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Improvement in Food Production: MCQs Quiz - 1

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Question 1

Norman Borlaug the ‘Father of Green Revolution’ has developed a highly recognized and appreciated cultivating variety of ______.

A	Wheat
B	Rice
C	Onion
D	Sugarcane

Question 2

Which one of the following helps in absorption of phosphorus from soil by plants?

A	Anabaena
B	Glomus
C	Rhizobium
D	Frankia

Question 3

Selection of homozygous plant is

A	Mixed selection
B	Mass selection
C	Pure line selection
D	none of these

Question 4

An organism used as biofertilizer for raising soybean crop is

A	Nostoc
B	Azotobacter
C	Azospirillum
D	Rhizobium

Question 5

In tissue culture medium, the embryoids formed from pollen grains is due to

A	Double fertilization
B	Organogenesis
C	Cellular totipotency
D	Test tube culture

Question 6

Haploid plantlets can be produced by

A	Embryo culture
B	Pollen culture
C	Cotyledon culture
D	Meristem culture

Question 7

Somaclones are obtained by

A	Genetic engineering
B	Tissue culture
C	Plant breeding
D	Irradiation

Question 8

Pure line breeds refer to

A	Heterozygosity
B	Homozygosity only
C	Homozygosity and independent assortment
D	Heterozygosity and linkage

Question 9

A large proportion of cultivated plants are _______.

A	Aneuploids
B	Allopolyploids
C	Autopolyploids
D	Haploids

Question 10

Which one of the following scientist’s names is correctly matched with the theory put forth by him?

A	Mendel – Theory of Pangenesis
B	Weismann – Theory of continuity of Germplasm
C	Pasteur – Inheritance of acquired characters
D	de Vries – Natural selection

Question 11

Which one of the following pair is incorrectly matched in respect to the "crop varieties for disease resistance"?

A	Cowpea - Bacterial blight
B	Brassica - White rust
C	Wheat - Leaf and stripe rust
D	Cauliflower - Tobacco mosaic virus and leaf curl

Question 12

Necrosis, or death of tissue particularly leaf tissue, is due to the deficiency of

A	N, K, S
B	N, K, Mg and Fe
C	Mn, Zn and Mo
D	Ca, Mg, Cu and K

Question 13

"Jaya" and "Ratna" developed for green revolution in India are the varieties of

A	Bajra
B	Maize
C	Rice
D	Wheat

Question 14

The entire collections of plants/seeds having all diverse alleles for all the genes of a crop is called

A	Germplasm
B	Herbarium
C	Genome
D	Gene library

Question 15

The capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell/explants is called

A	Pluripotency
B	Cell cloning
C	Tissue culture
D	Totipotency

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