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Select the false statement from the following.
BiologyBiotechnology - Principles and ProcessesNEET
Options:
  • A Genetic engineering includes techniques to alter chemistry of genetic material (DNA and RNA).
  • B Sexual reproduction is more advantageous than asexual reproduction.
  • C Genetic engineering allows us to introduce desirable set of genes without the undesirable gene into the target organism.
  • D Plasmid is autonomously replicating linear extra chromosomal DNA.
Solution:
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The correct answer is: Plasmid is autonomously replicating linear extra chromosomal DNA.
The plasmid is circular, extra-chromosomal self-replicating DNA present in the bacterial cell. It can replicate independent of the main genome and can form high copy number in the cell.

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