Animal Cloning in India

1) The first mammal to be cloned in the world (not in India) was :

a) Dolly, the sheep
b) Gaurav, the buffalo
c) Garima, the cow
d) Vertika, the goat

2) Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned, was created with the help of which of the following techniques?

a) Conventional cloning technique
b) Hand-guided Cloning Technique
c) Automated cloning technique
d) None of the above

3) The world's first cloned buffalo calf was produced in India. The calf was named as :

a) Garima
b) Samrupa
c) Gaurav
d) Vertika

4) Garima, the world's second cloned buffalo calf was produced in India. It was created by which of the following institutes?

a) National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal
b) Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes (CIRB),Haryana
c) Wildlife Institute of India, Uttarakhand
d) Both a and b

5) Recently, the CIRB has become the world’s third and India’s second institute to produce cloned buffalo offspring ‘Cirb Gaurav’. This clone has been created through which of the following techniques :

a) Conventional cloning technique
b) Hand-guided Cloning Technique
c) Automated cloning technique
d) None of the above

Answers:

1) a
2) a
3) b
4) a
5) b

Reference : ICAR, The Hindu Newspaper