Find the wrong match.

1. Wheat → Pusa Shubra

2. Cauliflower → Pusa Snowball K-1

3. Chilli → Pusa Sadabahar

4. Brassica → Pusa Swarnim

Classical plant breeding involves:

1. Hybridisation of pure lines

2. Domestication

3. Tissue culture

4. Using molecular genetic tools

Resistance to yellow mosaic virus in Abelmoschus esculentus was transferred from a wild species and a new variety was produced, which is called:

1. Pusa sawani

2. Pusa A-4

3. Parbhani kranti

4. Himgiri

High aspartic acid, low nitrogen and sugar content in maize lead to resistance in maize against:

1. Aphids

2. Stem borers

3. Jassids

4. Stem sawfly

Select the incorrect statement with respect to Atlas 66:

1. A wheat variety having high protein content

2. Used as a donor for improving cultivated wheat

3. Is a variety of mexican dwarf wheat

4. Has been used for biofortification

Find the mis-match:

1. Explant - Plant part used for tissue culture

2. Somaclones - Variations produced during micropropagation

3. Callus - Undifferentiated mass of cells

4. Totipotency- Capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell

To induce follicular maturation and super-ovulation, a cow is administered a hormone with activity like:

1. FSH

2. LH

3. Estrogen

4. Progesterone

Which of the following is a freshwater edible fish?

1. Hilsa

2. Mackerel

3. Pomfret

4. Common carp

The reduced biological fitness in a given population as a result of breeding of related individuals is called as:

1.Heterosis

2.Heterozygote advantage

3 Inbreeding depression

4.Saltation

In MOET, the fertilized eggs at 8 – 32 cells stage is transferred to the surrogate rather than the genetic mother because:

1 The surrogate chosen is of a different breed from the genetic mother

2.The surrogate mother is of a younger age

3.The genetic mother is available for another round of super ovulation

4.The genetic mother is of an inferior breed