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1.
Why are bacteriophages used as vectors in RDT?
2.
Would you choose an exonuclease for producing a recombinant DNA molecule?
3.
Write the importance of the bacterium Thermus aquaticus in polymerase chain reaction.
4.
How does an alien DNA gain entry into a plant cell by 'biolistic' method?
5.
How do interferons protect us?
6.
State the function of mast cells in allergy response
7.
Name two commonly used bioreactors. State the importance of using a bioreactor.
8.
Identify a,b,c,and d in the following table:
|
Name of the human disease |
Name of the casual bacteria/virus |
Specific organ or its part affected |
|---|---|---|
|
1. Typhoid |
Salmonella typhi |
a |
|
2. Common cold |
b |
c |
|
3. Pneumonia |
Streptococcus pneumoniae |
d |
9.
Name the cry genes that control cotton bollworm and corn border, respectively.
10.
Why does a doctor administer tetanus antitoxoid and not a tetanus vaccine to a child injured in a roadside accident with a bleeding wound?Explain.
11.
Name and explain the type of immunity that is provided by injecting microbes deliberately during immunisation into the human body.
12.
How does silencing of specific mRNA in RNA interference prevent parasitic infestation?
13.
An antibody molecule is represented as H2 L2 Explain.
14.
Describe the process of gene amplification for rDNA technology experiments.
15.
Mention the name of the causal organism,symptoms and the mode of transmission of the disease,Amoebiasis.
16.
What does 'Hind' and 'III' refer to in the enzyme 'Hind III'?
17.
Anil's grandfather read in the newspaper about golden rice. Being a farmer, he asked Anil to get more information from his teacher about this rice.Teacher explained to him that it is a new variety of rice which in precursor of vitamin A and his will be useful for rice eating poor population.
Read the above passage and answer the following questions:
(i) What is golden rice?
(ii) Why is it beneficial for rice eating poor population?
(iii) What values is displayed by Anil's grandfather?
18.
(a) Cancer is one of the most dreaded disease of humans.Explain 'Contact inhibition' and 'Metastasis' with respect to the disease.
(b)Name the group of genes which have been identified in normal cells that could lead to cancer and how they do so?
(c) Name any two techniques which are useful to detect cancers of internal organs.
(d)Why are cancer patients often given \(\alpha \) interferon as part of the treatment?
19.
Describe the asexual and sexual phases of life cycle of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans.
20.
(a)With the help of diagrams show the different steps in the formation of recombinant DNA by action of restriction endonuclease enzyme EcoRI.
(b)Name the technique that is used for separating the fragments of DNA cut by restriction endonucleases.
1.
( )
Bacteriophages are used as vectors because of very high copy number of their genome within the bacterial cells. Also, they have the ability to gain an easy entry into the bacterial hosts in order to produce large number of recombinant DNA.
2.
( )
No, because exonucleases will remove the nucleotides from the ends DNA molecule and not at any particular desired region.
3.
( )
It is the source of thermostable DNA-polymerase enzyme.
4.
( )
The cell are bombarded with high velocity micro-particles of gold or tungsten coated with the alien DNA.
5.
( )
Interferons protect the non-infected cells from viral infection.
6.
( )
Mast cells release chemicals like sertonin and histamine,which cause allergy.
7.
(i) Simple stirred-tank bioreactor.
(ii) Sparged stirred-tank bioreactor.
Large volumes of culture can be processed in bioreactors for commercial production of the product.
8.
a - Small intestine.
b - Rhino viruses
c - Nose,respiratory passage
d - Alveoil of lungs
9.
cryl Ac and cry II Ab control cotton bollworm and cryl Ab controls corn borer.
10.
1. Tetanus antitoxin,i.e. preformed antibodies for tetanus are injected,as the child infected with deadly microbe (tetanus bacteria) to which quick immunisation response is required.
2. If tetanus vaccine is injected,it will take some time for the body to develop antibodies and this can lead to a fatal end.
11.
1. Active immunity is produced by injecting the microbes deliberately during immunisation.
2. Antibodies are produced by the B-cells of our body in response to the antigens;they neutralise the pathogenic agents during actual infection.
3. The vaccines also generate memory B-cells and T-cells,which recognise the same pathogen on subsequent exposure and destroy them by a massive production of antibodies.
12.
RNA interference is a gene-silencing process that blocks the expression of genes in the parasite when it enters the host's body.
13.
Each antibody molecule has four polypeptide chains.
Of them,two are small and called light chains (L) and two of them are longer and called heavy chains(H) hence written as H2 L2.
14.
Polymerase Chain Reaction:
Multiple copies of the desired gene or segment of DNA, can be synthesised in vitro using two sets of primers, the oligonucleotides that are complementary to the regions of DNA of the two strands and the enzyme DNA polymerase.
This enzyme extends the primers using the nucleotides provided in the reaction and the genomic DNA as the template.
For repeated amplification to be achieved, a thermostable DNA polymerase (Taq polymerase), extracted from the bacterium, Thermus aquaticus is employed; it remains active during the high temperature treatment used for denaturation and separation of the two strands.
15.
(a) Amoebiasis is caused by Entamoeba histolytica.
(b) Symptoms:
(i) Constipation
(ii) Abdominal cramps and pain.
(iii) Stool with excess mucus and blood clots.
Transmission
Drinking water and food contaminated with the faeces of infected persons.
Houseflies act as mechanical carriers and transmit the parasite from faeces to food and water.
16.
( )
The first letter 'H' indicates the genus of the organism, from which the enzyme was isolaled, i.e. H-genus, Haemophilus.
The roman number (IIl) denotes the sequence in which the restriction endonuclease from that particular genus, species and strain of bacteria have been isolated, i.e. third restriction endonuclease to be isolated from this species.
17.
(i) Golden rice is variety of rice in which rice grain has a coating of beta carotene, a precursor of vitamin A.
(ii) It is very useful for poor rice eating human population which generally suffers from vitamin A deficiency.
(iii) Being a farmer, Anil's grandfather was concerned about the latest development in agriculture and wanted to grow such varieties which provide better nutrition contents to human beings.
18.
(a) (i) Normal cells whow a property celled contact inhibition by virtue of which contact with other cells inhibits their uncontrolled growth.Cancer cells appear to have lost this property and as result continue to divide to give masses of cells called tumours.
(ii) Metastasis: Cancerous cells sloughed off from tumours reach distant sites through blood or other body fluids and start a tumour there.This property is called metastasis.It is the most fearsome property of malignant tumours.
(b) (i) Viral oncogenes
(ii) Cellular oncogenes (C-onc) or proto-oncogenes when activated under certain conditions, whether could head to oncogenic transfermation of the cells.
(c) Technique like radiography (use of X-rays),CT (Compiled Tomography) and MRI (magnetic Resonance Imaging are useful to detect cancer of internal organs.
(d) \(\alpha \)-interferons are biological response modifiers are given to cancer patients.These substances activate immune system and help in destroy the tumour.
19.
Asexual Phase
It occurs in the human host. The sporozoites enter the human body through the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito.
They reach the liver through blood and multiply within the liver cells.
Such liver cells burst and release the parasite into blood.
The parasite enters RBCs, multiply in them and cause their rupture.
The rupture of RBCs is associated with the release of a toxin, called haemozoin, which is responsible for the chill/shivering and the high temperature (fever) of the body. Sexual Phase
It starts with the formation of gametocytes in the RBCs of man.
The parasite then enters the female Anopheles mosquito, along with the blood when it bites the infected person.
Further development occurs in the stomach wall of mosquito.
The gametes fuse to form a zygote. The zygote undergoes further development to form sporozoites.
Sporozoites are transported to and stored in the salivary glands of the mosquito and are transferred to a human body during the bite of the mosquito.
20.
Genetic engineering. It is a technique for artificially and deliberately modifying DNA (genes) to suit human needs. It is also called recombinant DNA technology or DNA splicing. It is a kind of biotechnology
Steps in genetic engineering:
1. Identification and isolation of agronomically important genes.
2. Cloning of isolate genes in a vector.
3. Introduction of gene into plant protoplast cell

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