Multiple choice

Cultivation of Bt cotton has been much in the news. The prefix Bt means

  1. barium-treated cotton seeds

  2. bigger thread variety of cotton with better tensile strength

  3. that it is produced by biotechnology using restriction enzymes and ligases

  4. that it is carrying an endotoxin gene from Bacillus thuringiensis

  5. None of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct choice. It is Bacillus thuringiensis.

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