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Question
Use of certain chemicals and radiation to change the base sequences of genes of crop plants is termed ______.
Options
recombinant DNA technology
transgenic mechanism
mutation breeding
gene therapy
Solution
Use of certain chemicals and radiation to change the base sequences of genes of crop plants is termed mutation breeding.
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