Tobacco plants resistant to a nematode have been developed by the introduction of DNA that produced (in the…

Tobacco plants resistant to a nematode have been developed by the introduction of DNA that produced (in the host cells)
  1. both sense and antisense RNA
  2. a particular hormone
  3. an antifeedant
  4. a toxic protein

Solution

Antisense RNA can be produced by inverting a cDNA copy of an mRNA with respect to the promoter in an expression vector. This yields a full length complementary copy of the mRNA sequence. Antisense RNA molecule are thought to interact with mRNA molecule by base pairing to form double stranded RNA.

Asked in: NEET 2012 (Mains)

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