Statement I: | It is a breed of chicken originating in Tuscany, in central Italy. |
Statement II: | Chicken descended from the wild red jungle fowl of India. |
Assertion (A): | In Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer Technology [MOET], the fertilised eggs at 8-32 cell stages, are transferred to surrogate mothers and not to the genetic mothers. |
Reason (R): | Genetic mothers normally do not have a uterus and cannot support gestation. |
1. | Both (A) and (R) are false. |
2. | (A) is true but (R) is false. |
3. | Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) does not explain (A). |
4. | Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A). |
Assertion (A): | Keeping beehives in crop fields during the flowering period is beneficial both from the point of view of crop yield and honey yield. |
Reason (R): | Bee-keeping can be practiced in any area where there are sufficient bee pastures of some wild shrubs, fruit orchards and cultivated crops. |
1. | Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A). |
2. | (A) is true but (R) is false. |
3. | Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). |
4. | Both (A) and (R) are false. |
1. | Banana | 2. | Brassica |
3. | Apple | 4. | Pear |
A: | Commercial breeding of fish, usually for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds. |
B: | Controlled cultivation of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus). |
Assertion (A): | Collection and preservation of all the wild varieties of crops is important for an effective germplasm collection. |
Reason (R): | In many crops, pre-existing genetic variability is available from wild relatives of the crop. |
1. | Both (A) and (R) are false. |
2. | Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) does not explain (A). |
3. | Assertion is true but (R) is false. |
4. | Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). |
Assertion (A): | Cross hybridising the two parents to produce hybrids that genetically combine the desired characters present in the parents is a tedious and time-consuming process. |
Reason (R): | The desired characters have very often to be combined from two different plants [parents]. |
1. | Both (A) and Reason are true but (R) does not explain (A). |
2. | Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). |
3. | Both (A) and (R) are false. |
4. | (A) is true but (R) is false. |
I: | New cultivars produced by plant breeding are first evaluated in research fields and their performance is recorded under ideal fertiliser application, irrigation, and other crop management practices. |
II: | After evaluation in research fields, the new cultivars are tested in farmers’ fields for at least three growing seasons at several locations in the country. |
1. | Only I | 2. | Only II |
3. | Both I and II | 4. | Neither I nor II |
Assertion (A): | India had to strive to increase yields per unit area from existing farmlands for the success of Green revolution in the 1960s. |
Reason (R): | Only limited land was available for cultivation. |
1. | Both (A) and Reason are false. |
2. | Both (A) and Reason are true but (R) does not explain (A). |
3. | (A) is true but (R) is false. |
4. | Both (A) and Reason are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). |