CENTUM COACHING CENTER CHERPULASSERY

Time: 45 Mins XII- BOTANY Mars: 20

(STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCEMENT FOR FOOD PRODUCTION)

1. Tissue culture is a fast and efficient system for crop improvement. Scientists in a
research institution want to produce a hybrid of potato and tomato. Is it possible to make
such a hybrid? If possible, explain how? (2)

2. Ram Singh is a conventional wheat breeder, One the promising wheat varieties is found
to be susceptible to leaf rust. What breeding steps he will adopt to make his original
promising variety resistant to leaf rust? (2)

3. The practice of maintenance of honeybees for the production is called _______ (1)

4. Out crossing and cross breeding are two different aspects of out breeding in animals.
How out crossing is different from cross breeding? (2)

5. Plant breeders mostly use apical buds as explants in rapid propagation of sugarcane and
banana. Write its significance. (2)

6. When the farmer cultivated Bananas in his field, most of the banana plants were
infected by virus. Can you suggest any method for the propagation of healthy virus free
banana plants? (2)

7. Match the following column A column B (2)

A B

1. Inbreeding a) Cross between two different related species

2. Interspecific b) Mating of animals within the same breed but

hybridization having no common ancestors

c) Superior males of one breed are mated with

3. Outcrossing
superior females of another breed

4. Crossbreeding d) Breeding between the animals of same breed

8. Find out what the various components of the medium used for propagation of an
explant in vitro are? (3)

9. If your family owned a dairy farm. What measures would you undertake to improve the
quality and quantity of milk production? (4)