EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN FOOD SCIENCE
GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Lentil
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Sunflower
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Cauliflower
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Hibiscus
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sunflower is an oil-yielding plant. Sunflower oil is the non-volatile oil extracted from sunflower seeds. Linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated fat, and oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat, make up the majority of sunflower oil.
Detailed explanation-2: -So the correct answer is Sunflower.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cauliflower is a vegetable and Hibiscus is a flower, whereas Sunflower is used to make oil.
Detailed explanation-4: -About 70% of the world production of plant oil comes from four plant species: soybeans, oil palm, rape, and sunflower.
Detailed explanation-5: -Seed oil of eggplant varied from 17.2 to 28.0% among 305 genebank accessions, with a mean of 23.7%. Seed oil content in other Solanum species varied from 11.8% in S. capsicoides to 44.9% in S. aviculare.