NEET2006ZoologyBiotechnology - Principles and ProcessesActual
Two microbes found to be very useful in genetic engineering are:
Options
- Acrown gall bacterium and Caenorhabditis elegans
- BEscherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens
- CVibrio cholerae and a tailed bacteriophage
- DDiplococcus sp. and Pseudomonas sp.
Correct answer
B. Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Step-by-step solution
Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens are the microbes found to be very useful in genetic engineering. E. coli is a motile, gram negative, rod shaped bacterium which is a normal inhabitant of human colon. It is most extensively used in bacterial genetics and molecular biology. Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a soil bacterium. It has Ti plasmid (Tumour inducing plasmid) and it can be used for the transfer of a desired gene in dicot plants. Related Theory Using Agrobacterium vectors, nematode specific genes are