Match the correct diseases with their precursors

Disease	Protein or precursor involved in disease
1. Cystic fibrosis	a. Prion protein
2. Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease	b. CFTR
3. Familial hypercholesterolaemia	c. LDL receptor
4. fatal familial insomnia	d. β-amyloid protein
5. Alzheimer's disease	e. β-hexosaminidase

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#Question id: 19301

#Unit 13. Advances in Biotechnology

Transgenic plants are also aimed at producing novel biochemicals like 

1. Interferon

2. Insulin

3. Immunoglobulins

4. Nutraceuticals

Which among the following is correct combination?

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#Question id: 19302

#Unit 13. Advances in Biotechnology

The assembly of various DNA sequences designed for easy identification of the construct and its efficient expression is termed as

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#Question id: 19303

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A typical plant gene has the following regions 

(i) Promoter

(ii) enhancer/silencer

(iii) Cap site 

(iv) Translated region  

(v) Initiation codon

(vi) Exons 

(vii) intron

(viii) Stop codon

(ix) Poly (A) tail

Which of the following option is incorrect?

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#Question id: 19304

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What happens to signal peptides after the protein has been translocated to the desired location, to generate the mature functional proteins

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If 35S promoter is fused with Adh-I introns sequences ensures

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#Question id: 19306

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35S promoter sequence is derived from which plant virus