Which of the following tools/techniques would work best for introducing an insecticide producing gene (e.g. Bt toxin) into the soybean plant genome? Note, soybean is a dicot. O The Bt toxin gene is isolated and inserted into a Ti plasmid from Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The engineered Ti plasmid is taken up by a bacterium that infects the plant. O The bacterial gene for Bt toxin is isolated, and the DNA is put into tiny bullets (like BB's) that are "shot" into the plant using a gene gun. O A virus is engineered to contain the Bt toxin gene. This virus is then used to infect the plant and pass on the gene. O The Bt toxin gene is added to water that is sprayed on the cotton plants. The gene is taken up through the roots of the plant.
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