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Purpose of Biotechnology MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
Edited By admin | Updated on Sep 18, 2023 18:34 AM | #NEET
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Read the following statements and select the correct ones.
1) Vaccine is a preparation (or suspension) of a dead/attenuated pathogen of a disease which on inoculation (or injection) into a healthy person , provides temporary/permanent active/passive immunity by inducing antibody formation
2) Immunisation is the process by which the body produces antibodies against the vaccine-preventable diseases through the administration of specific vaccines
3) The principle of immunisation or vaccination is based on the property of 'memory' of the immune system
4) If a person is infected with some deadly microbes to which a quick immune response is required; in that case, we need to directly inject the performed antibodies or antitoxins e. , in case of tetanus
The most widely recognized application of biotechnology is the development of therapeutic proteins and other drugs through _________.
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Purpose of Biotechnology
- Biotechnology essentially deals with industrial-scale production of biopharmaceuticals and biologicals using genetically modified microbes, fungi, plants and animals.
- The applications of biotechnology include:
- therapeutics,
- diagnostics,
- genetically modified crops for agriculture,
- processed food,
- bioremediation,
- waste treatment, and
- energy production.
- Three critical research areas of biotechnology are:
- Providing the best catalyst in the form of the improved organism is usually a microbe or pure enzyme.
- Creating optimal conditions through engineering for a catalyst to act, and
- Downstream processing technologies to purify the protein/organic compound.
- Plants, bacteria, fungi and animals whose genes have been altered by manipulation are called Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO).
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