Question

Assertion : Agrobacterium tumefaciens is popular in genetic engineering because this bacterium is associated with the roots of all cereal and pulse crops.
Reason : A gene incorporated in the bacterial chromosomal genome gets automatically transferred to the crop with which the bacterium is associated .
A. If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion.
B. If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assetion
C. If the assertion is true but the reason is false
D. If the both the assertion and reason are false

Answer 1

Correct Answer - d
d) Agrobacterium tumefacience is a rod shaped free living bacteria it cause infection only in broad leave dicot plant through the wound site and transfer the tumour inducing gene to host plant and cause tumour. This spontaneous transfer of gene only by the agrobacterium.