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1. _______estimated that incompatibility occurs in more than 3000 species among 20 families of the flowering plants:
D. De Winton
M.B. Hughes
W.H. Gabelman
E.M. East
2. _______provides the best documented example of long time effects of selection:
Sugarcane
Sweet sorghum
Sugarbeet
Sugar maple
3. ______ deteriorates drastically upon inbreeding:
Carrot
Okara
Brinjal
Broccoli
4. _____ in Ladino clover is governed by two dominant alleles one produces cyanogenic glycoside while the other releases the enzyme to catalyze its release from gloycoside:
Oxalic acid
IAA
HCN
NAA
5. ______ are examples of protandrous species:
Avocados
Walnuts
Carrots
None of these
6. Experiments in Plant Hybridization a paper of G. Mendal was first published in the year:
1905
1787
1866
1896
7. If a gene is represented in an infinitely large random-mating population by adaptively neutral alleles A and a in the ration of qA: (1-q)2 aa = 1 is known as:
Stanford-Suneson law
Weibe-Thomas law
Briggs-Harlan law
Hard-Weinberg law
8. 2n - 1 is a:
Monosomic
Transonic
Tetrasomic
Alloploid
9. 2n denotes:
Number of homozygote produces by selfing a F1
Number of types of gametes produced by F1
Number of types of heterozygote produced by selling F1
None of the above
10. A cell or an organism having one chromosome pair in addition to the normal somatic compliment of the species is:
Monosomic
Nullisomic
Tetrasomic
Trisomic
11. A character dermined by many genes and does not show discrete variation is known as:
Qualitative character
Oligogenic character
Quantitative character
Multiple-allelic character
12. A complex of communities of plants and animals of a region existing under identical climatic conditions is called as:
Biome
Ecosystem
Ecological complex
Environment
13. A condition in which pollination and fertilization take place in an unopened flower is termed as:
Homogamy
Apogamy
Polygamy
Cleistogamy
14. A criss-cross inheritance is shown by:
Sex-influenced character
Polygamy
Sex-linked character
Sex-quantitative character
15. A cybrid is:
A sex hybrid
A hybrid formed by cell fusion
A plant produced by cell culture
Synonym to hybrid
16. A dry one chambered and one seeded fruit developing from a superior ovary with the hard and woody pericarp is:
Achene
Caryopsis
Composite fruit
None of the above
17. A fruit which develops from an inflorescence is known as:
Simple fruit
Aggregate fruit
Composite fruit
None of these
18. A fruit which is collection of simple fruits developing from the apocarpous pistil of a flower is known as:
Multiple fruit
Aggregate fruit
Complex fruit
Simple fruit
19. A generative nucleus in the male gametophyte divides _____ to form two male gametes:
Mitotically
Meiotically
Mitotically and Meiotically
None of these
20. Zamikand and Taro (Colocasia) are example of:
Rhizome
Tuber
Bulb
Corm
21. A homozygous line developed by self-fertilization in a cross-pollinated crop is termed as:
Pureline
Inbred
Clone
Mutant
22. A hybrid is always:
Heterozygous
Homozygous
Both of the above
Often homozygous
23. A large unit of natural vegetation in an area under identical condition (climatic) is called:
Plant formation
Association
Community
Climax
24. A maintainer line is:
Male fertile and can restore fertility
Male sterile but can restore fertility
Male sterile but cannot restore fertility
Male fertile but cannot restore fertility
25. A male gametophyte in angiosperms contains:
One gametes only two male gametes only
Two male gamete only
Two male gametes and one tube nucleusnucleus
One male gamete and one tube nucleus
26. A male child would be born to parents if:
The father is healthier than the mother
The mother eats well during pregnancy
The genetic composition of the child includes XY combination of chromosomes
The genetic composition of the child includes XX combination of chromosomes
27. A mendelian population means:
Self-pollinated population
Inbred population
Random-mating population
Hybrid population
28. A method of breeding most commonly used when the desired variation is required to be induced in a vegetatively propagated crop is:
Polyploidy
Pedigree method of breeding
Mutation breeding
Backcross method of breeding
29. A plant breeder is interested to control pollination to:
Prevent cross-pollination
Control pollination
None of these
Both of these
30. A mixture of two immiscible liquids shaken up is:
Saturated solution
A suspension
An emulsion
Colloid
31. A plant bearing both male and female flowers is said to be:
Dioecious
Monoecious
Polygamous
None of above
32. A plant cell when put into a hypotonic solution it unlike animal cell does not brust because:
It has no semi-permeable membrane
It has inelastic cell wall
All both (a) & (b)
None of the above
33. A plant with 2n = 20 will have how many linkage group:
20
10
40
5
34. A plant with genotype Gg Ww will produce gametes of which of the following types?
GW gw gWGw
GGWWggww
GwGGGW
All of them
35. With the increase in temperature the solubility of solid in a liquid:
Increases
Decreases
Both (a) & (b)
None of the above
36. A restorer gene is present in:
Nucleus
Cytoplasm
Both (a) & (b)
None of these
37. A state of meiotic cell division when homologous chromosomes separate and move to different poles is known as:
Metaphase I
Anaphase I
Telophase I
Anaphase II
38. A successful establishment of vegetation in a new locality means:
Commensalisnt
Ecesis
Succession
Psammosere
39. With four bases A U G and C the possible number of triplet cordons are 64. If there is no uracil the number of codons will be:
3764
9764
27764
None of above
40. Wind pollination is also known as:
Anemophyly
Entomophyly
Zoophyly
Hydrophyly
41. Acclimatisation is:
A process of adjustment by crop plants to environment
Related with the clay
Removal of female parts of a flower
Changing of climatical condition
42. According to position of the ovule within the ovary an ovule may be:
Ascending
Pendulous
Suspended
All of the above
43. Actual petrified remains of ancient plants and animals or impressions left by them in rocks are called:
Fossils
Models
Traces
None of the above
44. Adjustment of individual to their environment by mean of special structures or of function of spoken of:
Mutation
Variation
Heredity
Adaptation
45. Adventitious roots grow from:
Radical
Plumule
Hypophysis
Any part of the plant body other than the radical
46. After the cell has undergone mitosis the amount of DNA in daughter cells will be:
Equal to the parent cell
Half of the parent cell
Double of the parent cell
None of the above
47. Albinism in plants is associated with:
Epistatis
Recessive lethal
Dominant lethal
Chromosome duplication
48. Alternative forms of a gene is known a:
Mutation
Gamete
Allele
Genotype
49. An anticodonis a sequence of three nitrogenous bases found on:
DNA
mRNA
rRNA
tRNA
50. An egg or sperm cell in plants is called:
Gene
Gamete
Zygote
None of them
51. An embryo sac of angiosperms generally contains:
Two nuclei
Three nuclei
Four nuclei
Eight nuclei
52. An endospermic cell of a seed after somatic chromosome number (2n = 20) will have:
30 Chromosomes
20 Chromosomes
10 Chromosomes
40 Chromosomes
53. An individual having different alleles for any gene pair and producting two kinds of gametes is known as:
Hemizygous
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Heterogenous
54. An association can be:
Hydrophytic
Halophytic
Xerophytic
All of the above
55. An organism having the gametic chromosome numbers is called as:
Genome
Hybrid
Gamete
Haploid
56. An organism with one extra chromosome (2n + 1) is instead of the normal diploid (2n) is known as:
Monoploid
Monosomic
Trisomic
Tetrasonic
57. Ascending portion of the axis of the plant developing directly from the plumule and bears leaves braches and flower is known as:
Root
Steam
Modified root
None of above
58. At the molecular level point mutations are due to:
Destruction of the bases
Destruction of the double helix
Shifting of a portion of the helix and bases
Alterations of sequences of base in DNA
59. At the stage incipient plasmolysis the turgor pressure is:
Zero
2 atm.
4 atm.
22.4 atm.
60. At the stage of fully turgid cell the suction pressure will be:
Equal to wall pressure
Zero
Equal to osmotic pressure
Maximum
61. ATP synthesis occurs in:
Chloroplast
Chloroplast and mitochondria
Chloroplast mitochomdria and muclei
Mitochondria
62. Bacteria protozoa and other living plants and animals are:
Climatic factors
Edaphic factors
Biotic factors
Topographic factors
63. Baldness in human being is a:
Sex linked character
Sex limited character
Sex-influenced character
None of the above
64. Barely is a ______ pollinated crop:
Often-cross
Self and cross
Cross
Self
65. Biffin in 1905 announced that resistance to yellow rust of wheat is governed by ______ gene in crosses:
Single dominant
Single recessive
Double dominant
Double recessive
66. Binomial system of Nomenclature means that the name of plant is made up of two words which designate:
Family and genus
Order and family
Species and family
Genus and species
67. Bread wheat is:
Haploid
Diploid
Tetraploid
Auto-allopolyploid
68. A head or capitulum s is characteristic of:
Compositeae
Umbelliferae
Solanaceae
Gramineae
69. Radish is an example of:
Fusiform root
Napiform root
Conical root
Tuberous root
70. Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection was given by:
Lamark
Linnaeus
Charles Darwin
Erasmus
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