Practice Test

Q1) Embryo rescue for successful hybridisation in interspecific crosses can be achieved by: Show Answer

Q2) Somaclonal variations are those which appear during: Show Answer

Q3) One of the recent methods of crop improvement is the protoplast technology. The protoplast of two different varieties can be made to fuse with the help of: Show Answer

Q4) Why is a shoot tip culture preferred for international exchange of germplasm? Show Answer

Q5) Cryopreservation is: Show Answer

Q6) Why haploids are preferred of their use in breeding programmes? Show Answer

Q7) Genetic material, especially that contained within the reproductive cell is called: Show Answer

Q8) The most convenient way to maintain plant germplasm is: Show Answer

Q9) Triticale is man-made cereal obtained through hybridisation between: Show Answer

Q10) Plants with similar genotypes are: Show Answer

Q11) Aim of plant breeding is to: Show Answer

Q12) Pure line breeds refer to: Show Answer

Q13) Somatic hybrids are useful in introducing genes for: Show Answer

Q14) Plasmids of which organism are frequently used in the production of transgenic plants? Show Answer

Q15) Genetic transformation is possible through: Show Answer

Q16) Hybridisation through protoplast fusion is called: Show Answer

Q17) Four inbred lines of wheat are crossed. The cross is called: Show Answer

Q18) Scientists are trying to get hybridisation between tomato and potato. The most accurate name would be: Show Answer

Q19) Which one of the following crops was subjected the most to continuous selection and domestication by man? Show Answer

Q20) Desired improved varieties of economically useful crops are raised by: Show Answer

Q21) How are seeds in a gene bank stored? Show Answer

Q22) What are transgenic plants? Show Answer

Q23) Improved varieties of wheat suitable for Indian climate have been developed by: Show Answer

Q24) Which of the following is not used for crop improvement? Show Answer

Q25) Heterosis is: Show Answer

Q26) Inbreeding is possible between two members of: Show Answer

Q27) Polyploidy is often the result of: Show Answer

Q28) Among the following which one is the best chemical for inducing the polyploidy? Show Answer

Q29) At cryopreservation of germplasm the biological activity: Show Answer

Q30) What is triticale? Show Answer

Q31) Improved rice variety IR-8 has been introduced in India from: Show Answer

Q32) What is gene bank? Show Answer

Q33) Who among the following is known as father of Green revolution? Show Answer

Q34) PUSA is a variety of: Show Answer

Q35) Sharbati Sonora is an example of: Show Answer

Q36) Most cultivated plants of world today are examples of: Show Answer

Q37) Polyploidy results in: Show Answer

Q38) Taichung is a dwarf variety of rice. Its original home is: Show Answer

Q39) Method of selection in vegetatively propagated plants is: Show Answer

Q40) Hybrid vigour is due to: Show Answer

Q41) Potato and apples are multiplied by: Show Answer

Q42) Aneuploidy is commonly observed in different varieties of: Show Answer

Q43) Banana is generally seedless because it is: Show Answer

Q44) Triploid are said to more useful than other polyploids because these are: Show Answer

Q45) Green revolution refers to: Show Answer

Q46) Dwarf wheat varieties were evolved by: Show Answer

Q47) Technique used in agriculture biotechnology is: Show Answer

Q48) Important use of agriculture biotechnology is to: Show Answer

Q49) Dwarf wheat varieties brought into India from Mexico were: Show Answer

Q50) Credit for bringing green revolution to India goes to: Show Answer

Q51) Pomato involves the plants: Show Answer

Q52) In crop improvement programme haploids are of considerable importance because they: Show Answer

Q53) A major application of embryo culture is in: Show Answer

Q54) The hexaploid wheat is obtained by: Show Answer

Q55) If an angiospermic male plant is diploid and female plant tetraploid, the ploidy level of endosperm will be: Show Answer

Q56) Scientist associated with cloning of sheep: Show Answer

Q57) India's wheat yield revolution in the 1960s was possible primarily due to: Show Answer

Q58) Three crops that contribute maximum to grow grain production are: Show Answer

Q59) Golden rice is a transgenic crop of the future with the following improved trait: Show Answer

Q60) Which of the following is generally used for induced mutagenesis in crop plants? Show Answer

Q61) Genetic diversity in agricultural crops is threatened by: Show Answer

Q62) One of the ex situ conservation methods for endangered species is: Show Answer

Q63) All forms of life should be conserved because: Show Answer

Q64) Triticale, the first man-made cereal crop, has been obtained by crossing wheat with: Show Answer

Q65) Crop plants grown in monoculture are: Show Answer

Q66) Golden rice is a promising transgenic crop. When released for cultivation, it will help in: Show Answer

Q67) Which of the following is/are important in the development of phenotype? Show Answer

Q68) In plant breeding which of the following is involved in creation of genetic variation? Show Answer

Q69) Germplasm is sum total of all alleles of the genes present in crop and its related species. The germplasm of any crop species would consist of which type of materials? Show Answer

Q70) Loss of vigour associated with inbreeding is termed: Show Answer

Q71) Late blight of potato is caused by: Show Answer

Q72) A contagious disease called anthrax affects cattle, buffaloes, horse, sheep and goats is caused by: Show Answer

Q73) Which of the following is disease of cattle? Show Answer

Q74) Which of the following is most commonly used for creation of genetic variation? Show Answer

Q75) Which of the following is the consequence of plant disease? Show Answer

Q76) Production of which of the following involves the use of colchicine: Show Answer

Q77) Viruses enter into their host through which of the following? Show Answer

Q78) Which of the following is not correct about plant? Show Answer

Q79) Which of the following animal diseases is caused by a virus? Show Answer

Q80) Mule is produced by which of the following? Show Answer

Q81) Which of the following plant diseases cannot be controlled by chemical treatment? Show Answer

Q82) Hybrids are produced by crossing inbreds in which of the following? Show Answer

Q83) In the following table identify the correct the correct matching of the crop, its disease and the corresponding pathogen.
Crop : Disease : Pathogen. Show Answer

Q84) Maximum genetic variation can be created through Show Answer

Q85) The process of cultivating and bringing about certain changes in the wild forms so that they yield better, under artificial growing conditions is called Show Answer

Q86) Culture of isolated microspores results in the formation of Show Answer

Q87) Disease free plants are obtained from Show Answer

Q88) Haploids are considered better genetic stock because they Show Answer

Q89) Germplasm also preserve rare genotype for Show Answer

Q90) Autopolyploidy can be induced artificially by Show Answer

Q91) The application of induced mutations for crop improvement is called Show Answer

Q92) What was the source of first induced mutations? Show Answer

Q93) Protection of genetic resources is called Show Answer

Q94) Correct chronological order of the events occurring during callus culture is Show Answer

Q95) Choose the correct answer Show Answer

Q96) Hybrid vigour is eroded through Show Answer

Q97) Wild varieties of plants must be conserved to Show Answer

Q98) The loss of genes from a gene pool is called Show Answer

Q99) The enzyme used for isolation of single cells from explant is Show Answer

Q100) A hybrid where cytoplasm of two parent cells are fused by retaining only one parental nucleus is called Show Answer

Q101) Haploids are more suitable for mutation studies than diploids. This is because Show Answer

Q102) Somatic hybridization is accomplished by Show Answer

Q103) Constraints of conventional breeding are Show Answer

Q104) New methods of obtaining plant breeds includes Show Answer

Q105) Mutational breeding has produced the variety of mung bean which is resistance to Show Answer