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Suggest a method to remove oil(hydrocarbon) from seeds based on rDNA technology and chemistry of oil.
 
Recombinant DNA technology is used to remove oil from seeds.
Oil contains - one mole of.glycerol+3 moles of fatty acids.
2.By preventing the synthesis of either glycerol or lipase (catalyse the synthesis
of oil)
3. Knock out the gene code for enzyme lipase or enzyme required for synthesis of glycerol.

This DNA is treated with DNA ligases to make seed with RNA at the broken ends.

-The cells with modified DNA is grown aseptically in a nutrient medium and will

differentiate into a new plant whose seeds will not have oil in them.


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