Inbreeding is carried out in animal husbandry because it:
1. | increases vigour | 2. | improves the breed |
3. | increases heterozygosity | 4. | increases homozygosity |
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Sonalika and Kalyan Sona are varieties of:
1. | wheat | 2. | rice |
3. | millet | 4. | tobacco |
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Which one of the following is not a fungal disease?
1. | Rust of wheat | 2. | Smut of Bajra |
3. | Black rot of crucifers | 4. | Red rot of sugarcane |
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In virus-infected plants, the meristematic tissues in both apical and axillary buds are free of the virus because:
1. | the dividing cells are virus resistant. |
2. | meristems have anti-viral compounds. |
3. | the cell division of meristems is faster than the rate of viral multiplication. |
4. | Viruses cannot multiply within meristem cell(s). |
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Fungicides and antibiotics are chemicals that:
1. | enhance yield and disease resistance. |
2. | kill pathogenic fungi and bacteria, respectively. |
3. | kill all pathogenic microbes. |
4. | kill pathogenic bacteria and fungi, respectively. |
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Use of certain chemicals and radiation to change the base sequences of genes of crop plants is termed:
1. recombinant DNA technology
2. transgenic mechanism
3. mutation breeding
4. gene therapy.
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The scientific process by which crop plants are enriched with certain desirable nutrients is called:
1. crop protection
2. breeding
3. bio-fortification
4. bio-remediation.
The term ‘totipotency’ refers to the capacity of a:
1. cell to generate the whole plant
2. bud to generate the whole plant
3. seed to germinate
4. cell to enlarge in size
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Given below are a few statements regarding somatic hybridization. Choose the correct statements:
(i) | protoplasts of different cells of the same plant are fused. |
(ii) | protoplasts from cells of different species can be fused. |
(iii) | treatment of cells with cellulase and pectinase is mandatory. |
(iv) | the hybrid protoplast contains characters of only one parental protoplast. |
1. | (i) and (iii) | 2. | (i) and (ii) |
3. | (i) and (iv) | 4. | (ii) and (iii) |
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An explant is a :
1. dead plant
2. part of the plant
3. part of the plant used in tissue culture
4. part of the plant that expresses a specific gene.