Strategies for enhancement in food production | Basic Level Test | Topic 2: Plant breeding, SCP, Tissue culture

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Topic 2: Plant breeding, SCP, Tissue culture

Each question carries 4 scores. For each incorrect response, 1 score will be deducted.

1

The development and flourishing in the field of agriculture is known as

(a) Green revolution (b) Blue revolution (c) Yellow revolution (d) White revolution

2

The entire collection of plants/seeds having all the alleles for all genes in a given crop is called .............. collection.

(a) Explant (b) Gene pool (c) Genome (d) Germplasm

3

Sonalika & Kalyan Sona are high yielding and disease resistant .............. varieties introduced in India.

(a) Maize (b) Bajra (c) Wheat (d) Rice

4

In bhindi (Abelmoschus esculentus), resistance to yellow mosaic virus was transferred from a wild species. It resulted in a new variety of A. esculentus called

(a) Saccharum officinarum (b) Parbhani kranti (c) Pusa swarnim (d) Pusa Sem 2

5

Pusa Gaurav is a

(a) Bhindi (b) Brassica (c) Flat bean (d) Mung bean

6

Breeding crops with higher levels of nutrients is called

(a) Biofortification (b) Biomagnification (c) Micropropagation (d) Mutation breeding

7

A typical example for SCP is

(a) Azolla (b) Pomato (c) Spirulina (d) Yeast

8

A technique of growing plant cells/tissues/organs in sterile culture medium under controlled aseptic conditions is called

(a) Somatic hybridization (b) Aquaculture (c) Tissue culture (d) Cross hybridization

9

The ability to generate a whole plant from any cell/explant is called

(a) Micropropagation (b) Tissue culture (c) Pluripotency (d) Totipotency

10

The fusion of protoplasts from two different varieties of plants with desirable characters to get hybrid protoplasts is called

(a) Somatic hybridization (b) Mutation breeding (c) Micropropagation (d) Interspecific hybridization

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