Q. No.Inbreeding is carried out in animal husbandry because it:
1.
increases vigour
2.
improves the breed
3.
increases heterozygosity
4.
increases homozygosity
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 |
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). |
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. |
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.
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
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) |
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.
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