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(1)
"Jaya" and "Ratna" developed for green revolution in India are the varieties of
[1]
Bajra
[2]
Maize
[3]
Rice
[4]
Wheat
(2)
A germplasm collection is a
[1]
Collection of specimens of all the species of an area in a herbarium or botanical garden
[2]
Collection of modern varieties of a crop
[3]
Collection of seeds or pollen of rare and threatened species of a group or area
[4]
Collection of seeds or pollen of rare and threatened species of a group or area
Answer: Collection of plants or seeds having diverse alleles of all genes in a crop
(3)
Somaclones are obtained by
[1]
Genetic engineering
[2]
Irradiation
[3]
Plant breeding
[4]
culture Tissue
(4)
Hybrid vigour is mostly due to
[1]
Homozygosity of pure characters
[2]
Superiority of all the genes
[3]
Heterozygosity
[4]
Mixing up of cytoplasm of the male with that of female
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The capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell/explants is called
[1]
Pluripotency
[2]
Cell cloning
[3]
Tissue culture
[4]
Totipotency
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The method of producing thousands of plants through tissue culture is called
[1]
Micropropagation
[2]
Somatic hybridization
[3]
Biofortification
[4]
Biomagnification
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Desired improved varieties of economically useful crops are raised by
[1]
Hybridization
[2]
Mutation
[3]
Natural selection
[4]
Biofertilizer
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Aims of plant breeding are to produce
[1]
early maturing varieties
[2]
high-yielding varieties
[3]
disease-free varieties
[4]
all the above
(9)
Main objective of production/use of herbicide resistant Genetically modified crops is to:
[1]
Reduce herbicide accumulation in food articles for health safety
[2]
Eliminate weeds from the field without the use of manual labor
[3]
Eliminate weeds from the field without the use of herbicides
[4]
Encourage eco-friendly herbicides
Answer: Reduce herbicide accumulation in food articles for health safety
(10)
Plants having similar genotypes produced by plant breeding are called
[1]
Autopolyploid
[2]
Haploid
[3]
Clone
[4]
Genome
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Haploid plantlets can be produced by
[1]
Embryo culture
[2]
Cotyledon culture
[3]
Pollen culture
[4]
Meristem culture
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Necrosis, or death of tissue particularly leaf tissue, is due to the deficiency of
[1]
N, K, S
[2]
N, K, Mg and Fe
[3]
Mn, Zn and Mo
[4]
Ca, Mg, Cu and K
(13)
'Himgiri' developed by hybridisation and selection for disease resistance against rust pathogens is a variety of
[1]
Wheat
[2]
Chilli
[3]
Maize
[4]
Sugarcane
(14)
Which one of the following is linked to the discovery of Bordeaux mixture as a popular fungicide?
[1]
Black rust of wheat
[2]
Bacterial leaf blight of rice
[3]
Downy mildew of grapes
[4]
Loose smut of wheat
Answer: Downy mildew of grapes
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The process to induce mutations artificially through use of chemicals or radiations is called
[1]
Ethylene
[2]
Infra Red Radiations
[3]
Gamma Radiations
[4]
None of these
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