Practice Test

Q1) Maximum contribution to the total milk production of our country comes from: Show Answer

Q2) Murrah is a breed of: Show Answer

Q3) Lac is a: Show Answer

Q4) Aquaculture includes: Show Answer

Q5) Which of the following species is specially domesticated and reared for high economic importance? Show Answer

Q6) Cryopreservation is useful for: Show Answer

Q7) Infertility of local breeds of cattle can be overcome by use of: Show Answer

Q8) Stilbesterol is used for: Show Answer

Q9) Surrogate mother is: Show Answer

Q10) Artificial insemination is better than natural insemination in cattle because: Show Answer

Q11) A milch breed of cow is: Show Answer

Q12) A draught breed of cattle is: Show Answer

Q13) An exotic breed of cow is: Show Answer

Q14) Hybrid breed of cattle is: Show Answer

Q15) Gestation period for buffalo is: Show Answer

Q16) Cows and buffaloes remain in heat for: Show Answer

Q17) Bhutia is a breed of: Show Answer

Q18) Ship of desert is: Show Answer

Q19) The animal most useful on difficult terrains is: Show Answer

Q20) Bactrian camel is characteristic Show Answer

Q21) A beast of burden which needs little care is: Show Answer

Q22) The largest land animal is: Show Answer

Q23) Elephants are sought after for: Show Answer

Q24) Earliest animal to be domesticated was: Show Answer

Q25) The most used domesticated animal by Eskimos is: Show Answer

Q26) Huskies are: Show Answer

Q27) Best source for dietary protein for a vegetarian is: Show Answer

Q28) Zebu cattle is: Show Answer

Q29) Water Buffalo is: Show Answer

Q30) Hatching net is called: Show Answer

Q31) Spawning in fishes can be induced by: Show Answer

Q32) Percentage of proteins in the fish meal is: Show Answer

Q33) Rearing and breeding of fish in ponds, tanks and artificial reservoirs is called: Show Answer

Q34) Composite fish farming is called: Show Answer

Q35) Piscisculture has bright future in India due to: Show Answer

Q36) Silk, honey and lac are: Show Answer

Q37) The draught breeds of cattle include: Show Answer

Q38) The method maximum used in cattle breeding is: Show Answer

Q39) Rinderpest is the disease of: Show Answer

Q40) Which of the following countries has maximum average annual milk yield per cow? Show Answer

Q41) Which of the following countries has minimum average annual milk yield per cow? Show Answer

Q42) Which of the following diseases in poultry is caused by nutritional deficiency? Show Answer

Q43) Ranikhet or New Castle Disease of poultry is caused by: Show Answer

Q44) The animal close to human beings which is cloned by an American scientist Dr. Don Wolf 1996 is: Show Answer

Q45) Ambergris is the secretion from the intestine of used in the manufacture of perfumes and other cosmetics: Show Answer

Q46) Parthenogenesis is commonly found in: Show Answer

Q47) The length of silk fibre which surrounds a cocoon is about: Show Answer

Q48) Technique of silk production from the cocoons of silkworms was first known to: Show Answer

Q49) Maximum cocoon and raw silk production is in: Show Answer

Q50) Central Silk Research and Training Institute (CSRTI) is located at: Show Answer

Q51) Most commercial silkworm strain is: Show Answer

Q52) Larval form of silk moth is called: Show Answer

Q53) Eri silk is produced by: Show Answer

Q54) Passive, non-locomotory and non-feeding stage in life history of Silk moth is: Show Answer

Q55) Nosemia sp. a protozoan produces diseases in: Show Answer

Q56) Which type of silk is obtained from Bombyx mori? Show Answer

Q57) Silk glands of silkworm are modified: Show Answer

Q58) Hinny is a cross breed between: Show Answer

Q59) Poultry includes: Show Answer

Q60) The percentage of proteins in the egg white is: Show Answer

Q61) Main protein type found in egg white is: Show Answer

Q62) Central Food Technological Research Institute is located at: Show Answer

Q63) Percentage of proteins is found maximally in: Show Answer

Q64) Which one of the following is out indigenous breed of chicken? Show Answer

Q65) A hybrid variety produced, having more meat producing capacity, in chickens is: Show Answer

Q66) Which of the following has been recently used for increasing productivity of super milk cows: Show Answer

Q67) The name of the sheep which was cloned for the first time is Show Answer

Q68) Inland fisheries is referred to: Show Answer

Q69) On the basis of utility, Nagpuri buffaloes are categorised as: Show Answer

Q70) Natural silk contains: Show Answer

Q71) In India the best aquarium is located at: Show Answer

Q72) Pearl oyster belongs to class: Show Answer

Q73) Lac is produced as: Show Answer

Q74) Which one is the best silk? Show Answer

Q75) Lac is produced from: Show Answer

Q76) Silkworm spins its cocoon: Show Answer

Q77) The three major carps. -Cattla, Labeo, and Cirhinus grown in the same pond are due to: Show Answer

Q78) The Indian tiger prawn is: Show Answer

Q79) Shagreen is obtained from: Show Answer

Q80) Isinglass is obtained from: Show Answer

Q81) Lac is: Show Answer

Q82) It is now possible to breed plants and animals with desired characters through: Show Answer

Q83) The large distribution of clean quality milk all the world over can be said to be due to the great work of: Show Answer

Q84) In lac insect, lac is produced from: Show Answer

Q85) The honey bees exhibit a type of dance to communicate the location of food. This is known as: Show Answer

Q86) Arrhenotoky is a type of: Show Answer

Q87) Which among the following is the real product of honey bee? Show Answer

Q88) Which one of the following is the source of silk? Show Answer

Q89) Which one of the following mollusca groups is primarily used in the pearl formation? Show Answer

Q90) Main composition of lac is: Show Answer

Q91) Main product of poultry is: Show Answer

Q92) The insect that is not found in the wild state is: Show Answer

Q93) The scientific name of lac insect is: Show Answer

Q94) The milch breeds of cattle are? Show Answer

Q95) Common wild rock honey bee is: Show Answer

Q96) Tassar silk moth belongs to the family: Show Answer

Q97) The Indian carp is: Show Answer

Q98) Gambusia is a: Show Answer

Q99) Silk glands are modified: Show Answer

Q100) Largest silk producing state of India is: Show Answer

Q101) Pearl producing Indian species is: Show Answer

Q102) The world's highly prized wool yielding 'Pashmlna breed' is: Show Answer

Q103) Which of the following is the sequence of cultivation of fish? Show Answer

Q104) The amount of protein per 100 g (without water, approximately 2 eggs) is: Show Answer

Q105) MOET is method of: Show Answer

Q106) When cross is made between two species of the same genus, then the cross is known as: Show Answer

Q107) Which one of the following types of silk is being produced extensively in South India? Show Answer

Q108) Mating between two individuals differeing in genotype to produce genetic variation is called: Show Answer

Q109) Which of the following organisms is useful for us? Show Answer

Q110) Compared to a bull a bullock is docile because of: Show Answer

Q111) Which of the following diseases is/are poultry disease?
A. aspergillosis
B. ranikhet disease
C. gill rot
D. black rot Show Answer

Q112) A breed of cow is mated with closely related breed for five generations. It was found that production of milk has reduced subsequently and the animals are not keeping good health. Which of the following methods of animal breeding can overcome this problem? Show Answer

Q113) Which of the following points should be kept into consideration for successful bee keeping?
A. selection of suitable location for keeping the beehives
B. light management according to the habits of honey bees
C. knowledge of the behavior of honey bees
D. handling and collection of honey and beewax was. Show Answer

Q114) Which of the following methods of breeding increases the change of homozygosity? Show Answer

Q115) Multiple ovulation embryo transfer technology (MOET) induces which of the following in cow? Show Answer

Q116) Mule is produced by a cross between Show Answer

Q117) One of the following is an improved variety of chicken Show Answer

Q118) MOET is a programme that is used to increase Show Answer

Q119) Honeybee species reared most widely in India is Show Answer

Q120) Which of the following is a domesticated insect? Show Answer

Q121) Which pairing is correct? Show Answer

Q122) The wax gland in honeybee is found in Show Answer

Q123) Which is/are common fresh water fishes? Show Answer

Q124) Which is/are common marine fishes? Show Answer

Q125) Which one is also included in animal husbandry?
A. Poultry farming
B. Fish farming
C. Organic farming
D. Molecular farming Show Answer

Q126) Exotic breeds are -
A. used for cross breeding
B. hardy
C. to be provided specific environment
D. resistant to local pests and pathogens Show Answer

Q127) Which statement is correct?
A. The maintenance of hives of honeybees for the production is called apiculture.
B. A group of animals related by descent and similar in most characters are called a breed.
C. The agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock is called animal husbandry.
D. The ability of plant cells to regenerate into complete plant is called somaclonal variation. Show Answer

Q128) Given below are four statements (A to D) each with one or two blanks. Select the option which correctly fills up the blanks in the statements.
Statements :
A. Use of chemicals or radiation in inducing _____ to develop improved varieties of plants is called _____.
B. _____ deals with the Culturing and rearing of freshwater organisms and the production of fishes is called ____.
C. An organism or its karyotype having more than two genomes is called _____.
D. _____ is a larvivorous fish which eat larva of mosquito. Show Answer

Q129) The animal husbandry deals with the care, breeding and management of Show Answer

Q130) India and China have more than 70% of world live stock population and produce following percentage of world farm produce Show Answer

Q131) The rearing of domesticated fowl is called Show Answer

Q132) The following process of breeding increases homozygosity Show Answer

Q133) MOET stands for Show Answer

Q134) Hisardale is a new breed of sheep developed in Punjab by crossing Show Answer

Q135) In live stock breeding experiments, the following stage is transferred to surrogate mothers Show Answer

Q136) 'Lean meat' is considered to be of high quality since it has Show Answer

Q137) The most common species for bee-keeping in India is Show Answer

Q138) Which of the food fish is not marine Show Answer

Q139) The fishery does not include the rearing, catching and processing of Show Answer

Q140) The 'Mule' is the result of Show Answer

Q141) The development and flourishment of fishery industry has lead to Show Answer

Q142) Read the following four statements (A-D).
A. Colostrum is recommended for the new born because it is rich in antigens.
B. Chikengunya is caused by a Gram negative bacterium.
C. Tissue culture has proved useful in obtaining virus-free plants.
D. Beer is manufactured by distillation of fermented grape juice.
How many of the above statements are wrong? Show Answer

Q143) Which one of the following species of bees is used for the commercial production of honey? Show Answer

Q144) Which one of the following is a breed of cattle? Show Answer

Q145) Colchicine brings about: Show Answer

Q146) Triticale has been developed through intergeneric hybridisation between: Show Answer

Q147) Best method to increase crop yield is (e. g. wheat) Show Answer

Q148) Crosses involving plants of the same variety are: Show Answer

Q149) An old breeding technique is: Show Answer

Q150) Aim of plant breeding is to: Show Answer

Q151) Pure line breeds refer to: Show Answer

Q152) Quarantine regulation is meant for: Show Answer

Q153) Androgenic haploids were produced from anther culture for the first time by: Show Answer

Q154) Emasculation is removal of: Show Answer

Q155) Selection is method of: Show Answer

Q156) Central Sugarcane Breeding Research Institute is situated at: Show Answer

Q157) Continued self pollination results in: Show Answer

Q158) Genetic diversity of agricultural crops is threatened by: Show Answer

Q159) Haploid plants are preferred over diploid plants for study of mutation because in haploids: Show Answer

Q160) Crop plants grown in monoculture are: Show Answer

Q161) Callus can form shoot or root by changing ratio of: Show Answer

Q162) Embryo culture is employed in: Show Answer

Q163) In tissue culture, single germinating pollen grain will form a plant. Show Answer

Q164) Somaclonal variations are obtained through: Show Answer

Q165) For producing protoplasts from plant cells, which of the following are required? Show Answer

Q166) Improved varieties of wheat suitable for Indian climates have been developed by: Show Answer

Q167) Triticum aestivum is: Show Answer

Q168) Which of the following yield an aromatic essential oil used as antiseptic, as fly repellent and modifier in hair lotion? Show Answer

Q169) Teak is obtained from plant: Show Answer

Q170) A milk-like preparation can be made from the seeds of: Show Answer

Q171) Vegetables are chief source of: Show Answer

Q172) The cheapest high energy crop of India is: Show Answer

Q173) Quinine is obtained from bark of: Show Answer

Q174) Sugars extracted from sugarcane and sugar beet differ in: Show Answer

Q175) The drug which reduces blood pressure is obtained from: Show Answer

Q176) Increase in food production is necessary because of: Show Answer

Q177) The green revolution in India was possible due to: Show Answer

Q178) New varieties of plants can be produced by: Show Answer

Q179) Which of the following is insect pest resistance? Show Answer

Q180) Which of the following is resistance to leaf and stripe rust: Show Answer

Q181) Indian Agriculture Research Institute is situated at: Show Answer

Q182) The botanical name of sweet flag, commonly used as antispasmodic, expectorant and remedies for asthma and chronic diarrhoea is: Show Answer

Q183) Pennisetum and Sorghum are of African origin, while rice originated in: Show Answer

Q184) Two temperate cereals, sometimes cultivated at high altitude in the tropics, are: Show Answer

Q185) Rice, maize, sorghum and millets are the principal cereals of the: Show Answer

Q186) The part of the grain in cereals, where much of the protein lies is the: Show Answer

Q187) The hexaploid wheat species from which modern types of wheat have been developed: Show Answer

Q188) Pulses belong to the family: Show Answer

Q189) The largest wheat producing country is: Show Answer

Q190) The scientific name of maize is: Show Answer

Q191) Taichung native-the dwarf rice variety in India is a native of: Show Answer

Q192) Pathogen free plants are obtained from: Show Answer

Q193) High yielding variety of rice is: Show Answer

Q194) The botanical name of popcorn is: Show Answer

Q195) Maize has less protein content than: Show Answer

Q196) Maize grain is rich in: Show Answer

Q197) Maize grain is deficient in: Show Answer

Q198) The term Plantain refers to: Show Answer

Q199) The fruits of the plants which yield oil and fibres: Show Answer

Q200) Gum arabic is obtained from wild and semicultivated trees, in Sudan of: Show Answer

Q201) Which of the following is not a true pulse crop? Show Answer

Q202) The species which yield commercial cotton belongs to the genus: Show Answer

Q203) Anatomically, cotton fibres are: Show Answer

Q204) Which of the following is not a root vegetable? Show Answer

Q205) The cotton fibre from the cotton plant is obtained from: Show Answer

Q206) The commercial jute fibres are: Show Answer

Q207) Paddy is suitable for cultivation in: Show Answer

Q208) Fibre yielding plant is: Show Answer

Q209) Which one of the following is not an important Indian millet? Show Answer

Q210) The scientific name of Jowar is: Show Answer

Q211) The scientific name of Bajra is: Show Answer

Q212) The composition of cotton fibre is: Show Answer

Q213) The fibre crop occupying the largest area in India is as under: Show Answer

Q214) Fibres are made of: Show Answer

Q215) Which is the most important source of food and fodder? Show Answer

Q216) Gram belongs to family: Show Answer

Q217) Quite often pulse-crops are not manured with nitrogenous fertilisers. It is so because: Show Answer

Q218) Sugar is extracted besides sugarcane from: Show Answer

Q219) Indian rubber tree belongs to: Show Answer

Q220) The botanical name for groundnut is: Show Answer

Q221) Safflower oil is obtained from the seeds of: Show Answer

Q222) Potato and tomato are native of: Show Answer

Q223) The plant from which chewing gum is made: Show Answer

Q224) Which of the following is not an oil seed? Show Answer

Q225) The largest groundnut producing country is: Show Answer

Q226) The oil used for the treatment of toothache is: Show Answer

Q227) The principal source of sugar is/are: Show Answer

Q228) Sugar obtained from sugarcane is: Show Answer

Q229) The dry fibrous residue left after the extraction of sugarcane juice is known as: Show Answer

Q230) Cassava is a: Show Answer

Q231) The leaf juice of which one of the following plants is used for removal of opacity of cornea of the eye? Show Answer

Q232) Castor oil is obtained from: Show Answer

Q233) Which of the following plants is an oil as well as fibre yielding crop? Show Answer

Q234) Essential oils are made of: Show Answer

Q235) Macaroni is obtained from: Show Answer

Q236) The major souce of sugar in India is: Show Answer

Q237) Which of the following groups of plant genera produces fibres of economic importance? Show Answer

Q238) The plant whose seeds yield safflower oil and the petals an orange dye is: Show Answer

Q239) The drug "Belladona" is obtained from: Show Answer

Q240) International rice research institute is at: Show Answer

Q241) The chief groundnut producing state of India is: Show Answer

Q242) Commercial latex is obtained from: Show Answer

Q243) Largest producer of sugarcane is: Show Answer

Q244) One of the recently introduced new crops of oil seed in the deserts of India is jojoba. Select the correct botanical name of this plant. Show Answer

Q245) Leucaena-a fast growing tree, has been selected as a feed yielding tree under the social forestry programme in rural area of our country. What is the common name of this tree? Show Answer

Q246) Mark the odd one with regard to the source of following edible oils: Show Answer

Q247) Vanilla is obtained from: Show Answer

Q248) Which of the following statement is correct with respect to plant species and its uses? Show Answer

Q249) Of the world's top five crops in terms of annual production: Show Answer

Q250) Which of the following is an Indian medicinal plant? Show Answer

Q251) Most of the soft wood comes from: Show Answer

Q252) An important medicine for bronchitis is obtained from: Show Answer

Q253) In which state is the coir industry concentrated: Show Answer

Q254) Margarine is prepared from: Show Answer

Q255) Which of the following yields the heaviest wood? Show Answer

Q256) Botanical name of Sanjeevani or Hasnpari is: Show Answer

Q257) Cotton fibres are obtained from: Show Answer

Q258) Lint and fuzz and associated with: Show Answer

Q259) Cash crops are the crops which are grown: Show Answer

Q260) Heavea braziliensis is a source of: Show Answer

Q261) Cereals are major sources of: Show Answer

Q262) Which one of the following is a source of textile fibre: Show Answer

Q263) Timber or wood is: Show Answer

Q264) Jute is derived from: Show Answer

Q265) The economic importance of Diospyros ebenum is for: Show Answer

Q266) Groundnut oil is obtained from the plant: Show Answer

Q267) Sweetest sugar among natural carbohydrates is: Show Answer

Q268) Axillary buds are used to raise crop of: Show Answer

Q269) From which part of Cinchona a drug is obtained: Show Answer

Q270) Jute is obtained from a plant which belongs to the family: Show Answer

Q271) Which one of the following plants yields Sun-hemp? Show Answer

Q272) The drug plant Aconitum napellus belongs to the family: Show Answer

Q273) Which one of the following countries is the centre of origin of rice? Show Answer

Q274) Long fibres of cotton seed are known as: Show Answer

Q275) Triticale is obtained by crossing wheat with: Show Answer

Q276) Before the European invader which vegetable was absent in India? Show Answer

Q277) Which of the following is the pair of biofertilizers? Show Answer

Q278) Which statement is correct about centre of origin of plant? Show Answer

Q279) A collection of plants and seeds having diverse alleles of all the genes of a crop is called: Show Answer

Q280) "Jaya" and "Ratna" developed for green revolution in India are the varieties of: Show Answer

Q281) Himgiri' developed by hybridisation and selection for disease resistance against rust pathogens is a variety of: Show Answer

Q282) Which of the following methods is/are used in recovery of healthy plants from diseased plants? Show Answer

Q283) In shoot and root culture, excess of auxin in the medium will promote Show Answer

Q284) The colour of high yielding Mexican wheats were not liked by the Indians. It was originally red grained. Their cultivation was adopted in India on large scale only when exposure to gamma radiations converted them to amber grained. Which of the following methods of plant-breeding has been put into practice in the given case? Show Answer

Q285) Which of the following is the conventional method of plant breeding for disease resistance? Show Answer

Q286) Which of the following is/are the advantage(s) of micropropagation? Show Answer

Q287) Improved rice variety IR-8 has been introduced in India from Show Answer

Q288) Tissue culture technique can produce indefinite number of new plants from a small parental tissue. The economic importance of the technique is in raising Show Answer

Q289) Amino acids present in improved varieties of maize are Show Answer

Q290) The most common sources of single cell protein are Show Answer

Q291) Which of the following shows the correct sequence of steps involved in breeding a new genetic variety of a crop?
I. Selection and testing of superior recombinants.
II. Germplasm collection.
III. Cross hybridization among the selected parents.
IV. Evaluation and selection.
V. Testing, release and commercialization of new cultivars. Show Answer

Q292) The semi dwarf wheat which was instrumental in increasing wheat production was developed by Show Answer

Q293) The plant part which is used to culture is called Show Answer

Q294) Triticale is the first man made cereal crop. The combination of parents involve its production is Triticum and Show Answer

Q295) Which one of the following characters was most important for selection of present day maize plants? Show Answer

Q296) One of the following species of wheat was most primitive and wild Show Answer

Q297) What is the common name of Triticum monococcum? Show Answer

Q298) Which one of the following is the common hexaploid bread wheat? Show Answer

Q299) Which one of the following is called macaroni wheat which is mainly used for preparing pasta and noodles? Show Answer

Q300) What was the colour of high yielding Mexican wheat? Show Answer

Q301) Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? Show Answer

Q302) Desired improved varieties of economically useful crops are raised by Show Answer

Q303) The indica variety of rice is crossed with japonica variety of rice because the later are Show Answer

Q304) In high yielding hybrid crop varieties, to exploit hybrid vigour, the farmers need to purchase fresh hybrid seed every year because Show Answer

Q305) Pomato Show Answer

Q306) Aims of plant breeding are to produce Show Answer

Q307) In which crops is the method of mass selection applied Show Answer

Q308) Both the environment and the genotype are important in the development of Show Answer

Q309) The self pollinated progeny of a homozygous plant constitute a Show Answer

Q310) The reason why vegetatively reproducing crop plants are best suited for maintaining Hybrid vigour is that Show Answer

Q311) Plants having similar genotypes produced by plant breeding are called Show Answer

Q312) Hybrid vigour is mostly due to Show Answer

Q313) A crop-produce should provide the optimum nutrition and must not contain an Show Answer

Q314) The emasculation of flower buds is achieved by the removal of Show Answer

Q315) Sterilization means Show Answer

Q316) The substance used for solidification of nutrient medium is Show Answer

Q317) An unorganised mass of cells is called Show Answer

Q318) The ability of plant cell to give rise to an entire new plant is called Show Answer

Q319) Culturing of isolated plant organs is called Show Answer

Q320) Mature embryos are mostly Show Answer

Q321) A novel technique devised to produce vast quantities of strong and healthy plantlets by rapid vegetative multiplication under controlled conditions Show Answer

Q322) Select the correct statement(s) -
I. IARI has released a mustard variety rich in vitamin C.
II. Pusa Sawani variety of Okra is resistant to aphids.
III. Hairiness of leaves provides resistance to insect pests.
IV. Agriculture accounts for approximately 33% of India's GDP and employs nearly 62% of the population. Show Answer

Q323) In hybridization, the haploids combine the advantages of Show Answer

Q324) Which one of the following is not a secondary metabolite? Show Answer

Q325) Who gave the idea that every plant cell is totipotent Show Answer

Q326) Name the Japanese cytologist who cultured anthers for the first time Show Answer

Q327) In order to obtain disease-free plants through tissue culture techniques, the best method is Show Answer

Q328) The best way to obtain Bacteria and viruses free plants through tissue culture Show Answer

Q329) The substance used in the tissue culture medium for induction of shoots in callus is Show Answer

Q330) In tissue culture medium, the embryoids formed from pollen grains is due to Show Answer

Q331) Haploid plantlets can be produced by Show Answer

Q332) The technique of obtaining large number of plantlets by tissue culture method is called Show Answer

Q333) 'Norin gene' of dwarfness in wheat originated through spontaneous mutation in Show Answer

Q334) Dharwar American Variety of cotton is the product of Show Answer

Q335) Selection of homozygous plant is Show Answer

Q336) Triticum aestivum, the common bread wheat is Show Answer

Q337) Scientists are trying to get hybridization between tomato and potato. The most accurate name would be Show Answer

Q338) Which of the following is not HYV of paddy? Show Answer

Q339) Which part of the plant is best suited for making virus free plants? Show Answer

Q340) Apiculture is associated with the maintenance of Show Answer

Q341) Inbreeding increases Show Answer

Q342) Which of the following is the consequence of plant diseases? Show Answer

Q343) Fill up the blanks - Saccharum barberi was originally grown in north India, but had ___A___ sugar content and yield. Tropical canes grown in south India Saccharum officinarum has ____B___ stems and ____C___ sugar content but did not grow well in north India. These two species were successfully crossed to get sugar cane varieties combining the desirable qualities of high yield, ___D___ stems, ___E___ sugar and ability to grow in the sugar cane areas of ___F___ India. Show Answer

Q344) Select the correct statements Show Answer

Q345) Select the correct statements Show Answer

Q346) The flowers of which plant are not pollinated by bee? Show Answer

Q347) Bees are important for Show Answer

Q348) IPGRI is abbreviation of Show Answer

Q349) Shoot develops in tissue culture when there is Show Answer

Q350) Norman Borlaug is associated with Show Answer

Q351) Borlaug developed new varieties of Show Answer

Q352) Haploids of Datura were obtained through Show Answer

Q353) Fill in the blanks - Semi-dwarf rice varieties were derived from ____A____, (developed at International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines) and Taichung Native-1 (from ____B____). The derivatives were introduced in ____C____. Later better-yielding semidwarf varieties Jaya and Ratna were developed in ____D___. Show Answer

Q354) An improved variety is Show Answer

Q355) An important germplasm storing center in India is Show Answer

Q356) Pure line variety of wheat is Show Answer

Q357) Evaluation of new variety in India is done by Show Answer

Q358) Gene responsible for dwarfing in wheat is Show Answer

Q359) Scented basmati rice is the contribution of Show Answer

Q360) Which of the following is an example of inter-generic hybridization? Show Answer

Q361) The dwarf wheat varieties brought from Mexico into India were Show Answer

Q362) Antinutritional factor, neurotoxic cyanoalanine is found in Show Answer

Q363) Cereals and millets are mainly deficient in which amino acids? Show Answer

Q364) Which of the following is incorrect w.r.t. SCP? Show Answer

Q365) The objectives of breeding improved nutritional quality of crops are to increase Show Answer

Q366) Select the correct statement(s) Show Answer

Q367) Which statement(s) is correct? Show Answer

Q368) Which of the following has been developed by India? Show Answer

Q369) The conventional method of breeding for resistance includes which of the following steps? Show Answer

Q370) Which one is correct about Atlas 66? Show Answer

Q371) High yielding, semi dwarf varieties of rice are Show Answer

Q372) Select the false statement(s) Show Answer

Q373) Which is/are false? Show Answer

Q374) Which of the following matching is correct? Show Answer

Q375) Cryopreservation is -
A. preservation at ultra low temperature
B. preservation in liquid nitrogen
C. preservation through exposure to gamma rays
D. preservation of semen Show Answer

Q376) Which one is a source of single cell protein?
A. Nostoc
B. Spirulina
C. Chlorella
D. Scenedesmus Show Answer

Q377) Which of the following is a source of single cell protein?
A. Saccharomyces
B. Torulopsis
C. Candida
D. Fusarium Show Answer

Q378) Which one is a chemical mutagen?
A. Ethylmethane sulphonate
B. Sodium azide
C. Gamma rays
D. 2, 4-D Show Answer

Q379) Which of the following is a variety of rice?
A. Bala
B. Kalyan sona
C. Jaya
D. Sonars 64 Show Answer

Q380) Which one is a rich source of vitamin A?
A. Carrot
B. Spinach
C. Lemon
D. Beans Show Answer

Q381) Which factors are responsible for development of disease in a plant?
A. Susceptible host
B. Aggressive pathogen
C. Conducive environment
D. Excess of fertilizer Show Answer

Q382) Given below are five statements (A to E) each with one or two blanks. Select the option which correctly fills up the blanks in the statements.
Statements :
A. When a hybrid is produced by _____ of somatic cells of two varieties or species, it is known as _____.
B. _____ is the
tissue culture technique used for rapid vegetative multiplication of ornamental plants and fruit trees by using small sized emplants.
C. _____ is the sum total of all the alleles of the genes present in a crop and its related species.
D. A _____ is a hybrid of male donkey and a female horse.
E. The hybrid between the female donkey and male horse is called ____. Show Answer

Q383) Given below are the statements (A to E) each with one blank. Select the option which correctly fills up the blanks in the statements.
Statements :
A. For the process of hybridization, selfing of parents is done, to reduce the _____.
B. Performance of a crop or an animal depends mainly on its genotype and the _____ in which it is grown.
C. An ____ is excised from its original location and used for initiating a culture.
D. The scientific name of Indian cattle is ____.
E. MOET (multiple ovulation embryo transfer) is a method of _____. Show Answer

Q384) Identify the false statements -
I. One of the objectives of plant breeding is to develop disease, insect and pest resistant varieties.
II. Plant breeding is both art and science.
III. Catla and Rohu are the most eaten marine fishes in our country.
IV. South Indian sugarcane variety Saccharum officinarum has thiner stem and lower sugar content than the North Indian one. Show Answer

Q385) Green revolution in India occurred during Show Answer