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TARGET : PRE-MEDICAL 2024 ENTHUSIAST COURSE
DOMESTICATION OF PLANT (PLANT BREEDING)
1. Green revolution means :- 7. In crop improvement programme haploids are of

(1) Increase in production of food plants great importance because they :-

(2) Increase in growth of green plants for (1) Are useful in studies on meiosis
maintaining ecosystem balance (2) Require only about half the amount of
(3) Growth of green plants in order to check soil chemical fertilizers as compare to diploids
erosion
(3) Give homozygous lines following diploidization
(4) Production of green algae
(4) Grow better under adverse conditions
2. The best way to increase the yield of crop :-
8. Pusa komal is a variety of _____ that is resistant
(1) To sow seed of high yielding and disease
to ____
resistant varieties.
(1) Wheat, hill bunt

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(2) By better management practice
(2) Brassica, white rust
(3) To increase acrage under cultivation
(3) Chilli, chilli mosaic virus
(4) To remove weeds from fields
(4) Cowpea, bacterial blight
3. Which of the following is not used for crop

improvement ? 9. In tissue culture roots can be induced by :-

(1) Siltation (1) Lower concentration of cytokinin and higher

(2) Introduction concentration of auxins

(3) Hybridization (2) Only cytokinin and no auxins
(4) Mutations (3) No cytokinin and only auxins
4. First step in plant breeding programmes is : (4) Higher concentration of cytokinin and lower
(1) Selection of superior recombinants concentration of auxins
(2) Cross hybridization of selected parents 10. Which character of cotton leads to non-attraction
(3) Germplasm collection
of boll worms ?
(4) Introduction of exotic species
(1) High aspartic acid
5. Semi-dwarf rice varieties were derived from :-
(2) Smooth leaves and necter less
(1) IR-8 and TN-1
(3) Low sugar content
(2) Jaya and Ratna
(4) Thick stem
(3) Sonalika and Kalyan sona
11. Which of the followng is used in tissue culture :-
(4) Both (1) and (2)
(1) Cow milk (2) Buffalow milk
6. Find the incorrect match :
(3) Goat milk (4) Coconut milk
Disease Pathogen
12. Parasexual hybridization means :-
(1) Black rot of crucifers Bacteria
(2) Tabacco mosaic Virus (1) Fusion of male gamete with female gamete

(3) Brown rust of wheat Algae (2) Fusion of male gamete with synergid nucleus

(4) Red rot of sugarcane Fungus (3) Fusion of somatic protoplast

(4) Fusion of male gamete with protoplasts

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ENTHUSIAST COURSE TARGET : PRE-MEDICAL 2024
13. It shows correct chronological order of the events 16. Which of the following term is not related to
occurring during callus culture :- tissue culture ?
(1) Callus → Cell division → Explant → Addition (1) Explant
of cytokinin → Acquire meristematic (2) Palindroma
property (3) Soma clones
(2) Explant → Callus → Cell division → Addition (4) Hybrid protoplast
of cytokinin → Cell acquire meristamatic 17. If wheat field is inoculated with Rhizobium :-
property (1) Soil will become nitrogen rich
(3) Explant → Cell division → Callus → Addition (2) No effect on soil nitrogen
of cytokinin → Cells acquire meristematic (3) Soil will be depleted of nitrogen
property (4) Soil will become rich in calcium
(4) Callus → Explant → Cell division → Addition 18. Organic farming does not include :-
of cytokinin → Cells acquire meristematic (1) Green manures

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property (2) Chemical fertilizer
14. In 2000, maize hybrids that had twice the (3) Crop rotation
amount of amino acids, ____ and ____ compared (4) Compost and farmyard manures
to existing maize hybrids were developed. This is 19. Which of the following species of sugarcane has
an example of _____ . thick stem and higher sugar content ?
(1) Lysin, argenine, biofortification (1) S. barberi
(2) Methionine, tryptophan, biolistic (2) S. munja
(3) Lysin, tryptophan, biofortification (3) S. durum
(4) Methionine, tryptophan, biofortification (4) S. officinarum
15. Large amout of protein can be produced in short 20. Two scientists responsible for contributing in
span of time due to high rate of biomass success of green revolution are :-
production by : (1) Connell and Robert May
(1) Methylophilus methylotrophus (2) Norman E. Borlaug and M.S. Swaminathan
(2) Propionibacterium sharmanic (3) Alec Jeffrey and M.S. Swaminathan
(3) Agrobacterium tumifaciens (4) Norman E. Borlaug and M.S. Subbalakshmi
(4) Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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