This set of Basic Biotechnology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Biotechnology Nature – Product Safety”.
1. What represents a critical determinant of time and total costs in bringing a product to market?
a) Governmental regulations
b) Business plan
c) Endorsements
d) Number of employees
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Explanation: Governmental regulations represent critical determinant of time and total costs in bringing a product to market. These regulations have a force of law. These are prescribed by a superior or competent authority.
2. Which among the following act as ‘gatekeepers’ for new biotechnological products?
a) Industries
b) Regulatory agencies
c) Public firms
d) Educational institutes
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Explanation: Regulatory agencies act as ‘gatekeepers’ for new biotechnological products. It ensures development and availability of biotechnological products. It can also erect barriers to industrial development.
3. Possible delays and uncertainty issues can lead to barriers in launch of product.
a) True
b) False
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Explanation: There are various factors that can lead to barriers in launch of product. It includes possible delays and uncertainty issues. Other factors are costs of testing and safety grounds.
4. If a new future product is not likely to have high market return there are chances of curtailed market development.
a) True
b) False
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Explanation: Considerable cost is required to ensure product safety. This may curtail product development. It also depends on future market returns that the product would provide.
5. Which among the following is damaging the future industrial development of some areas of biotechnology?
a) Daily wages
b) Bioreactors used
c) Employees
d) Unrealistic regulatory requirements
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Explanation: Some damages in biotechnological industry development was observed. These were first observed in the U.S. These damages are supposed to be caused by unrealistic regulatory requirements.
6. What must be reassessed systematically to ensure the future industrial development of biotechnology?
a) Finances
b) HR team
c) Regulatory requirements
d) Raw materials used
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Explanation: Regulatory requirements must be reassessed systematically. This ensures safety of the industrial process. Errors if any can be pre-assumed by this way.
7. Fundamental principles of biotechnology are mentioned below. What would be A and B?
a) Physiology and Anatomy
b) Immunology and Microbiology
c) Entomology
d) Chemistry
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Explanation: The fundamental principles of biotechnology are its core branches. The core branches already mentioned are physiology, molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, genetics and chemical engineering. The most approximate answer to this is Immunology and Microbiology.
8. Which among the following has raised safety concerns?
a) Bioremediation
b) Cross breeding
c) R-DNA Technology
d) Biofertilizer
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Explanation: R-DNA technology is also called as Recombinant DNA Technology. Its use has created the greatest areas of possible safety concern. It has got safety concerns because of public perception.
9. Vaccines against bacteria that cause cholera and anthrax in chicken was discovered by__________
a) Edward Jenner
b) Louis Pasteur
c) Gregor Mendel
d) Charles Darwin
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Explanation: Louis Pasteur developed vaccines. This included vaccines against bacteria that cause cholera and anthrax in chicken. Vaccines were mostly discovered in 1881.
10. Which year was the hybrid corn commercialized in?
a) 1933
b) 1928
c) 1942
d) 1950
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Explanation: First hybrid corn was commercialized in the year 1933. Penicillin was mass produced in microbes for the first time in 1942. The first synthetic antibiotic was created in 1950.
11. Who developed the method for producing monoclonal antibodies?
a) Darwin and Mendel
b) Aristotle
c) Kohler and Milstein
d) Edward Jenner
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Explanation: Kohler and Caeser Milstein developed methods for antibodies production. This method was used to produce monoclonal antibodies. These techniques were discovered in 1975.
12. Expand PCR.
a) Polymerase Chain Reaction
b) Polyclonal recombination
c) Polymer of chain reaction
d) Polychloride reaction
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Explanation: It is a technique used in molecular biology. It is used to amplify a single copy of a segment of DNA across others. It was developed by Kary Mullis.
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