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    Post Graduate School Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi Examination for Admission to Ph.D. Programme 2011-2012 Discipline : Agricultural Stat d Discipline Code : 06 Roll No, Please Note: x ()_ This question paper contains 12 pages. Please check whether all the pages are printed in this set, Report discrepancy, if any, Immediately to the invigilator. i) There shall be NEGATIVE marking for WRONG answers in the Multiple Choice ype questions (No. I to 95) which carry one mark each. For every wrong answer 0.25 mark will be deducted. 5. To address the probloms of sustainable and PART ~ | (General Agricultura) holistic development of rainfed areas, including appropriate farming and livelihood Multiple choice questions (No. 1 to 30). ‘system approaches, the Government of india Choose the correct answer (a, 6, ¢ or d) has set up the and enter your choice In the circle (by | a) National Rainfed Area Authority shading with a pencil) on the OMR - | >) National Watershed Development Project for answer sheet as per the instructions Rainfed Areas ) National Mission on Rainfed Areas given on the answer sheet. 4) Command Area Development and Water 1. Which of the following crops have been Management Authority ‘approved for commercial cultivation in India? 6. Which of the following sub-schemes are not a) Bt cotton and Bt brinjal covered under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas b) Bt cotton and Golden Rice Yojana? @ Bimalee and Stcoton , cee a) Extencing the Green Revolution to easter 2. This year 2010-11) the expected fod gram | Development of 80.000 pulses and oleods production In india is ©) National Mission on Saffron 2) 212 milion tonnes d) National Mission on Bamboo b) 220 million tonnes ©) 235 million tonnes 7. The minimum support price for the common @) 250 million tonnes variety of paddy announced by the ont 3. The genome of which of the following crops ee ec eeeeeeeeeeeeestee is etl not completely sequences? ee 2) Rice Bt 1000 ©), Soybean ©) to80 3) Sogn 3 € 880 3 Whbet 8. According to the Human Devélopment 4. According to the Approach Paper to the 12” Report 2010 of the United Nations, India’s fiye Year Plan, the base objective of the fain te of the nanan deepmet 2) inclusive growth Beir ») Sustainable growth a3 6) Faster, more inclusive and sustainable | 2) 124 ( cin 4) 182 \ )_ Inclusive and sustainable growth Subject bn ~ Agricultural Statisties -2011 9. Which of the following does not apply to SRI method of paddy cutivation? a) Reduced water application b) Reduced plant density ©) Increased application of chemical fertilizers d) Reduced age of seedlings 10. Which organic acid, often used as a preservative, ocours naturally in cranberries, prunes, cinnamon and.cloves? 2) Citric acic b) Benzoic acid ©) Tartaric acid ) Lactic acid 44, Cotton belongs to the family 2) Cruciferae ) Anacardiaceae ©) Malvaceae ) Solanaceae 12. Photoperiodism is 8) Bending of shoot towards source of light ') Effect of light/dark durations on physiologloal processes ©) Movement of chioroplast in cell in response to light 4) Effect of ight on chlorophyil synthesis, 18, Ergot disease is caused by which pathogen ‘on which host? a) Clavioeps purpurea on tye b) Puccinia recondita on wheat ©) Drechiera sorokiniana on wheat 4d) Albugo candida on mustard 14. Rocks are the chief sources of parent materials over which soils are developed. Grane, an important rock, is classified as @) Igneous rock b) Metamorphic rack ©) Sedimentary rock 4) Hybrid rock 18. Which one of the following Is a Kharif op? a) Pear! millet ®) Lent ©) Mustard ) Wheat 16. The costticient of variation (CV) is calculated by the formula a) (MeanS.D,) x 100 b) (S.D/Mean) x 100 ©) S.D/Mean @) Meanis.0. 17, Which of the following is commonly referred to as muriate of potash? a) Potassium nitrate ) Potassium chioride ©) Potassium sulphate 4d) Potassium silcate 18. Inbred lines that have, same genetic constitution but differ only at one locus are called 2) Multi lines b) Monohybrid ©) Isogenictines. Pure lin 18, For applying 100 kg of nitrogen, how much ‘urea would one use? a) 45k9 b) 411kg ©) 222kg * 0) 333 kg 20. The devastating impact of plant disease on human suffering and survival was. first realized by epidemic of 2) Brown spot of rice in Bengal ) Late blight of potato in USA ©) Late blight of potato in Europe 6) Rust of wheat in india 21. The species of rice (Oryza) other than O. sativa that is culvated is @) 0. ruffpugon b) ©. longisteminata ©) 0. glaberrima 9) O.nivara 22. The enzyme responsible for the fixation of CO, in mesophyll cells of C-4 plants is 2) Malle enzyme b) Phosphoenol pyruvate carboxylase ©) Phosphoenol pyruvate carboxykinase 1) RUBP carboxylase 23. Which one of the following Is a 'Vertisot’? @) Black cotton soil b) Red sandy loam soil ©) Sandy loam sodic soil 4) Submontane (Tarai) soil 24. What isthe most visible physical characteristic of celis in metaphase? ) Elongated chromosomes b) Nucleus visible but chromosomes not ©) Fragile double strancied loose chromosomes @) Condensed paired chromosomes on the cell Plate: 25. All weather phenomena like rain, fog and mist occur in 2) Troposphere b) Mesosphere ) Ionosphere @) Ozonosphere ‘Subject : PhD — Agricultural Statisties ~2011 28. Which of the following elements is common to all proteins and nucleic acids? a) Sulphur ®) Magnesium ©) Nitrogen’ @) Phosphorous 27. Silt has intermediate characteristics between a). Sand and loam b) Clay and loam ©) Loam and gravel 4) Sand and clay 28. Certiied seed is produced from a) Nucleus seed b) Breeder seed ©) Foundation seed 4) Truthful seed 28, Seediess banana is an @) Autotriptoid b) Autotetraploia ©) Allotripiois 4) Allotetrapiola 30. Which one of the following is used to test the goodness-of-fit of a distribution? a) Normal test © b) test ©) Chi-square test 1d) Petast PART ~ il (Subject Paper) Multiple choice questions (No. 31 to 95). Choose the correct answer (a, b, ¢ or d) and enter your choice in the circle (by shading with a pencil) on the OMR - answer sheet as per the instructions given on the answer sheet. 31, If and B are two independent events, then PUinB) is equal to a) P(A) P(E) ») 1-P(ava) 8) TPA) (PB) 6) Allihe above 32. If the letters of the word ‘UNIVERSITY’ are fangomly arranged, the probablity that the two I's do not come together is a) 116 ») 26 °) 35 a) 45 33. The probabiliy of intersection of two mutually exclusive events is always 8) Zero ) infinity ©) One 8) Dopends on individual probabilty of the events a) ») °) 4 IfAcB, the probability P(A| 8) is equal to 0 : E PIA) | Pe) 5 P(B) | P(A) eX and Y are two random variables, then (XY = £00) Ev) EQKYYD & ECV) (YY) 2 EX) ECV?) ELON s EO) EC) A random vatiable X takes only three values. <1, 0 and 1 such that P(X=0) Is. %4."Then EO?) is, % wt 7 4 % 1 AN approximate relation between mean deviation about mean and standard deviation ‘of a normal distribution is fe §MD.=48.D, 1 4MD.=580, 3MD.=38.D, 3MD =280, 3. IFX~B (np) then Yenexis Bn, p) Bin,i-p) Bin, p) Bean, 1-p) 1X, Xa, ses Xeo.be a fandom sample from Ns (i) then 20 (X-p)' 7 (Xp) will be x Xe GO). 82 nx" p x2(8),8= pd" IEX-N(q, 04), the maximum probability at the point of inflexion of normal distribution is ‘ fae Subject : PAD~ Ageteuttura) Statistics — 2011 41.Maximum — height of — the {distribution curve at the point =0 is 1 By, Ay 1 WT BUG) 1 Wi BR) a) JI BLK, 5) student's a) * ») 2 42, The relation between statistics t and y?is a) tf b) thee e) th a) 43. If the moment generating function of a distribution is (qspe')’, the variance of the distribution is a) 2n ») pq ©) pq ) agin 44, The moment generating function ofa random variable X is, ates tae oo * 5° The expected value of X is 5 a) 95 b) 146 °) 17/16 4) 22/18 45.1f X i a standard normal variate, then % X*is a gamma variate with parameters a) 1% » 44 KK 944 48, Staiified sampling is 2) Always, more efficient then simple random sampling b) At least equally efficient as simple random sampling ©) Less efficient than simple random sampling 4) Can be less, equally or more efficont than simple random samaling » 9 9) 48, a) ») ° ¢) 49, a) a) b) 2) a) difference between populations Minimizes the populations ls always a linear function of the components of the random vector under study None of the above: hy ! by tahyehy 2 yah Ohh 79. Atest cross is a) Always a backcross b) A backcross only when the parent is homozygous dominant ©) Across betwoen heterozygous ©) A cross between two individuals which are homozygous recessive Subject : PAD ~ Agricultural Statistics — 2011 80. In the case of tight linkage, which of the following is least efficient? @) Method of maximum likelihood b) Emerson's method ©) Product formula 4) Method ofthe linear function 81. The total number of Latin equares that can be obtained of order 3 are 18 b) 12 9 d) 3 82. Which of the following Is false regarding the information matrix (G) of a block design? a) Its row sum is always zero 'b) Its a non-singular matrix ©) One ofits eigen values is zero 4) Its column sum Is always zero 83. Let v, b, r, k, 2 be the parameters of a BIB design and T,, =1, ..., v be the effect of the Hh treatment. Let the three contrasts of treatment effects be defined as follows with varlances Vj, V2 and Vs, respectively: Tela Tet Te2Ty | Ty# T+ Ty3Ts qe: Wole of te fofowing i tue? 2) Vi>verve B viewievs 8 Wevisv, d) Vi=V2=Va 84, There are two bags. One bag contains 4 red and 5 black balls and the other contains 6 ‘ed and 4 black balis. One ball is to be drawn from elther of the two bags. The prebablity of drawing a black ball Is 1 b) 16/81 9 12 ) 1081 65. An um A contains 6 white and 3 black balls and B contains 4 white and 4 black balls, An um is selected and a bal is drawn from it, ‘the pfobabiity that the ball is white is a) 918 b) 96 : ©) 5182 ‘ 9) 56 86, The density function of the continuous random variable X is {(x)=1/2, -1

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