Match each item in Column I with one item in Column II and chose your answer from the codes given below:

Codes

            I           II         III         IV

1.         1           2           3           4

2.         2           1           4           3

3.         2           1           3           4

4.         1           2           4           3

Which of the following timeline is correct for conventional plant breeding?

1. Practiced for thousands of years, since the beginning of human civilization

2. The evidence of plant breeding dates back 9000-11000 years ago

3. The present-day crops are the result of domestication in ancient times

4. All of these

Read the following statement and select the right choice

a. Semi-dwarf varieties, Jaya and Ratna were developed in IRRI, Philippines.

b. Classical plant breeding involves crossing or hybridisation of pure lines.

c. Saccharum barberi was originally grown in South India.

d. Genetic variability is the root of any breeding programme.

(1) Only a is correct

(2) b & d are correct

(3) a, b & c are correct

(4) c & d are correct

Which of the following secretes toxins during storage conditions of crop plants:

1. Aspergillus

2. Penicillium

3. Fusarium

4. Colletotrichum

More than 70% of livestock population is in

1. Denmark

2. India

3. China

4. India and China

Which one of the following combinations would a sugarcane farmer look for in the sugarcane crop?

A collection of all the alleles of all the genes of a crop plant is called

1. germplasm collection

2. protoplasm collection

3. herbarium

4. somactonal collection

People recovering from long illness are often advised to include the alga Spirulina in their

diet because it

1. makes the food easy to digest

2. is rich in proteins

3. has antibiotic properties

4. restores the intestinal microflora.

The fishery industry is devoted to

1. Catching of fishes

2. Processing of fishes

3. Selling of fishes

4. All of these

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