biology - Biotechnology and Its Applications (Very Short Answer Based Questions - Solved)
Q1. What are Transgenic crops?
Answer: Genetically modified crops that contain or express one or more useful foreign genes are called transgenic crops.
Q2. What are transgenic animals? Give an example.
Answer: Animals manipulated with the foreign gene and have the ability to express it are transgenic animals. e.g. Rosie, a transgenic cow produced milk containing human alpha-lactalbumin.
Q3. What is BT toxin?
Answer: Bt toxin is an intracellular crystalline protein. It exists as an inactive protoxin that once ingested by an insect, gets activated, binds to the surface of midgut epithelial cells. This causes cell swelling and lysis, leading to the death of an insect.