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

1. Thick stem, long internodes, high sugar content and disease resistance
2. Thick stem, high sugar content and profuse flowering
3. Thick stem, short internodes, high sugar content, disease resistance
4. Thick stem, low sugar content and disease resistance

 80%
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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

 81%
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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

 87%
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The biggest constraint of plant breeding is

1. availability of desirable gene in the crop and its wild relatives
2. infrastructure
3. trained manpower
4. transfer of genes from unrelated sources

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Lysine and tryptophan are

1. proteins

2. non-essential amino acids

3. essential amino acids

4. aromatic amino 

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Which one of the following is a marine fish?

1. Rohu

2. Hilsa

3. Catla

4. Common carp

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Which one of the following products of agriculture is used in cosmetics and polishes?

1. Honey

2. Oil

3. Wax

4. Royal Jelly

 76%
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More than 70% of livestock population is in

1. Denmark

2. India

3. China

4. India and China

 93%
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The agriculture sector of India employs about

1. 50% of the population

2. 70% of the population

3. 30% of the population 

4. 60% of the population

 66%
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33% of India’s Gross Domestic Product comes from

1. Industry

2. Agriculture

3. Export

4. Small-scale cottage industries

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