To obtain virus-free healthy plants from a diseased one by tissue culture technique, which

part/parts of the diseased plant will be taken?

1. Apical meristem only

2. Palisade parenchyma

3. Both apical and axillary meristems

4. Epidermis only

In plant breeding programmes, the entire collection (of plants/seeds) having all the diverse alleles for all genes in a given crop is called

1. selection of superior recombinations

2. cross-hybridisation among the selected parents

3. evaluation and selection of parents

4. germplasm collection

Which part would be most suitable for raising virus-free plants for micropropagation?

Consumption of which one of the following foods can prevent the kind of blindness

associated with vitamin-A deficiency ?

1. Flaver savr tomato

2. Canolla

3. Golden rice

4. Bt-brinjal

Which one of the following is a case of wrong matching ?

1. Somatic hybridisation - Fusion of two diverse cells

2. Vector DNA - Site for tRNA synthesis

3. Micropropogation - In vitro production of plants in large numbers

4. Callus - Unorganised mass of cells produced in tissue culture

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

1. rice

2. wheat 

3. bajra

4. maize

A collection of plants and seeds having diverse alleles of all the genes of a crop is called

1. germplasm

2. gene library

3. genome

4. herbarium

'Himgiri' developed by hybridisation and selection for disease resistance against rust pathogens is a variety of

1. maize

2. sugarcane

3. wheat

4. chilli

When two unrelated individuals or lines are crossed, the performance of F₁ hybrid is often

superior to both its parents. This phenomenon is called

1. transformation

2. splicing

3. metamorphosis

4. heterosis

Breeding of crops with high levels of minerals, vitamins and proteins is called

1. somatic hybridisation

2. biofortification

3. biomagnification

4. micropropogation