Question

Transgenic plants are the one that is

• A. Generated by introducing foreign DNA into a cell and regenerating a plant from that cell.
• B. Produced after protoplast fusion in artificial medium.
• C. Grown in artificial medium after hybridization in the field
• D. Produced by a somatic embryo in artificial medium.

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

Transgenic plants contain a gene or genes which have been artificially inserted of the plants acquiring them through pollination. Inserted gene sequences (transgene) may come from other unrelated plants, or from a completely different species.