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Cultivation of Bt cotton has been much in the news. The prefix Bt means:

A

'Barium treated'' cotton seeds

B

'Bigger thread'' variety of cotton with better tensile strength

C

Produced by ''biotechnology'' using restriction enzymes and ligases

D

Carrying an endotoxin gene from Bacillus thuringiensis

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