Answer: Cloning Dolly the sheep.
- A Making the first GMO crop
- B Cloning Dolly the sheep
- C Producing monoclonal antibodies
- D Making recombinant insulin
Correct answer: B. Cloning Dolly the sheep
Explanation: Dolly the sheep (1996) was cloned by SCNT: nucleus from an adult mammary gland cell inserted into enucleated egg cell, then implanted in surrogate ewe.
Recombinant DNA technology: a gene of interest and plasmid are cut by the same restriction enzyme, ligated into a recombinant plasmid, and introduced into a host cell.
Concept context
Recombinant DNA, GMOs, PCR, CRISPR, and biotechnology applications. Growing importance in NEET.
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