Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Important MCQs

1 - ________ is merely a modification of the uniform system where large quantities of advance growth of various ages and size even up to trees of 40 cm diameter are retained as part of the future crop:






Coppice system

2 - 2n denotes:






Number of types of gametes produced by F1

3 - A cell or an organism having one chromosome pair in addition to the normal somatic compliment of the species is:






Tetrasomic

4 - A character dermined by many genes and does not show discrete variation is known as:






Qualitative character

5 - A complex of communities of plants and animals of a region existing under identical climatic conditions is called as:






Biome

6 - A condition in which pollination and fertilization take place in an unopened flower is termed as:






Cleistogamy

7 - A criss-cross inheritance is shown by:






Sex-linked character

8 - A cybrid is:






A hybrid formed by cell fusion

9 - A dry, one chambered and one seeded fruit developing from a superior ovary with the hard and woody pericarp is:






Composite fruit

10 - A fruit, which develops from an inflorescence, is known as:






Composite fruit

11 - A fruit, which is collection of simple fruits developing from the apocarpous pistil of a flower, is known as:






Aggregate fruit

12 - A generative nucleus in the male gametophyte divides _____ to form two male gametes:






Mitotically

13 - A head or capitulum's is characteristic of:






Compositeae

14 - A homozygous line developed by self-fertilization in a cross-pollinated crop is termed as:






Inbred

15 - A hybrid is always:






Heterozygous

16 - A large unit of natural vegetation in an area under identical condition (climatic) is called:






Plant formation

17 - A maintainer line is:






Male fertile but cannot restore fertility

18 - A male child would be born to parents if:






The genetic composition of the child includes XY combination of chromosomes

19 - A male gametophyte in angiosperms contains:






Two male gametes and one tube nucleusnucleus

20 - A mendelian population means:






Random-mating population

21 - A method of breeding most commonly used when the desired variation is required to be induced in a vegetatively propagated crop is:






Polyploidy

22 - A mixture of two immiscible liquids shaken up is:






An emulsion

23 - A plant bearing both male and female flowers is said to be:






Monoecious

24 - A plant breeder is interested to control pollination to:






Both of these

25 - A plant cell when put into a hypotonic solution, it unlike animal cell does not brust because:






It has inelastic cell wall

26 - A plant with 2n = 20 will have how many linkage group:






10

27 - A plant with genotype Gg Ww will produce gametes of which of the following types?






GW, gw, gW,Gw

28 - A restorer gene is present in:






Nucleus

29 - A state of meiotic cell division when homologous chromosomes separate and move to different poles is known as:






Anaphase I

30 - A successful establishment of vegetation in a new locality means:






Ecesis

31 - Acclimatisation is:






A process of adjustment by crop plants to environment

32 - According to position of the ovule within the ovary, an ovule may be:






All of the above

33 - Actual petrified remains of ancient plants and animals or impressions left by them in rocks are called:






Fossils

34 - Adjustment of individual to their environment by mean of special structures or of function of spoken of:






Adaptation

35 - Adventitious roots grow from:






Any part of the plant body other than the radical

36 - After the cell has undergone mitosis, the amount of DNA in daughter cells will be:






Equal to the parent cell

37 - Albinism in plants is associated with:






Recessive lethal

38 - Alternative forms of a gene is known a:






Allele

39 - An anticodonis a sequence of three nitrogenous bases found on:






tRNA

40 - An association can be:






All of the above

41 - An egg or sperm cell in plants is called:






Gamete

42 - An embryo sac of angiosperms generally contains:






Eight nuclei

43 - An endospermic cell of a seed after somatic chromosome number (2n = 20) will have:






30 Chromosomes

44 - An individual having different alleles for any gene pair and producting two kinds of gametes is known as:






Heterozygous

45 - An organism having the gametic chromosome numbers is called as:






Haploid

46 - An organism with one extra chromosome (2n + 1), is instead of the normal diploid (2n) is known as:






Trisomic

47 - Ascending portion of the axis of the plant, developing directly from the plumule and bears leaves, braches and flower is known as:






None of above

48 - At the molecular level point mutations are due to:






Alterations of sequences of base in DNA

49 - At the stage incipient plasmolysis the turgor pressure is:






Zero

50 - At the stage of fully turgid cell, the suction pressure will be:






Zero

51 - ATP synthesis occurs in:






Chloroplast and mitochondria

52 - Bacteria, protozoa and other living plants and animals are:






Biotic factors

53 - Baldness in human being is a:






Sex-influenced character

54 - Barely is a ______ pollinated crop:






Self

55 - Biffin in 1905 announced, that resistance to yellow rust of wheat is governed by ______ gene in crosses:






Single recessive

56 - Binomial system of Nomenclature means that the name of plant is made up of two words, which designate:






Genus and species

57 - Bread wheat is:






Auto-allopolyploid

58 - Bulk population breeding is suitable for:






Small grains

59 - Carolus Linnaeus is credited with introducing the:






Binomial system of nomenclature

60 - Cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, kohlrabi and brussels sprouts have been derived from wild cabbage that, still grows in coastal regions of:






Europe and N. Africa

61 - Characteristic feature of the hydrophytes is:






All the above

62 - Characteristic feature of xerophytes is:






All of the above

63 - Chauncey Goodrich was the first _____ to publish a paper dealing with resistance of potatoes to the blight diseases:






American

64 - China rose is a :






Shrub

65 - Chromosome numbers in somatic cells of a maize plant are:






20

66 - Chromosome which pair at meiotic prophase and are similar size, shape, structure and function are known as:






Homologous

67 - CIMMYT is located at:






Miexico

68 - Cliestogamy encourages:






Self pollination

69 - Clone in general is:






Heterozygous

70 - Commercial banana have ______ instead of 22 chromosomes of ordinary diploid varieties:






33

71 - Complementary gene produces phenotypic ratio:






9;7

72 - Composites are developed by using:






Advanced generation seed mixtures obtained from high yielding intervarietal or interracial crosses

73 - Conifers are abundant in:






Temperate zone

74 - Cotton:






Is an often-cross pollinated crop

75 - Creation of the world by God is basis of the:






Theory of special creation

76 - Cross between cytoplasmic male sterile x cytoplasmic male fertile:






Produce sterile F1

77 - Cross of F1 hybrid with either parent is called:






Test cross

78 - Crossing over occurs at:






Four strand stage

79 - Cuscuta is:






Total stem parasite

80 - Cytogenetically, the definitive nucleus is:






Diploid

81 - Dallus is:






An undifferentiated mass of cells

82 - Date palm is:






Dioecious

83 - Degenerated parts of plants and animals, which do not serve any useful purpose, are known as:






Vestigial structures

84 - Deodar normally found in:






In the Hills of Punjab

85 - Despite conspicuous deterioration of maize upon continuous setting, it is more tolerant to inbreeding than:






Alfalfa

86 - Details of the kreb's cycle were worked out by the use of:






Radioactive carbon compounds

87 - Development and formation of pollen grains in anther of the stamen is known as:






Microsporogenesis

88 - Development of a fruit without fertilization is known as:






Parthenogenesis

89 - Development of seed without-sexual process is:






Apomixes

90 - Development of the pollen tube, the seed and the 3n endosperm, double fertilization is characteristic features of:






Angiosperms

91 - Disease reaction is by and large, a process:






Chemical

92 - Disease rsistance in barley is:






Qualitative characteristics

93 - DNA exists as a double helix as a result of hydrogen bonding between:






Nucleohistones

94 - DNA polymerase:






Helps is DNA replication

95 - DPD is the index of sucking power and is also known as:






Suction pressure

96 - During mitotic cell division the total chromosome number:






Remains the same

97 - Each cell of the female gametophyte is hapoid except:






Definitive nucleus

98 - Each gramme of water transpired absorbs ______ kj of latent heat from the leaf and its environment:






3.4-3.5

99 - Each mature anther has:






Four pollen sacs

100 - Each megaspore mother cell finally produces:






Only one megaspore

101 - Each pollen mother cell produces four haploid cells as a result of:






Meiosis

102 - Each stamen is differentiated into:






All of the above

103 - Electron microscope was invented by:






Knoll and Ruska

104 - Emasculation is:






Removal of male parts from a bisexual flower

105 - Embryo-sac is:






Female gametophyte

106 - Endosperm is store house for germinating embryo and it contains:






All the above

107 - Epicalyx is the characteristic of the family:






Malvaceae

108 - Epistasis should be crefully distinguished from dominance, which refers to non-additivity of alleles at:






Different loci of a homologous chromosome

109 - Exchange of genetic material takes place between non-sister chromatids of homologous chromosomes during the:






Four stand stage in prophase I

110 - Female reproductive organ in the flower is:






Carpals

111 - Flower colour in plants is a:






Qualitative chracter

112 - Flower is specialized:






Leaf

113 - Flowers having both androecium's and gynoecium's are said to be:






Hermaphrodite

114 - For Hardy - Weinberg law to operate:






ll the above

115 - Formation of new genes takes place due to:






Mutation

116 - Fruit of candytuft is known as:






Silicula

117 - Fruit of pea is known as:






Legume

118 - Fruit of sunflower is:






Cypsela

119 - Fruits of calotropis are:






Follicle

120 - Fusion of the one sperm (male gamete) and definitive nucleus results in the formation of:






Endosperm

121 - Generally embryosac is:






Bisporic

122 - Genes are made up of:






DNA only

123 - Genetics is the study of:






Heredity and variation

124 - Genotype x Environment interaction would take place when there is/are:






Two genotypes and one environment

125 - Germplasm means:






A collection of genetic material

126 - Gibberellins are now commercially used into increase sugarcane growth and sugar yields :






Hawaii

127 - Ginger and Turmeric are example of modified stem:






Rhizome

128 - Given that the somatic cromosome number of Triticum aestivum is 2n = 6x = 42, which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?






Tetrasome

129 - Group of plants with similar characteristics of any rank is termed:






Taxon

130 - Gynoecium or pistil in the female whorl differentiated into:






All of the above

131 - Heritability may be defined as the:






Proportion of phenotypic variability, which is due to heredity

132 - Heterosis is commercially exploited in:






Cross pollinated species

133 - Heterosis over the better parent is called as:






Heterbeltiosis

134 - Holophytes growing on muddy swarmps form special vegetation known as:






Hangrove forests

135 - How many cells will be produced from a cell if the cell divides meiotically?






4

136 - Hugo de Vries, who defined the 'mutation', was:






Dutch Botanist

137 - Hybrid seeds can be produced through open pollination with the use of:






Inbreds

138 - Hydrilla is a:






Hydrophyte

139 - ICRISAT deals with:






Millets

140 - If a character is cytoplasmically controlled then:






The progeny resembles female parent

141 - If a dihybrid is test crossed, the phenotypic ratio of progeny will be:






1:1:1:1

142 - If a dihybrid without genic interaction is selfed the following ratio is obtained in F2:






9:3:3:1

143 - If a membrane allows the passage of both solvent and solute molecules it is said to be:






Permeable

144 - If dissolved sugar in pure water the resulting solution will have osmotic potential than that of pure water:






More negative

145 - If more solute is added to a saturated solution, it settles down but if heated the excess amount also gets dissolved. Such a solution said to be:






Super saturated

146 - If parents differ in ten gene pairs, no selection is done; six back crosses will produce a population having ______ per cent homozygous and identical individuals to recurrent parent at all ten loci:






85

147 - If the cells of a plant root tip contain chromosomes will be found in its pollen grains?






8

148 - If the particles of dispersed phase have an affinity towards the particles of the dispersion medium the colloidal system is known as:






Lyophilic

149 - In ______ , the first studies on artificial hybridization for which yields were reported were those of Beal during the period between 1877 and 1882:






Maize

150 - In ______, pollen dispersal is poor and seed set is likely to be low on male sterile plants:






Tomato

151 - In Angiosperms:






Sporophyte is complex and gametophyte incospicuous

152 - In asparagus one or more short, green cylindrical or sometimes flattened branches of limited growth develop from node of stem, such a branch is known as:






Cladode

153 - In bajra:






Cytoplasmic genetic male sterility is found

154 - In C4 pathway CO2 combines with:






Ribulose diphosphate

155 - In China rose flower is:






Hypogynous

156 - In compositeae the gynoecium is syncarpous bicarpellary with:






Free central placentation

157 - In cotton, the popularly grown commercial hybrid varalaxmi's is the product of:






Interspecific hybridization between Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense

158 - In cruciferae the stamens are said to be:






Tetradidynamous

159 - In famtly malvaceae the stamens are:






Monoadelphous

160 - In Ficus (banyan, pepal, fig) the inflorescence is:






Hypanthodium

161 - In mass selection, plants are selected on the basis of:






Phenotypes

162 - In pedigree breeding single plants are selected in which one of the following generation:






F2

163 - In potato the inflorescence is:






Helicoid

164 - In Primula sp:






Heteromorphic incompatibility found

165 - In RNA, nitrogen bases are same as in DNA except:






Uracil instead of Thymlnine

166 - In self-incompatibility system:






Pollen does not germinate on self-pollination

167 - In solanaceae, the flowers are:






Actinomorphic, bisexual and hypogynous

168 - In sorghum somatic chromosome number is 20. What would be its chromosome number in the endosperm?






30

169 - In sweet pea gene C or P alone produces white flower, where as both C and P are needed to produce purple coloured flower. In a particular cross between two white flowered plants the offsprings were one half purple and one-half white. The possible genotype






ccPp x CCpp

170 - In the cymose inflorescence the flowers develop in:






Basipetal succession

171 - In the flowering plants the process of fertilization is first discovered by:






Strasburger

172 - In the ovary of 'marigold' the placentation is:






Basal

173 - In the pitcher plant, the pitcher is modification of:






Leaf

174 - In the simple ovary (of one carpel) there is one common type of placentation known as:






Marginal

175 - In wheat and oat there are _____ genes for red versus white kernels:






Three

176 - In wheat, cross-pollination is:






Less than 5%

177 - In which one of the following crops maximum exploitation of hybrid vigour during the last three decades has been done?






Maize

178 - In which part of the cell, does protein synthesis take place?






Ribosomes

179 - Inflorescence of wheat ear is:






Spike

180 - International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is situated in:






Philippines

181 - It has been estimated that a miize tassel produces at least _____ pollen grains for each kernel.






25000

182 - It is an established fact that higher and more complex forms of plants and animals have evolved from:






Earlier and simple forms

183 - Johansen proposed:






Pure line theory

184 - Kreb's cycle begins with:






Acetyl COA

185 - Later formed rocks show fossils of:






Simpler and more recent types

186 - Leaf of the Mimosa is:






Bipinnate

187 - Magnification of an object by electron microscope is:






More than 2,00,000 X

188 - Maize is:






Maonecious plant

189 - Male gamete carries ______ chromosome numbers:






Non-permeable

190 - Mango fruit is a:






Drupe

191 - Mangrove plants show adaptation like:






All of the above

192 - Mating between two individuals related by descent is:






Inbreeding

193 - Megaspore mother cell produces four megaspores out of which usually:






Only one megaspore is functional and the remaining three megaspores abort

194 - Meiosis is essential for the organism for:






Keeping the number of chromosomes constant from one generation to the other

195 - Meiosis occurs in:






Generative cells

196 - Mendel is famous for:






Propounding the laws of inheritance

197 - Mendok is a gametocide used for inducing male sterility in:






Maize

198 - Method of breeding can be used for studying the ancestral characteristic:






Pedigree method

199 - Microsporogenesis occurs in:






Anthers

200 - Microsporogenesis occurs in:






Stamens

201 - Modern population genetics is found on a proposition dedeced independently by Hardy in England in 1908 and _____ in Germany n 1909.






Weinberg

202 - Monoploid is also a:






Haploid

203 - Most of the mutation have effect:






Deleterious

204 - Multiline varieties are mixtures of:






Several similar pure lines having different genes for disease resistance

205 - Mutation is known to be due to change in genes:






All the above

206 - Neither beginning nor end to the universe is basis of:






Theory of eternity of present condition

207 - Nilsson-Ehle of ______ was apparently the first to use the bulk population method to breed superior crop varieties:






Sweden

208 - Normal female in human being is:






Homogametic sex

209 - Nucleus seed is:






100% pure

210 - Number of chromosome in endosperm is:






3n

211 - Nutritional improvement for the tryptophan content has been achieved in a _____ cell-line:






Tobacco

212 - Oat is said to be:






Self pollinated crop

213 - Observation of Hugo de Vries were based on:






Oenothera lamarkiana

214 - Onion and Garlic are example of:






Bulb

215 - Operon concept was given by:






Jacob and Manod

216 - Orange or lemon fruit is known as:






Hesperidium

217 - Osmotic pressure of cells sap is high among below given categories in:






Halophyte

218 - Osra belongs to the family:






Malvaceae

219 - Oxisomes in plant cells are concerned with:






Kreb's cycle

220 - Para-mutation in _____ is perhaps the one and only example of blending of alleles:






Maize

221 - Pea has stamens:






Diadelphous

222 - Persons with the following blood group are universal donor:






O

223 - Phylloclade is:






Aerial modification of stem

224 - Physical and chemical properties of soil its water and air contents are included in:






Edaphic factors

225 - Physiologically dry soil is:






with saline water

226 - Pigment, which is responsible for skin colour, is:






Melanin

227 - Pink (NN) flowered plants crossed with blue (nn) flowered plants gave black (Nn) flowered plants in F1 generation. If F1 plants dre selfed, which of the following will be the phenotype of F2 progeny?






1/4 pink, 1/2 black, 1/4 blue

228 - Plants that attach themselves to any neighbouring object often by means of some special devices and climb it are called:






Climbers

229 - Plants that grow under average condition of temperature and moisture are:






Mesophytes

230 - Plants that grown upon other plants but do not absorb food from them are called:






Epiphytes

231 - Plants, which feed upon insects and small animald absorbing only nitrogenous compounds, are called:






Carnivorous

232 - Plasmid can:






Can do all the above

233 - Pneumatophores or respiratory roots are meant for:






Respiration

234 - Pointed gourd is a :






Dioecious plant

235 - Pollination taking place between the flowers borne by the same parent is called:






Geitonogamy

236 - Pollination taking place between two flowers (bisexual or unisexual) borne by two separate plants of the same species is called:






Cross pollination

237 - Polygenes affecting the same trait, with each enhancing the phenotype are termed as:






Additive factors

238 - Population improvement is used:






To accumulate favourable alleles

239 - Pototo and Jerusalem artichoke are example of:






Tuber

240 - Probably the most useful measurable property in the soil -plant-air system is:






Water Potential

241 - Progeny of a hybrid plant:






Segregation

242 - Prop or still roots are found in:






Banyan tree

243 - Protoplasm is a:






Polyphonic colloidal system

244 - Pseudo-fertility may also occur late in the season as in:






Tobacco

245 - Pure line is:






The progeny of selfed homozygous plant

246 - Pureline selection is:






Used to improve self-pollinated crops

247 - Quarantine is:






The process of observation of alien material

248 - Rainfall, temperature, light, wind and humidity are:






Climatic factors

249 - Random assortment of genes will occur if the gene are located on:






Different chromosomes

250 - Recessive lethal genes are carried in the:






Hetrozygous form

251 - Recurrent selection is mostly used in:






Cross pollinated crops

252 - Reduction Division in micro-sporogenesis occurs when:






Pollen mother cells are produced from & porocytes

253 - Registered seed is directly produced from:






Foundation seed

254 - Replacement of purine by pyrimidine and vice-versa is known as:






Transversion

255 - Restorer gene is needed:






To bring fertility in male sterile plants

256 - Rice varieties IR 20, IR 26 and IR 36 have shown better resistance to:






Brown plant hopper

257 - Root bear:






Unicelluar hairs

258 - Root has:






All of the above

259 - Secondary nucleus in the embryosac is:






Diploid

260 - Seeds of monocotyledons are:






Albuminous or non-endospermic

261 - Seeds of pea, gram and beans are:






Ex-albuminous

262 - Selfing of a plant increases:






Homozygosity

263 - Sex in Drosophila is governed by the following mechanism:






X autosomes ratio

264 - Single gene affecting more than one character is:






Pleiotropy

265 - Specific combining ability of the parents should be high in order to develop:






Hybrids

266 - Spikelets are characteristic of the family:






Gramineae

267 - Sporogenesis means:






Development and formation of spores

268 - Stems often bear:






Multicellular hairs

269 - Sterility incompatibility of distant crosses can e overcome to produce hybrids by:






Embryo culture

270 - Sterility is most pronounced in the F1 generation following:






Interspecific hybridization

271 - Stilt roots are produced from:






Stem and branches

272 - Sudden and sharp change in individual and is directly inherited by the offspring is called:






Mutation

273 - Sunflower is:






Annual herb

274 - Superiority of heterozygote leads to:






Fixation of recessive allele

275 - System of classification proposed by Hutchinson is:






Phylogenetic

276 - Tetraploid potato has 48 chromosomes, whereas ordinary piploid species have _______ chromosomes:






24

277 - The application of principles of genetics for the improvement of mankind is:






Eugenics

278 - The attraction between two dissimilar molecules is:






Adhesion

279 - The basis on which evolution works is:






Variations

280 - The best method to break the unfavourable linkage is:






Diallel selective mating

281 - The best method to carry forward the maximum number of genotypes/genes to the advanced generations against the force of natural selection is:






Single seed descent method

282 - The best-known artificial system of classification is that promulgated by:






Linnaeus

283 - The botanical name of the onion is:






Allum cepa

284 - The branch of genetics concerned with the study of frequencies of mating populations is:






Population genetics

285 - The cell sap of cell A has an osmotic potential of -14 bars and turgor pressure of 4 bars. Cell B has a water potential of -16 bars and osmotic potential of -24 bars. The water movement will be:






From A to B

286 - The characteristics of the original group system was the undulating profile of the regenerated corp obtained by reason of the considerable variation in age between the groups of regeneration:






Gayer's line

287 - The chromosomal aberrations include:






All of these

288 - The chromosomes are attached to the spindle fibre by means of:






Centromere

289 - The commonest form of the ovule is:






Anatropous

290 - The components of synthetic population would have already been tested for:






CGA

291 - The condition in which the anthers and stigmas of a bisexual flower mature at the same time is known as:






Homogamy

292 - The condition in which the pollen of a flower has no fertilizing effect on the stigma of the same flower is called:






Self-sterility

293 - The definitive nucleus on fertilization gives:






Oospore

294 - The diffusion of water through a differentially permeable membrane is called:






Osmosis

295 - The DNA is made up of the following four bases:






A.T.G.C.

296 - The edible part of the apple is:






Fleshy thalamus

297 - The effect of the genotype of the pollen grain on the phenotype of the seed is termed as:






Xenia

298 - The embroid (formed by vegetative cell) develops into a plant, which, in fact, grows out of anther as in:






Tobacco

299 - The evolutionary history of a species is referred as:






Phylogeny

300 - The factor that determine the movement of solutes through a membrane is:






All the above

301 - The fibrous fruit of coconut is dispersed by:






Water Potential

302 - The first easily observed sign of a water deficit in a plant is decrease in the tugor of its:






Leaf cells

303 - The first generation progeny of a hybrid are called:






Segregates

304 - The first inbreeding experiments with maize were those reported by:






Darwin in 1876

305 - The flattened, lateral, outgrowth of the stem or the branch, developing exogenously from a node and having a bud in its axil as known as:






Leaf

306 - The fleshy edible part of the mango fruit is:






Mesocarp

307 - The fleshy food storage tissue, lying immediately with in perisperm is called:






Endosperm

308 - The following character in human beings can explain the sex linked inheritance:






Haemophilia

309 - The following organelles also contain DNA:






Chloroplast

310 - The following part of the chromosome is responsible for the movement of chromosome/chromatid to different poles:






Centromere

311 - The fruit of Acacia is:






Lomentum

312 - The fruit of cumin or coriander is known as:






Cremocarp

313 - The fruits of cucurbitaceae is:






Pepo

314 - The fusion of a male gamete with two polar nuclei is often termed:






Triple fusion

315 - The genes that intensify or diminish the effect of major genes are known as factors:






Modifying

316 - The green expanded part of leaf is called as:






Leaf blade or lamina

317 - The group of plants, which bear flowers and seeds, are known as:






Phanerogams

318 - The haploid phase in plants is called :






Gametophyte

319 - The hydrophytes float on water because of the presence of:






Aerenchyma

320 - The inflorescence of banana is known as:






Spadix

321 - The initial gene pool of a synthetic population is composed of:






Inbred lines

322 - The initial pool of a composite population is composed of:






Inbred lines

323 - The jointed stem with solid nodes and hollow internodes is called:






Culm

324 - The life first originated in:






Water

325 - The life-cycle of an angiosperm is consist of:






Both stages

326 - The main body of ovule is called:






Nucellus

327 - The main patterns concerning origin and domestication of cultivated plant species are:






All of these

328 - The main reason for the classification of plants is:






The difficulties arising in the study of plants because of their large number

329 - The main type of endosperm development is:






Both (a) & (b)

330 - The majority of halophytes show:






Xeromorphic caracter

331 - The male sterile line is a cross to produce hybrid seed is known as:






A line

332 - The mechanism of male sterility in self-pollinated crops can be successfully utilised to obtain:






Hybrid seed without emasculation

333 - The mendel's laws of inheritance were rediscovered in 1900 by:






Correns, de Varies and Tschermak

334 - The minute scaly outgrowths borne at the upper end of the leaf sheath, as in Gramineae are called:






Ligule

335 - The mode of arrangement of ovules in the cavity of ovary is known as:






Placenatation

336 - The necleus of the functional megaspore divides:






Mitotically

337 - The net movement of a substance from an area of its own high concentration into another area of lesser concentration as rsult of kinetic energy of molecules is called:






Diffusion

338 - The normal eye colour in Drosphila is red. But mutants occur having white eye and also different shades ranging between white and red which are all recessive to red, while white colour is recessive to all others. This phenomenon is due to:






Pseudodominance

339 - The nucleus of the cell was first discovered by:






Robert Brown

340 - The number of chromosome in common wheat is:






42

341 - The number of stamens is indefinite in:






Malvaceae

342 - The nutritive tissue, which is infact, a remnant of the nucleus to called:






Perisperm

343 - The only force responsible for the movement of water through a membrane is:






All the above

344 - The ovary of family liliaceae is:






Trilocular superior with axile placentation

345 - The particles of hemicolloides have size (diameter) round about:






1 mu

346 - The phenomenon is called misogamy, when the tube enters into the embryo sac through:






Integuments

347 - The physical basis of heredity is termed as:






Gene pool

348 - The place on the stem or branch where one or more leaves arise is known as:






Node

349 - The placentation is mustard is:






Parietal

350 - The plant that grow in very dry places and can withstand a prolonged period of drought uninjured are:






Xerophytes

351 - The plant, which is growing in saline soils or saline water with preponderance of soil in it, is said:






Halophytes

352 - The plants, which grow in water deserts, are called:






Xerophytes

353 - The plants, which grow in water or in very wet places, are






Hydrophytes

354 - The plants, which occur in moist shady places in forests or in the moist soil near waterlogged localities are:






Hydrophyte

355 - The plasma membrane is:






Semi-permeable

356 - The point of attachment of the body of the ovule is its funicle is known as:






Hilum

357 - The pollen along with pollen tube is known as:






Male gametophyte

358 - The pressure responsible for pushing the membrane against the cell wall is termed as:






Turgor pressure

359 - The process of formation of eggs in animals is called:






Oogenesis

360 - The process of formation of sperms in animals is known as:






Spermatogenesis

361 - The process of guttation is due to:






Root Pressure

362 - The process of making the expression of a non-allelic gene by another gene or gene pair is known as:






Epistasis

363 - The process of megasporogenesis occurs in:






Ovule

364 - The process, double fertilization was first discovered by:






Nawaschin

365 - The production of double cross hybrid in maize was first suggested by:






Sporogenesis

366 - The production of double cross hybrid in maize was first suggested by:






Jones

367 - The production of sperms is known as:






Microgametogenesis

368 - The proportion of one allele as represented in a breeding population is known as:






Gene frequency

369 - The provision of light of shorten wavelength at the same time as longer red wavellength _______ photosynthesis:






Enhances

370 - The raw materials required for photosynthesis in vascular plants are:






CO2, water, mineral salts and chlorophyll

371 - The removal of apical buds and young leaves ______ branching.






Increases

372 - The replication of DNA is:






Semi-conservative

373 - The science dealing with variation and heredity is called:






Genetics

374 - The science, which deals with the study of interrelationship between the living organisms and the various factors of the environment surrounding them as:






Ecology

375 - The scientific name of bread wheat is:






T. aestivum

376 - The scientific name of maize is:






Zea mays

377 - The seeded fruit of rice or maize grain is called:






Caryopsis

378 - The segregation of individuals in the F2 or in a later generation of a cross, which shows a more extreme development of a character than either parent is termed as:






Transgressive segregates

379 - The series of changes in the vegetation of a pond, lake, marsh or a stream are together known as:






Hydrosere

380 - The series of changes in the vegetation of bare rocky beds, rocky hill slopes sand beds into, extreme scarcity of water are together known as:






Xerosere

381 - The situation where an egg cell is developed into an embryo' without fertilization, is described as:






Parthenogenesis

382 - The slender stalk by which ovule is attached to the placenta is known as:






Funicle

383 - The stage of prophase occur in:






Meiosis

384 - The staminate ______ plants out yield pistillate plants by about 25 per cent.






Asparagus

385 - The structure of chromosome can best be observed during:






Metaphase

386 - The study of ecology from the standpoint of individual species is called:






Autecology

387 - The sugar found in DNA is:






Deoxyribose

388 - The surface tension in any liquid is ______ related to the temperature:






Universally

389 - The tap root system is normally meant to:






All of the above

390 - The term epistasis was originally used by _____ in 1909 to describe genes whose effects mark or cover the effects of other genes:






Bateson

391 - The term genetics was coined by:






Bateson

392 - The term heterosis was first used by:






Shull

393 - The term used in sugarcane breeding to denote the crossing of Sacharum officinarum with related species followed by one or more back crosses is called:






Nobilisation

394 - The theory explaining the cause of variation and evolution, (Continuity of Gemplasm) was put forward by:






Weismann

395 - The theory of catastrophism was introduced by:






Cuvier

396 - The theory of genes in the chromosomes was introduced by:






Morgan

397 - The theory of 'Natural Selection' was put forward in:






1859

398 - The topographic factors include:






All the above

399 - The total volume of water on melting:






Increases

400 - The transference of pollengrain from the anther of a flower to the stigma of the same flower is known as:






Self-polliniltion

401 - The transference of pollengrains from the anther to the stigma is called:






Pollination

402 - The usefulness of cortisome for medicinal purposes led to the identification of _____ a potentially rich source of it:






Discorea

403 - The various modes in which the leaves are arranged on the stem or the branch, the term is called:






Phyllotaxy

404 - The water potential of pure water is equal to:






Zero

405 - Theory of 'Acquired characters' was proposed by:






Lamark

406 - Theory of Natural Selection was based on:






All the above

407 - Theory of overdominance states:






Hetrozygote is superior to both the homozygote

408 - Theory of 'Pangenesis' was given by:






Charles Darwin

409 - There are four stage of development of Genetics upto 20th century. The correct order of their occurrence is:






Lamarckism, Weismannism, Darwinism, Mendelism

410 - Thick and woody perennial climbers, met within forests, twine round tall trees and at their tops produce a canopy of foliage are:






Lianes

411 - Thomas Andrew Knight first noted differences among wheat varieties in their resistance to:






Rust

412 - To produce hybrid seed we need:






A male sterile line, restorer, maintainer

413 - Tomato fruit is a:






Berry

414 - Transfer of resistance gene to high yielding self-pollinated varieties is achieved by:






Recurrent backcrossing and selection

415 - Transmission of a gene in Bacterio-phase is known as:






Transduction

416 - Transmission of characteristics and qualities of parents of their offspring is known as:






Heredity

417 - Triticale is a cross between:






Wheat & rye

418 - tropical Evergreen or Rain Forests occur in areas with annual rainfall:






Exceeding 2,000 mm

419 - Umbel inflorescence is characteristic of the family:






Coriander family

420 - Unisexual flowers bear:






Either stamens or carpals

421 - Veticillaster inflorescence is characteristic of family:






Habiateae

422 - Vilmorin Principle of progeny testing stimulated _____ to devise Ear-to-Row Method of maize breeding in 1886:






C.G.Hopkins

423 - Vivipary means:






Seed germinates inside the fruit while it is still on the parent tree

424 - Water potential concept was formulated by:






Otto Renner, 1915

425 - Wheat crop is:






Self pollinated

426 - When a cluster of leaves arises from the short underground item as in pineapple, such leaves are said to be:






Radical

427 - When a formation is dominated by one or more species which are abundant in it, is said to be:






Climax

428 - When a group of phenotypically similar appearing plant is selected and harvested and their seeds are bulked, the process is known as:






Mass selection

429 - When a plant heterozygous for two given characters Tt Rr, both of them are completely dominant, is self-pollinated, the resulting progeny will consist of:






Four phenotypes

430 - When an F1 is crossed with the recessive homozygote parent the cross is known as:






Test cross

431 - When an individual is having both the alleles of contrasting characters, it is said to be:






Heterozygous

432 - When biological processes are made to occur outside the organism in test tube or vessel it is known as:






In vitro

433 - When breaks occur in two chromosomes simultaneously in a nucleus and the broken chromosomes rejoin in a new manner, it results in:






Translocation

434 - When homologous chromosomes fail to pair in prophase of meiosis, the phenomenon is known as:






Asynapsis

435 - When leaf fall of soon after it appears, then it is said to be:






Caduceus

436 - When only one fruit develops from the single ovary of a flower it is said to be a:






Simple fruit

437 - When stamens are united with the carpals, stamens are said to be:






Gynandrous

438 - When the anthers are united into a bundle or tube but the filaments are free, the stamens are said to be:






Syngenesious

439 - When the flower can be divided in two equal halves by any plane, it is called:






Actinomorphic

440 - When the leaf is flat, with the blade placed horizontally showing a distinct upper surface and a lower surface, as in most dicotyledonous, it is said to be:






Dorsoventral leaf

441 - When the leaf is kidney shaped it is known as:






Reniform

442 - When the leaf surface is smooth and free from hairs or outgrowth of any kind, it is said to be:






Glabrous

443 - When the lobes of the base of the leaf partially enclose stem, the leaf is said to be:






Auriculate

444 - When the male gametes are shed into embryo sac through microphyle, is called:






Porogamy

445 - When the ovary is one chambered and the placentae bearing the ovules develop on the inner wall of the ovary, then the placentation is known as:






Parietal

446 - When the ovule bends along the funicle that the microphyle lays close to the hilum, the ovule is said to be:






Anatropous

447 - When the ovule is bent round like a horseshoe it is said to be:






Amphilotropous

448 - When the pistil has all the carpals united together it is said to be:






Syncarpous

449 - When the stamens are united throughout their whole length by both the filaments and the anthers, they are said to be:






Synadrous stamens

450 - When two alleles of a gene are identical, the plant is said to be:






Homozygous

451 - When two genes show independent segregation, a genotype AaBb will produce ______ types of gametes:






4

452 - When two organisms live together for mutual help to each other are called:






Symbionts

453 - When we place a living plant cell in a solution with an osmotic potential identical to that of its own cell sap the solution is:






Isotonic

454 - Which is a common method used in cross-pollinated crops?






Pedigree method

455 - Which is the dioecious plant?






Vallisneria

456 - Which is the monoecious plant?






Maize

457 - Which of the following breeding procedures are not used for producing new varieties of self-pollined crop?






Mass selection

458 - Which of the following ions is involved in the opening and closing of stomata?






K+

459 - Which of the following is not xerophytic plant?






Mango

460 - Which of the following is ploidy level of common wheat?






Hexaploid

461 - Which of the following is sub-aerial modification of stem?






Stolon

462 - Which of the following leads to the cross-pollination?






All the above

463 - Which of the following material makes the protein chain?






Aminoacids

464 - Which of the following scientists is called the father of genetics?






Gregor Mendel

465 - Which of the following type(s) of male sterility is/are used in commercial seed production of double cross hybrid maize?






Cytoplasmic and genetic with restors

466 - Which of the fruit is capsule?






Cotton

467 - Which one f the following is not dioecious plant?






Maize

468 - Which one of the following categories of seeds is the farmer expected to buy afresh every time?






Hybrid

469 - Which one of the following chemicals is used to induce polyploidy?






Colchicines

470 - Which one of the following is the site of protein synthesis?






Ribosomes

471 - Which sterility is exploited in hybrid seed production?






Cytoplasmic genetic male sterility is found

472 - Who established that character is transmitted from generation to generation through chromosomes?






Strasburger and Hertwig

473 - Who founded the cell theory?






Schwann and Schleiden

474 - Who invented first compound microscope?






Jansen

475 - Who is credited with the discovery of mitosis?






Flemming

476 - Who is regarded as the father of botany?






Theofrastus

477 - Who suggested the imbiitions theory of ascent of sap?






Sachs

478 - Wind pollination is also known as:






Anemophyly

479 - With the increase in temperature, the solubility of solid in a liquid:






Increases

480 - Zamikand and Taro (Colocasia) are example of:






Corm

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