The most practical means to improve public health and enriching foods with vitamins and minerals would include.

1. Micropropagation

2. Use of single cell proteins

3. Biofortification

4. Developing pest resistant crops

Subtopic:  Plant Breeding for Quality (OLD NCERT) |
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By cross hybridisation of Saccharum barberi and Saccharum officinarum sugarcane varieties obtained have the desired qualities except one of the following

1. High yield.

2. High levels of sugar.

3. Resistance to jassids.

4. Thick stems.

Subtopic:  Impact: Green Revolution (OLD NCERT) |
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Which of the following varieties is not associated with the increase in rice production during green revolution.

1. IR8

2. Jaya

3. Kalyan Sona

4. Ratna

Subtopic:  Impact: Green Revolution (OLD NCERT) |
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Find the wrong match.

1. Wheat → Pusa Shubra

2. Cauliflower → Pusa Snowball K-1

3. Chilli → Pusa Sadabahar

4. Brassica → Pusa Swarnim

Subtopic:  Breeding for Disease Resistance (OLD NCERT) |
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Classical plant breeding involves:

1. Hybridisation of pure lines

2. Domestication

3. Tissue culture

4. Using molecular genetic tools

Subtopic:  Plant Breeding & Its Steps (OLD NCERT) |
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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

Subtopic:  Breeding for Disease Resistance (OLD NCERT) |
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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

Subtopic:  Insect & Pest Resistance (OLD NCERT) |
 78%
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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

Subtopic:  Plant Breeding for Quality (OLD NCERT) |
 72%
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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

Subtopic:  Plant Tissue Culture |
 80%
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To induce follicular maturation and super-ovulation, a cow is administered a hormone with activity like:

1. FSH

2. LH

3. Estrogen

4. Progesterone

Subtopic:  Animal Husbandry (OLD NCERT) |
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