Question

Agrobacterium tumefaciens form ______ plasmids and Agrobacterium rhizogenes form _______ plasmids.

(a) root inducing, tumour inducing

(b) tumour inducing, root inducing

(c) tumour inducing, shoot inducing

(d) non-tumour inducing, shoot inducing

I got this question in unit test.

The query is from Vascular Plants topic in chapter Using Other Organisms of Genetic Engineering

Answer 1

Correct option is (b) tumour inducing, root inducing

Explanation: The former bacterium forms tumour inducing plasmids whereas the second bacterium forms root inducing plasmids. These plasmids are large in size.