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

'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

Somaclones are obtained by

1. tissue culture

2. plant breeding

3. irradiation

4. genetic engineering

Transgenic plants are

1. produced by a somatic embryo in artificial medium

2. generated by introducing foreign DNA in to a cell and regenerating a plant from that

cell

3. produced after protoplast fusion in artificial medium

4. grown in artificial medium after hybridisation in the field