Multiple choice

Which of the following groups represents ‘approved transgenic crops’ only?

  1. Soybean, cotton, potato and chicory

  2. Soybean, cotton, maize and banyan

  3. Potato, chicory, banyan and poppy

  4. Poppy, amaltash, cotton and chicory

  5. Soybean, chicory, amaltash and poppy
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Explanation

Transgenic crops like - corn, tomato, soybean, cotton, potato, grapeseed, squash, beets, papaya, rice, flax, maize and chicory have been approved for commercial production in the USA. The most widely grown are “Bt” corn and cotton and glyphosate-resistant soybeans. Bt corn and cotton have had DNA from a naturally occurring insecticidal organism, Bacillus thurin-giensis, incorporated into their genome; it kills some of the most serious insect pests of these crops after they feed on the plant, while beneficial insects are left unaffected.

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