Tag: plant breeding

Questions Related to plant breeding

A cybrid is hybrid carrying

  1. Genomes and cytoplams of two different plants

  2. Cytoplasms of two different plants

  3. Cytoplasms of two different plants but genome of one plant

  4. Genomes of two different plants

  5. Cytoplasms of several plants but genomes of two plants.


Correct Option: C

Branch of biology dealing with improvement of plant variety

  1. Eugenics

  2. Plant breeding

  3. Agrology

  4. Serendipity


Correct Option: B

From which technique, new and better varieties of crop plants are formed

  1. Selection

  2. Hybridisation

  3. Grafting

  4. Hybridisation followed by selection.


Correct Option: D

During hybridisation, offspring with hybrid vigour superior to both parents are self pollinated for a few successive generations to .............

  1. Retain their parental characters

  2. Remove their parental characters

  3. Get homozygosity

  4. Segregate characters.


Correct Option: C

During somatic hybridisation in plants

  1. Somaclones are produced in large numbers

  2. Apical meristems are cultured to get virus-free plant

  3. Cell walls and middle lamella are digested before fusing the cells

  4. Crop plants with higher levels of vitamins, proteins, and minerals are hybridised.


Correct Option: C

For hybridisation, which part is removed from bisexual flowers

  1. Stigma

  2. Stigma and style

  3. Anthers

  4. Ovary.


Correct Option: C

Consider the following statements: Hybrid plants can show.
a. Sterility
b. Mosaicism
c. Crossing over
d. Vigour
e. Homozygosis
Which of the statements are correct?

  1. $2, 3$ and $5$

  2. $2, 4$ and $5$

  3. $1, 2$ and $4$

  4. $1, 3$ and $4$


Correct Option: A

Plant breeders are interested in apomixes because it __________________.

  1. Improves seed-set

  2. Shortens the life cycle

  3. Yields clonal progeny

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A

A breeder crossed a pure bred all plant having white flowers to a pure bred short plant having blue flowers. He obtained $202\ F _{1}$ progeny and found that they are all tall having white flowers. Upon selfing there $F _{1}$ plants, he obtained a progeny of $2160$ plants. Approximately, how many of these are likely to be short and having blue flowers?

  1. $1215$

  2. $405$

  3. $540$

  4. $135$


Correct Option: D

Process of bringing wild species of plants under cultivation to suit human needs is called

  1. selection

  2. hybridization

  3. domestication

  4. cultivation


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Domestication is the process where wild plant and animal species are adapted into the cultivation area for human use.
The species that are domesticated are used for food, work, medicine and various other uses.
Once the wild species are being domesticated they need to be raised and cared for by humans.
So, the correct option is 'domestication'