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Cloning - class-XI

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Clone Dolly was produced by the attempts of

  1. Charles Darwin

  2. Lederberg

  3. Ian Wilmut

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
  • Sir Ian Wilmut, (born July 7, 1944, Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire, Eng.), British developmental biologist who was the first to use the nuclear transfer of differentiated adult cells to generate a mammalian clone, a Finn Dorset sheep named Dolly.
  • It was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.
  • Hence Clone Dolly was produced by the attempts of Ian Wilmut.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Ian Wilmut'.

A clone is a group of.

  1. Genetically similar organisms produced through asexual reproduction

  2. Genetically similar organisms produced through sexual reproduction

  3. Dissimilar organisms produced as a result of asexual reproduction

  4. Genetically dissimilar organisms produced as a result of sexual reproduction


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Clones are a group of individuals which are produced from a single parent by the process of asexual reproduction. These organisms are genetically similar to the donor organism. Cloning can be performed by using the complete organisms or the cells from the single parent. Cloning is done to preserve the genotype of an organism. Thus the correct answer is option A. 

Cloning is a method to

  1. Replace original genotype

  2. Preserve genotype

  3. Production of HGH gene in Escherichia coli

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B

Individuals of a clone have the

  1. Same behavior.

  2. Same height.

  3. Same genome.

  4. Same number of leaves.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
The individual produced by the asexual reproduction are considered as a clone of their own parents and have same genome because of the following reasons:
1) Fusion of gametes does not takes place in asexual reproduction so there is no chance of recombination and variation.
2) The parent cell divides to form daughter cell by mitosis due to which the offspring is genetically identical to the parent.
3) The offspring produced are clones of their parent and have same number of chromosomes.
So, the correct answer is option C.

Genetically identical individuals are

  1. Cybrids

  2. Clones

  3. Hybrids

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Cybrids are artificial hybrid cell produced by inserting nuclear material from one organism into an enucleated cell. Clones are the population of genetically identical individuals which are produced by asexual or vegetative reproduction. Hybrids are the recombinant individuals, that have genes from both parents and thus, show new combination of traits. Sexual reproduction does not produce clones owing to the three processes that causes recombination of genetic material and produce variations in progeny. These three processes are cross over during meiosis, independent assortment of chromosomes during meiosis and random fusion of gametes. The resultant progeny will be a hybrid. Asexual reproduction does not include meiosis and fusion of gametes; omits the variation creating processes and produce clones. 

Thus, the correct answer is option B.

A population of genetically identical individuals, obtained from asexual reproduction is

  1. Callus

  2. Clone

  3. Deme

  4. Aggregate


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
A) Callus is unorganized actively dividing the mass of cells maintained in culture. It has a meristematic cell which has ample amount of cytoplasm to trigger cell division. It is treated with the growth hormones to allow the cell division and differentiation. 
B) A population of genetically identical individuals, obtained from asexual reproduction is a clone because fusion of gametes does not take place in vegetative propagation so there is no chance of recombination and variation. The parent cell divides to form daughter cell by mitosis due to which the offspring are genetically identical to the parent. The offspring produced are clones of their parent and have the same number of chromosomes.
C) Deme is the basic unit of an animal population can interbreed among themselves. It consists of two or more subspecies which can interbreed amongst itself. It shares its own distinct genetic pool. In isolation, the demes turn into distinct species or subspecies. 
D) Aggregate is form or group into a class or cluster.
So, the correct answer is option B.

The scientist who performed successful animal cloning for the first time is 

  1. Flemming

  2. Jenner

  3. Watson

  4. Ian Wilmut


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
A. Flemming in 1928 discovered antibiotic Penicillin from Penicillium.
B. Jenner discovered world's first vaccine for smallpox.
C. Watson along with his co-worker Crick, described the double helix structure of DNA and this model is known as Watson-Crick model.
D. Ian Wilmut was the first to perform cloning. He cloned a sheep from a somatic cell and named her Dolly.
So, the correct answer is 'Ian Wilmut'.

What is not true about clone?

  1. They are derived from single parent

  2. It involves formation and fusion of two gametes

  3. It involves asexual reproduction

  4. Clone is a same gene copy of the parent


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Clone formation is due to asexual reproduction. As meiosis does not occur here, so no gamete formation, hence no fusion of gametes occurs in clone formation.

So, the correct answer is 'it involves formation and fusion of two gametes'

Which one of the following is used as vector for cloning genes into higher organisms? 

  1. Rhizopus nigricans

  2. Retrovirus

  3. Baculovirus

  4. Salmonella typhimurium


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
  • Salmonella (S.) typhi is an important intracellular pathogen, exclusively for humans  that causes typhoid or enteric fever that make most suitable as a vaccine vector carrying antigens of other pathogens. The hybrids are studied for  induced immune response against response to both the Salmonella bacteria and the antigen of the pathogen in under study.
  • Retroviral vectors are created by replacing retroviral gag, pol, and env genes with therapeutic gene and used in gene therapy which is the process of introduction of DNA into living human beings in order to treat disease. It is used to replace a missing gene product or to correct mutant alleles.
  • Baculoviruses have rod-shaped capsids and large, double-stranded DNA genomes that infect insects. Their polyhedrin gene is replaced with foreign DNA which is expressed at high levels under the control of the endogenous polyhedrin promoter and is mainly used for high-level transient protein expression in insects and insect cells.
  •  Rhizopus nigricans is used as host vector system for mass synthesis of protein encoded by gene cloned in plasmid vectors.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Retrovirus'.

Genetic and acquired diseases can be cured by cloning.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Human cloning has been used to create stem cells which can cure many genetic and acquired diseases. If a person is suffering from kidney disease and requires a new kidney, he can be provided by kidney developed from his own stem cells using cloning technique. This technique is used to create healthy stem cells from a diabetic patient which will produce insulin after successful transplantation into the body. However, cloning technique would be help in curing acquired diseases. 

Thus, the correct answer is 'False.'

Technique used to detect the DNA in a clone is?

  1. Polymerase chain reaction

  2. Gel electrophoresis

  3. Chromatography

  4. Autoradiography


Correct Option: A

The term 'clone' cannot be applied to offspring formed by sexual reproduction because

  1. Offspring do not possess exact copies of parental DNA

  2. DNA of only one parent is copied and passed on to the offspring

  3. Offspring are formed at different times

  4. DNA of parent and offspring are completely different


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

During sexual reproduction, fertilization creates a single-celled zygote which includes genetic material from both gametes. In a process called genetic recombination, genetic material (DNA) joins up so that homologous chromosome sequences are aligned with each other, and this is followed by an exchange of genetic information. Whereas, cloning is the process of producing genetically identical individuals of an organism either naturally or artificially. In nature, many organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction.

So, the correct option is 'Offspring do not possess exact copies of parental DNA'.

A gene carried by recombinant DNA is cloned when

  1. It's host bacterium divides by binary fission

  2. It is transcribed

  3. It is fragmented by restriction enzymes

  4. It is hybridized


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Vector DNA, with foreign gene is called recombinant DNA. rDNA undergo multiplication by binary fission of host cells or gene cloning process.

So, the correct option is ‘it’s host bacterium divides by binary fisison’.

Name of sheep cloned for the first time is .............

  1. Dolly

  2. Polly

  3. Molly

  4. Holly


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Dolly was a female domestic sheep, and the first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin institute, based near Edinburgh. She was born on 5 July, 1996 and died from a progressive lung disease 5 months before her seventh birthday. The cell used as the donor for the cloning of Dolly was taken from a mammary gland, and the production of a healthy clone therefore, proved that a cell taken from a specific part of the body could recreate a whole individual. Hence, option A is correct. 

With the help of DNA ligase donor DNA fragment is joined. It is called

  1. Molecular cloning

  2. Tissue culture

  3. Protoplasmic fusion

  4. Splicing


Correct Option: A

The technique in which the developing embryo (at definite stage) from a pregnant superior breed is removed and transferred to another female with inferior characters, in whose body further development till birth takes place. Such technique is called as

  1. Embryo transfer

  2. Artificial insemination

  3. Protoplast fusion

  4. Cloning


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

  • Embryo transfer is the technique in which the developing embryo from a pregnant superior breed is removed and transferred to another female with inferior characters for establishing the pregnancy and in whose body further development takes place till birth. It is used in humans as well as animals.

So, the correct answer is 'Embryo transfer'.

Offsprings formed by asexual reproduction exhibit remarkable similarity. This is known as

  1. Clone

  2. Gamete

  3. Androecium

  4. Gynoecium


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Cloning is the production of identical genetic copies. All forms of asexual reproduction are variations of the cell division process of mitosis. Asexual reproduction is sometimes called as cloning and the individual copy produced by cloning method is called as a clone.

The nucleus of a donor embryonal cell/somatic cell is transferred to an enucleated egg cell. Then after the formation of an organism, what shall be true?

  1. Organism will have extranuclear genes of the donor cell

  2. Organism will have extra nuclear genes of recipient cell

  3. Organism will have extra nuclear genes of both donor and recipient cell

  4. Organism will have nuclear genes of recipient cell


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

It is given that the recipient cell has  been enucleated. It means its nucleus or genetic material has been removed. Hence, the organism that will develop from it would have the nuclear genes of donor embryonal/ somatic cell. Hence, the organism will have extra nuclear genes of recipient cell. 

Thus, the correct answer is 'Organism will have extra nuclear genes of recipient cell.'

'Clones' are individuals that have exactly the same ________.

  1. Lifespan

  2. Physiology

  3. Growth rate

  4. Genetic makeup


Correct Option: D

Cloning of animals has been possible due to advances in

  1. nuclear technology

  2. computer technology

  3. biotechnology

  4. autoradiography


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Cloning in biotechnology refers to the process of creating clones i.e. exact copies of an organism. Biotechnology is technology that utilizes biological systems, living organisms or parts of this to develop or create different products. Due to the advancement of biotechnological processes like DNA cloning, amplification, isolation, recombination etc. It has been possible to create clones of animals. 

So, the correct option is 'biotechnology.'

Population of cells derived from a single parent cell is called

  1. Symmetrical cell

  2. Diploid

  3. Haploid

  4. Clone


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Clone are cells or organism that is genetically identical to the original cell or organism from which it is derived. Many unicellular organisms, such as bacteria and yeasts, are clones of parent cells generated by either binary fission or budding. The body cells of plants and animals are clones ultimately derived from the mitosis (cell reproduction) of a single fertilized egg. More narrowly, a clone can be defined as an individual organism that was grown from a single body cell of its parent and that is genetically identical to it.
So the correct option is 'clone'.

A large number of bacteria produced from a single bacterium is called as 

  1. Deme

  2. Population

  3. Clones

  4. Offspring


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Cell clones can form by cell division from a single transformed cell and be propagated to produce a large number of cells with an identical foreign DNA molecules that we wish to clone into the cells, a process known as transformation. Amplification process produces a huge number of identical bacterial cell clones, each with the same foreign DNA sequence.
Therefore, the correct answer is option C.

'Cloning' is meant 

  1. For production of HGH gene is E. coli

  2. To preserve the genotype of organism

  3. To replace the original gene

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
The clone is a population of cells or individuals which are genetically similar to the donor cell or individual. It can be performed by using the complete organisms or the cells from the single parent through the method of asexual reproduction. Its main purpose is to preserve the genotype of an organism. The cloning is of two types namely: 
i. Gene cloning at the molecular level and
ii. Cloning of the organisms.
Thus, the correct answer is option B.

Two offsprings having the same genetic material and the same body features, produced by one parent through asexual reproduction, are called as

  1. Identical twins

  2. Fraternal twins

  3. Callus

  4. Clones


Correct Option: D

Which one of the following is used as vector for cloning genes into higher organisms?

  1. Retrovirus

  2. Baculovirus

  3. $Salmonella$ $typhimurium$

  4. $Rhizopus$ $nigricans$


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Retroviruses, though have single-stranded RNA genomes but provide perhaps the most promising vector system of all. During the process of reverse transcription, sequences from the termini of viral RNA are duplicated to generate long terminal repeats(LTRs). These long terminal repeats contain both the promoter and the polyadenylation signal for the transcription of viral mRNAs. The specificity of proviral DNA integration is also determined by the long terminal repeats. Although retroviruses can integrate at many sites within the cellular genome, integrative recombination always occurs at particular sites at the ends of the LTRs. The sequences appropriately inserted between the two LTRs will be integrated intact which contrasts sharply with the integration of papovavirus or adenovirus DNA, during which extensive rearrangements of the integrated viral sequences are commonplace. A further great advantage of retroviruses is that they are natural transducing viruses.

Which is not a key step in the process of DNA molecular cloning?

  1. Heat shock at $42^oC$ for 90 seconds.

  2. Make DNA competent to take up plasmid with use of calcium chloride

  3. Seal plasmid carrying targeted genes into host cells genome using ligase.

  4. Introduce genes for cloning into a plasmid vector using restriction enzymes.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
A- The steps involved in the process of DNA molecular cloning are – selected DNA fragment is inserted into a plasmid utilizing restriction enzymes and DNA ligase enzymes. The produced molecule of recombinant DNA is then introduced into a selected and grown up bacteria which reproduce by producing an exact copy of the plasmid and transferring it to their progeny.
So, the correct answer is 'Heat shock at 42oC42oC for 90 seconds'

Plants having similar genotypes produced by plant breeding are called as 

  1. Clone

  2. Haploid

  3. Autopolypoid

  4. Genome


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Cloning is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually. The term clone is used in horticulture to refer to descendants of a single plant which were produced by vegetative reproduction. Many horticultural plant cultivars are clones, derived from a single individual, multiplied by some process other than sexual reproduction.

Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

Dolly is a product of

  1. Genetic engineering

  2. Animal cloning

  3. Cell fusion

  4. Gene therapy


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Dolly was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer ie, cloning me.method called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer or SCNT. A clone has the same DNA sequence as its parent and so they are genetically identical. In SCNT, the nucleus of an egg cell is removed and replaced with the nucleus of a donor adult cell. Since 99.9% of the cell’s DNA is contained in the nucleus, the resulting animal will share almost exactly the same DNA as the original donor cell. So, the correct answer is option B.

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