A genetically modified rice called "golden rice" helps in combating the deficiency of -: (A) Vitamin A, (B) Vitamin C, (C) Calcium, (D) Zinc
Answer is A. <p> Golden rice: Variety of rice produced through genetic engineering to boisynthesize beta carotene, a precursor of vitamin A. It is indented to produce a foified food to be grown and consumed in areas with a shoage of dietary vitamin A. Golden rice differs from its parenteral strain by the addition of three beta carotene biosynthesis gene. </p>