Very Short answer questions
1. What do you mean by the term
“organogenesis”?
2. What is “cell totipotency”?
3. Which substance is added to culture medium for
callus induction?
4. What do you mean by cell based therapy?
5. What is MoAB?
6. Indicate the major growth phases observed in
animal cell cultures?
7. Which are the most commonly used enzymes for
separating cells in a given tissue for
culture?
8. What is Hybridoma technology?
9. What are the two methods used for isolation of
single plant cells?
10. How does DMSO help in preserving animal
cells?
11. Which is the most commonly used plant culture
media?
12. What are cybrids?
13. Name a few compounds used as
cryoprotectants?
14. Name the protective chemical in which the
embryos are encapsulated in artificial seeds?
15. What are the advantages of using established
cell lines for research by the scientists?
16. What is molecular breeding?
17. Name the red algae from which the gelling agar
is obtained.
18. What is the use of “Fusogen”?
19. Which property of the plant cells is exploited
to culture plant cells?
20. What is the name of the first genes available
for genetic engineering of crop plants for pest
resistance?
21. What does the word “Flavr Savr” refers
to?
22. Name a fusogen used for protoplast
fusion.
23. Define “subculturing”.
24. What are stem cells?
25. What are “pomatoes”?
26. Define “Restriction Enzymes”.
27. What is the full form of RFLP?
28. What are the fields in which Micro array
technique is used?
29.In which vector was the direct sequencing
done?
30. What is meant by SNP map?