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Food Production and Plant Breeding (AIPVT)

Covers types of hybridization (interspecific, intergeneric, somatic, cybrid), polyploidy, wheat evolution, and modern crop breeding techniques including genetic engineering.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A radish-cabbage cross is a type of

  1. interspecific hybridisation
  2. intergeneric hybridisation
  3. cybridisation
  4. somatic hybridisation
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

F1 hybrids are always sterile in

  1. interspecific hybridisation
  2. intergeneric hybridisation
  3. somatic hybridisation
  4. cybridisation
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Colchicine helps in

  1. protein synthesis
  2. DNA replication
  3. doubling of chromosomes
  4. spindle formation
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When is intergeneric hybridisation used?

  1. When the genes for desirable characters are found in species of the same genus
  2. When the genes for desirable characters are not found between two different genera of the same family
  3. When sexual incompatibility can be overcome
  4. When successful hybridisation is desired always
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the crossing between two species of the same genus called?

  1. Intergeneric hybridisation
  2. Interspecific hybridisation
  3. Somatic hybridisation
  4. Cybridisation
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the ploidy of Triticum aestivum?

  1. Triploid
  2. Tetraploid
  3. Hexaploid
  4. Diploid
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

T. duran was evolved from

  1. T. speltoids
  2. T. monococcum
  3. T. beoticum
  4. T. turgidum
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is an interspecific hybridisation?

  1. B. oleracea X T. aestivum
  2. R. sativus X B. oleracea capitata
  3. T. aestivum X T. compactum
  4. T. aestivum X S. cereale
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Triticale is obtained when wheat is crossed with

  1. maize
  2. oats
  3. rye
  4. rice
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which is the first man-made crop?

  1. Triticale
  2. Raphanobrassica
  3. UP-2382
  4. UP-1109
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

______ is the modern bread wheat.

  1. T. monococcum
  2. T. aestivum
  3. T. turgidum
  4. T. beoticum
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How is creation of new plants possible?

  1. Interspecific hybridisation
  2. Intergeneric hybridisation
  3. Cybridisation
  4. Somatic hybridisation
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which hybridisation method is used to transfer disease resistance and male sterility?

  1. Intergeneric hybridisation
  2. Interspecific hybridisation
  3. Cybridisation
  4. Somatic hybridisation
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What are the plants modified by genetic engineering called?

  1. Hybrid plants
  2. Transgenic plants
  3. Elite plants
  4. Improved varieties
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Kanchan, Swati, Sujata and Sonalika are improved varieties of

  1. maize
  2. wheat
  3. rye
  4. rice
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