Crop plants grown in monoculture are:

1. low in yield

2. free from intraspecific competition

3. characterized by a poor root system

4. highly prone to pests

Level 3: 35%-60%
AIPMT - 2006
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In maize, hybrid vigour is exploited by:

1. bombarding the protoplast with DNA

2. crossing of two inbred parental lines

3. harvesting seeds from the most productive plants

4. inducing mutations

 50%
Level 3: 35%-60%
AIPMT - 2006
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Which one of the following is being utilized as a source of bio-diesel in the Indian countryside?

1. Euphorbia

2. Beetroot

3. Sugarcane

4. Pongamia

Level 4: Below 35%
AIPMT - 2007
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Haploids are more suitable for mutation studies than the diploids. This is because:
1. haploids are reproductively more stable than diploids
2. mutagens penetrate in haploids more effectively than
in diploids
3. haploids are more abundant in nature than diploids
4. all mutations, whether dominant or recessive are
expressed in haploids

Subtopic:  Plant Tissue Culture |
 68%
Level 2: 60%+
AIPMT - 2008
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Bacterial leaf blight of rice is caused by a species of:

1. Xanthomonas

2. Pseudomonas

3. Alternaria

4. Erwinia

 50%
Level 3: 35%-60%
AIPMT - 2008
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Polyethene glycol method is used for:

1. gene transfer without a vector
2. biodiesel production
3. seedless fruit production
4. energy production from sewage
Subtopic:  Plant Tissue Culture |
 60%
Level 2: 60%+
AIPMT - 2009
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While planning for an artificial hybridization programme involving dioecious plants, which of the following steps would not be relevant:

1. Bagging of female flower

2. Dusting of pollen on stigma

3. Emasculation

4. Collection of pollen

 68%
Level 2: 60%+
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In virus-infected plants the meristematic tissue in both apical and axilary buds are free of virus because:

1. the dividing cells are virus resistant

2. meristems have anti viral compounds

3. the cell division of meristems are faster than the rate of viral multiplication

4. virus cannot multiply within meristem cell (s).

Subtopic:  Plant Tissue Culture |
 67%
Level 2: 60%+
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When two unrelated individuals or lines crossed, the performance of F1 hybrid is of superior to both its parents. This phenomenon is called:

1.  transformation

2.  splicing

3.  metamorphosis

4.  heterosis

 71%
Level 2: 60%+
AIPMT - 2011
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Mutations can be induced with:

1.  IAA

2.  ethylene

3.  gamma radiations

4.  infrared radiations

 93%
Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2011
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