CS/B.Sc.(H)/Micro-Bio/SEM-6/MTL-604/2013
2013
MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY — SOCIAL, LEGAL
AND ETHICAL ISSUES
Time Allotted : 3 Hours Full Marks : 70
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words
as far as practicable.
GROUP – A
( Multiple Choice Type Questions )
1. Choose the correct alternatives for any ten of the following :
10x1 = 10
i) Genetically engineered herbicide-resistant crops allow
farmers to use a single broad-spectrum herbicide
throughout the growing season.
a) True b) False.
ii) According to Indian Patent Law an invention is
a) contrary to public order
b) a new property of a known substance
c) a new product or process involving an inventing
step and capable of industrial application
d) none of these.
iii) PVP is generally known as
a) patent variety protocol
b) patent variety protection
c) plant variety protection
d) plant variation patents.Tech.
iv) Which of the following is not patentable under the 1988
Patent Act ?
a) Manufacturing process
b) Chemical formulation
c) Mathematical processes
d) New products.
v) Plant Patent Act grants protection right to inventor of
a) asexually reproduced new plant varieties
b) tuber propagated plant
c) all sexually reproduced plants
d) all mutant varieties.