The picture shows the Leghorn Chicken breed:
Statement I: It is a breed of chicken originating in Tuscany, in central Italy.
Statement II: Chicken descended from the wild red jungle fowl of India.
1. Only Statement I is correct.
2. Only Statement II is correct.
3. Statement I and Statement II are correct.
4. Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.

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Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): In Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer Technology [MOET], the fertilised eggs at 8-32 cell stages, are transferred to surrogate mothers and not to the genetic mothers.
Reason (R): Genetic mothers normally do not have a uterus and cannot support gestation.
 In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
1.  Both (A) and (R) are false.
2.  (A) is true but (R) is false.
3. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) does not explain (A).
4. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A).
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Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Keeping beehives in crop fields during the flowering period is beneficial both from the point of view of crop yield and honey yield.
Reason (R): Bee-keeping can be practiced in any area where there are sufficient bee pastures of some wild shrubs, fruit orchards and cultivated crops.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A).
2. (A) is true but (R) is false. 
3. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
4. Both (A) and (R) are false.
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All the following plants require honey bees as their main pollinators except:
1. Banana 2. Brassica
3. Apple 4. Pear
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Consider the given definitions:
A: Commercial breeding of fish, usually for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds.
B: Controlled cultivation of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus).
1. While A is Pisciculture, B is Aquaculture
2. While B is Pisciculture, A is Aquaculture
3. While A is Blue revolution, B is White revolution
4. While B is Blue revolution, A is White revolution
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Today all our major food crops are derived from:
1. Domesticated varieties
2. Mutation breeding
3. Micro-propagation
4. recombinant DNA technology
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Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Collection and preservation of all the wild varieties of crops is important for an effective germplasm collection.
Reason (R): In many crops, pre-existing genetic variability is available from wild relatives of the crop.
 In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
1. Both (A) and (R) are false.
2. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) does not explain (A).
3. Assertion is true but (R) is false.
4. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
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Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Cross hybridising the two parents to produce hybrids that genetically combine the desired characters present in the parents is a tedious and time-consuming process.
Reason (R): The desired characters have very often to be combined from two different plants [parents].
 In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
1. Both (A) and Reason are true but (R) does not explain (A).
2. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
3. Both (A) and (R) are false.
4. (A) is true but (R) is false.
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Identify the correct statement:
I: New cultivars produced by plant breeding are first evaluated in research fields and their performance is recorded under ideal fertiliser application, irrigation, and other crop management practices.
II: After evaluation in research fields, the new cultivars are tested in farmers’ fields for at least three growing seasons at several locations in the country.
 
1. Only I 2. Only II
3. Both I and II 4. Neither I nor II
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Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): India had to strive to increase yields per unit area from existing farmlands for the success of Green
revolution in the 1960s.
Reason (R): Only limited land was available for cultivation.
 In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
1. Both (A) and Reason are false.
2. Both (A) and Reason are true but (R) does not explain (A).
3. (A) is true but (R) is false.  
4. Both (A) and Reason are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
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