Match List – I with List – II.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

A. One of the alternate sources of proteins for animal and human nutrition is Single Cell Protein (SCP). Microbes are being grown on an industrial scale as source of good protein. Microbes like Spirulina can be grown easily on materials like waste water from potato processing plants (containing starch), straw, molasses, animal manure and even sewage, to produce large quantities and can serve as food rich in protein, minerals, fats, carbohydrate and vitamins. Incidentally such utilisation also reduces environmental pollution.

B. Biofortification – breeding crops with higher levels of vitamins and minerals, or higher protein and healthier fats – is the most practical means to improve public health.

C. Plant tissue culture is based on the special property of plant cells to generate a whole plant, called totipotency. The plant part used in tissue culture is called explant. The nutrient medium provides a carbon sources such as sucrose, inorganic salts, vitamins, amino acids and growth regulators like auxins cytokinins etc.

D. Propagation of thousands of plants in very short duration through tissue culture is called micropropagation. Each of these plants will be genetically identical to the original plant i.e., they are somaclones.