Find the wrong match.
1. Wheat → Pusa Shubra
2. Cauliflower → Pusa Snowball K-1
3. Chilli → Pusa Sadabahar
4. Brassica → Pusa Swarnim
Classical plant breeding involves:
1. Hybridisation of pure lines
2. Domestication
3. Tissue culture
4. Using molecular genetic tools
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
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
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
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
To induce follicular maturation and super-ovulation, a cow is administered a hormone with activity like:
1. FSH
2. LH
3. Estrogen
4. Progesterone
Which of the following is a freshwater edible fish?
1. Hilsa
2. Mackerel
3. Pomfret
4. Common carp
The reduced biological fitness in a given population as a result of breeding of related individuals is called as:
1.Heterosis
2.Heterozygote advantage
3 Inbreeding depression
4.Saltation
In MOET, the fertilized eggs at 8 – 32 cells stage is transferred to the surrogate rather than the genetic mother because:
1 The surrogate chosen is of a different breed from the genetic mother
2.The surrogate mother is of a younger age
3.The genetic mother is available for another round of super ovulation
4.The genetic mother is of an inferior breed