Genetic Conservation MCQs:
Ques. Which one will be searched for obtaining maximum genetic diversity?
(a) Recent varieties
(b) Old varieties
(c) Wild relatives
(d) All these
Ques. Producing new plants by cells instead of seeds is
(a) Tissue culture
(b) Biofertilizer
(c) Amphimixis
(d) meromixis
Ques. Gene banks comprise
(a) Seed banks, orchards, tissue culture and cryopreservation
(b) Seed banks, tissue culture and cryopreservation
(c) Seed banks and cryopreservation
(d) Tissue culture and cryopreservation
Ques. Which of the following countries is the centre of origin of Rice?
(a) Japan
(b) Ukraine
(c) India
(d) Russia
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Ques. Genetic erosion is due to
(a) Deforestation
(b) Shifting cultivation
(c) Adoption of genetically uniform varieties
(d) All these
Ques. Triticale is a man-made cereal which has been developed through hybridization between
(a) Wheat and Gram
(b) Wheat and Rye
(c) Wheat and Oat
(d) Wheat and Rice
Ques. In a gene bank, genetic material is stored as
(a) Genes
(b) Seeds
(c) Vegetative material/tissue culture
(d) seeds and tissue culture both
Ques. An orthodox seed is one which can
(a) Tolerate dehydration and low temperature
(b) Tolerate low temperature but not dehydration
(c) Tolerate dehydration but not low temperature
(d) None of these
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Ques. A living fossil is
(a) Gnetum
(b) Ginkgo
(c) Riccia
(d) Pinus
Ques. The three topmost major crops of the world in the order of total production are
(a) Wheat > Rice > Maize
(b) Rice > Wheat > Maize
(c) Wheat > Maize > Rice
(d) Rice > Maize >Wheat
Ques. The potential source of natural rubber is
(a) Ficus benghalensis (Banyan)
(b) Ficus elastica (Rubber plant)
(c) Parthenium argentatum (Guayule)
(d) All of these
Ques. Preserving germplasm in frozen state is
(a) Cryopreservation
(b) Cold storage
(c) In situ preservation
(d) Vernalisation
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Ques. Maximum genetic diversity of crop plants occurs where agriculture is
(a) Run on commercial lines
(b) Advanced
(c) Rainfed
(d) Primitive
Ques. Cola, the common beverage, is obtained from
(a) Flowers
(b) Stems
(c) Seeds
(d) Leaves
Ques. Tomato and Potato belong to
(a) North America
(b) South America
(c) South Asia
(d) Ethiopia
Ques. Who is called the Father of Cloning?
(a) Susan B. Anthony
(b) Ian Wilmut
(c) Louis Daguerre
(d) Charles Darwin
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Ques. Virus free clones are obtained from
(a) Callus
(b) Embryoids
(c) Haploid culture
(d) Shoot tip culture
Ques. Who is considered the father of genetics?
(a) Francis Bacon
(b) Gregor Mendel
(c) Voltaire
(d) Immanuel Kant
Ques. Sum total of all the genetic information in the breeding members of a population at a time is known as
(a) Gene pool
(b) Genome
(c) Gene frequency
(d) Genetic drift
