Gene Editing Technology: Revolutionising Agriculture
- Which two gene-edited rice varieties have been released in India? – DRR Rice 100 (Kamala) and Pusa DST Rice
- Which scientist studied the CRISPR system extensively during the 1990s? – Spanish scientist Francis Mojica
- In 2020, for the discovery of which technology were Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry? – CRISPR/Cas9
- Currently, how many countries are experimenting with gene editing? – More than 25
- How many gene-edited crops have been approved for commercial use worldwide so far? – Six
- Rice, maize, and wheat together provide approximately what percentage of the world’s total food energy ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Already a Member? Login here
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Govt. Magazines Exam Pointers
- 1 From Signals to Balance: The Journey of Hypothalamus and Pituitary
- 2 Every Drop Counts
- 3 From Toilets to Taps
- 4 Water: The Mirror of Life
- 5 Har Ghar Jal
- 6 Empowering Women and Nurturing Children through WASH
- 7 WASH in Schools and Anganwadis
- 8 A Decade of WASH
- 9 Making Water Sources Sustainable
- 10 Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin and Jal Jeevan Mission: Efforts Towards the Goal of Viksit Bharat by 2047
