OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
BIOTECHNOLOGY
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Question
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a rice strain that has been genetically modified to make Vitamin-A
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Brown Rice
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Yellow Rice
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Golden Rice
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Vitamin Rice
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The new genetically modified rice (Oryza sativa ) type is golden rice. It is produced for the synthesis of vitamin A, to biosynthesize beta-carotene. It has a high content in vitamin A.
Detailed explanation-2: -Golden rice was created by modifying the rice genome to include a gene from the daffodil Narcissus pseudonarcissus that produces an enzyme known as phyotene synthase and a gene from the bacterium Erwinia uredovora that produces an enzyme called phyotene desaturase.
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