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Themes in World History

Class 11 · History

Theme 6 · Displacing Indigenous Peoples

Real UPSC Prelims questions from 2016–2026, linked to this book. Try each one first, then open the answer. 2026 answers follow UPSC's provisional answer key.

Prelims 2017 · Q78

What is the application of Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Technology?

(a)Production of biolarvicides
(b)Manufacture of biodegradable plastics
(c)Reproductive cloning of animals
(d)Production of organisms free of diseases

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UPSC's answer: (c)

NCERT answers it: Class 11 Themes in World History, Theme 6 (Displacing Indigenous Peoples).

The one fact NCERT doesn't give: Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer is the technique used to clone animals: the nucleus of a body cell is put into an egg cell whose own nucleus has been removed. Dolly the sheep was cloned this way.

Class 11 Themes in World History, Theme 6 (timeline): scientists cloned the sheep Dolly (1997). With the fact, the technology is reproductive cloning of animals. Answer (c).

Hindi version: UPSC's official question paper (2017), question 78 ↗

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