Molecular Farming MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

• Production of proteins encoded by transgenes in animals or crops is called molecular farming.
• Plants are cheap and amazing chemical factories that need only water, minerals, sunlight, and CO2 to produce thousands of sophisticated molecules. 

Production of hirudin:

• Brassica napus have been used for the synthesis of hirudin.
• Hirudin is a protein that prevents blood clotting. 
• Hirudin accumulates in the seeds from where it is extracted and used as medicine.
• Hirudin is a potent inhibitor of thrombin. Thus, it has a high therapeutic value in the treatment of thrombosis.
• Hirudin gene inserted in Brassica napus was synthesized chemically in E. coli and yeast and was found to be a reasonable success.