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(a) Define cloning what are its benefits?
(b) Describe transgenics write briefly about a transgeneic crop that has been introduced in india

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(A) The production of one individual organism or a group of organism of identical genotype or cells that have been derived form a single parental organism or cell by some kind aof asexual reproduction or pathenogensis there are two types of cloning gene cloning at mlecular level and cell or organism
(B) An oganism which becomes trenasofmed folowing the introduction of new DNA sequece into fits geneome is called transgenic organism most popularly the transgenic cropes are called gentically modified crops or GM crops
A transgenci crop that has been recently ntroduced in india is Bt cotton .The bacterium produces a crystal (cry) protein whihc is toxic to larvae of certain insects the gene responsible for production of cry protein cry gne has beeen isolated and introduced in to the cotton genome so that the transgenic bt cotton has become insect resistant the bt cotton is now grown in diffent parts of india nd has resulted approximately 3% to 27 % in cotton yield

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