The most practical means to improve public health and enriching foods with vitamins and minerals would include.

1. Micropropagation

2. Use of single cell proteins

3. Biofortification

4. Developing pest resistant crops

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By cross hybridisation of Saccharum barberi and Saccharum officinarum sugarcane varieties obtained have the desired qualities except one of the following

1. High yield.

2. High levels of sugar.

3. Resistance to jassids.

4. Thick stems.

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Which of the following varieties is not associated with the increase in rice production during green revolution.

1. IR8

2. Jaya

3. Kalyan Sona

4. Ratna

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Find the wrong match.

1. Wheat → Pusa Shubra

2. Cauliflower → Pusa Snowball K-1

3. Chilli → Pusa Sadabahar

4. Brassica → Pusa Swarnim

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Classical plant breeding involves:

1. Hybridisation of pure lines

2. Domestication

3. Tissue culture

4. Using molecular genetic tools

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Resistance to yellow mosaic virus in Abelmoschus esculentus was transferred from a wild species and a new variety was produced, which is called:

1. Pusa sawani

2. Pusa A-4

3. Parbhani kranti

4. Himgiri

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High aspartic acid, low nitrogen and sugar content in maize lead to resistance in maize against:

1. Aphids

2. Stem borers

3. Jassids

4. Stem sawfly

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Select the incorrect statement with respect to Atlas 66:

1. A wheat variety having high protein content

2. Used as a donor for improving cultivated wheat

3. Is a variety of mexican dwarf wheat

4. Has been used for biofortification

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Find the mis-match:

1. Explant - Plant part used for tissue culture
2. Somaclones - Variations produced during micropropagation
3. Callus - Undifferentiated mass of cells
4. Totipotency- Capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell
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To induce follicular maturation and super-ovulation, a cow is administered a hormone with activity like:

1. FSH

2. LH

3. Estrogen

4. Progesterone

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