The agriculture sector of India employs about:

1. 50 percent of the population

2. 70 percent of the population

3. 30 percent of the population

4. 60 percent of the population.

33 percent of India’s Gross Domestic Product comes from:

A collection of all the alleles of all the genes of a crop plant is called:

Wild varieties of plants must be conserved to
1. Maintain ecosystem
2. Feeding wild animals
3. Future evolution
4. Incorporate useful traits in future crop varieties

Differentiation of shoot in tissue culture is controlled by
1. High auxin :cytokinin ratio
2. High cytokinin : auxin ratio
3. High gibberellin : auxin ratio
4. High gibberellin :cytokinin ratio

The technique of obtaining large number of plantlets through tissue culture is
1. Micropropagation
2. Macropropagation
3. Organ culture
4. Plantlet culture

Which one is a neem product used as insect repellent?
1. Rotenone
2. Azadirachtin
3. Parathion
4. Endrin

In Maize, hybrid vigour is produced by
1. Crossing two inbreed lines
2. Inducing mutations
3. Bombarding the protoplast with DNA
4. Harvesting seeds from most productive plants

Breeding of crops with high level of minerals, vitamins and proteins is called
1. Biofortification
2. Biomagnification
3. Micropropagation
4. Somatic hybridization

Which one of the following is a case of wrong matching
1. Somatic hybridization - Fusion of two diverse cells
2. Vector DNA -Site for t-RNA synthesis
3. Micropropagation- In vitro production of plants in large numbers
4. Callus - Unorganised mass of cell produced in tissue culture