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Chloroplast can be transferred through pollen in all crops.

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Chloroplast can be transferred through pollen in all crops.

(a) True

(b) False

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This intriguing question comes from Organelle Transformation in section Using Other Organisms of Genetic Engineering

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Correct choice is (b) False

The explanation is: Cholorplast can’t be transferred through pollen for all the crops. Thus incorporation of transgenes in chloroplast may offer more biological containment then that incorporation into nucleus may offer.

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