DAILY PRACTICE SHEET – 308

BIOMENTORS CLASSES ONLINE (MUMBAI)

STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCEMENT IN FOOD PRODUCTION
Enhancement in Food Production 09/03/2019

1. Which of the following methods is/are used in recovery of healthy plants from diseased plants?
(a) Embryo culture
(b) Meristem culture
(c) Suspension culture
(d) Anther culture
2. A breed of cow is mated with closely related breed for five generations. It was found that production of milk has
reduced subsequently and the animals are not keeping good health. Which of following methods of animal
breeding can overcome this problem?
(a) Hybridization
(b) Controlled breeding
(c) Outcrossing
(d) Cross breeding
3. The colour of high yielding Mexican wheats were not liked the Indians. It was originally red grained. Their
cultivation was adopted in India on large scale only when exposure to gamma radiations converted them to
amber grained. Which of following methods of plant-breeding has been put into practise in the given case?
(a) Polyploid breeding
(b) Interspecific hybridization
(c) Genetic engineering
(d) Mutation breeding
4. Which of the following is the conventional method of plant breeding for disease resistance?
(a) Polyploidy
(b) Genetic engineering
(c) Hybridization
(d) Mutation breeding
5. Which of the following is/are the advantage(s) of micropropagation?
(a) It helps in rapid multiplication of plants
(b) It helps in production of somaclones
(c) It is an easy, safe and economical method for plant propagation
(d) All of the above

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6. Multiple ovulation embryo transfer technology (MOET) induces which of the following in cow?
(a) Super ovulation
(b) Follicular maturation in ovary
(c) Delayed Ovulation
(d) Both a and b
7. Improved varieties of wheat suitable for Indian climate have been developed by
(a) Hybridization and mutation
(b) Mutation and cloning
(c) Cloning and polyploidy
(d) Polyploidy and hybridization.
8. Improved rice variety IR-8 has been introduced in India from
(a) Taiwan
(b) Japan
(c) Philippines
(d) Bangladesh
9. Maximum genetic variation can be created through
(a) Introduction, hybridization
(b) Introduction, hybridization, selection
(c) Mutation, hybridization, introduction and genetic engineering
(d) Selection, introduction and mutation
10. MOET is a programme that is used to increase
(a) Herd size
(b) Biomass
(c) Disease resistance
(d) Yield
11. The semi dwarf wheat which was instrumental in increasing wheat production was developed by
(a) Alexander von Humboldt
(b) Paul Ehrlich
(c) Edward Jenner
(d) Norman E. Borlaug
12. The plant part which is used to culture is called
(a) Explant
(b) Endplant
(c) Transplant
(d) Callus
13. Germplasm also preserve rare genotype for
(a) Cultivation on large scale

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 (b) Tracing the history of evolution
(c) Breeding and improvement
(d) Chromosome study and phytogeny of cytotypes
14. Pollen grains of a plant whose 2n = 28 are cultured to get callus by tissue culture method. What would be the
number of chromosomes in the cells of the callus?
(a) 14
(b) 56
(c) 28
(d) 21
15. Hybrid vigour is eroded through –
(a) Repeated crossing
(b) Repeated selection
(c) Vegetative propagation
(d) Repeated selfing
16. Central Sugar cane breeding research institute is situated at
(a) Lucknow
(b) Delhi
(c) Coimbatore
(d) Bhopal
17. Hybrid vigour is mostly due to
(a) Heterozygosity
(b) Superiority of all the genes
(c) Homozygosity of pure characters
(d) Mixing up of cytoplasm of the male with that of female exclusively.
18. ‘Norin gene’ of dwarfness in wheat originated through spontaneous mutation in
(a) India
(b) Japan
(c) Mexico
(d) U.S.S.R.
19. Somaclonal variation can be obtained by
(a) Application of colchicine
(b) Hybridization
(c) Irradiation with gamma rays
(d) Tissue culture
20. Embryo rescue is used for
(a) Establishing suspension culture
(b) Recovery of interspecific hybrids/ difficult hybrids

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 (c) Somatic hybridization
(d) Haploid production

ANSWERS

1. Ans.(b) Meristem culture

2. Ans.(c) Outcrossing
3. Ans.(d) Mutation breeding
4. Ans.(c) Hybridization
5. Ans.(d) All of the above
6. Ans.(d) Both a and b
7. Ans.(a) Hybridization and mutation
8. Ans.(c) Philippines
9. Ans.(c) Mutation, hybridization, introduction and genetic engineering
10. Ans.(a) Herd size
11. Ans.(d) Norman E. Borlaug
12. Ans.(a) Explant
13. Ans.(c) Breeding and improvement
14. Ans.(a) 14
15. Ans.(d) Repeated selfing
16. Ans.(c) Coimbature
17. Ans.(a) Heterozigosity
18. Ans.(b) Japan
19. Ans.(d) Tissue culture
20. Ans.(b) Recovery of interspecific hybrids/ difficult hybrids