Biotechnology in Healthcare and Medicine

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Biotechnology in Healthcare and Medicine: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Genetically Engineered Insulin, Gene Therapy, Molecular Diagnosis of Diseases, ELISA, Biotechnology in Medicine, and Adenosine deaminase Deficiency.

Important Questions on Biotechnology in Healthcare and Medicine

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The use of DNA as a pharmaceutical agent to treat disease is called:

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Deficiency of the enzyme ADA causes:

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Which of the following protein has been produced by methods of genetic engineering?

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Which of the following types of ELISA contain the following steps?

Antigen binding, Blocking, Primary antibody, Secondary antibody, Enzyme-linked antibody, Substrate, Colorimetric reading (Represented in diagram).

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Consider the following statements about therapeutic drugs. Which of the statements given below are correct?
(i) The recombinant DNA technology is used for production of therapeutic drugs which are safe and effective
(ii) It avoids unwanted immunological responses, commonly observed with similar product isolated from non-human sources
(iii) About thirty recombinant therapeutics hare been approved for human use in the world including India

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In the PCR technique during the detection of the mutated gene, a single-stranded DNA or RNA, tagged with a radioactive molecule is allowed to hybridise to its complementary DNA in a clone of cells followed by detection using autoradiography. In this statement which of the following term can be used as “radioactive molecule”?

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Match the following and choose the correct option.

List - I List - II
A) Ovaprim
B) Omega-3-fatty acid
C) Cadherins
D) C- Peptide
I) Membrane proteins
II) Proinsulin
III) Reduce cholesterol
IV) Synthetic analogue gonadotropin releasing agent
V) Exotoxin

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The first gene therapy was given to

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Which one of the following application is not related to DNA finger printing?

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α-1 antitrypsin is used to treat

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In human insulin, ___________ is not present in the mature insulin.

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Choose the correct statements

(A) Early detection of pathogen presence can be done by PCR 

(B) Biochemical products produced by bacteria are inferior to products produced in transgenic plants

(C) Validity of the GM Research will be controlled by Genetic Engineering Approval committee

(D) Use of bio resources by multinational companies with proper authorization is not possible The correct answer is

The correct answer is

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Which of the following peptide chain is not present in mature insulin?

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Suspected cancer patient's gene mutation can be detected by

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Genetically-engineered human insulin is obtained by inserting the gene in

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For the treatment of cancer, which of the following products obtained by recombinant DNA technology is used?

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In which bacteria, the gene of insulin was cloned?