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Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production · Question 48

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1

The technique of obtaining large number of plantlets by tissue culture method is called –

  1. Macropropagation
  2. Organ culture
  3. Plantlet culture
  4. Micropropagation

Answer

(4) Micropropagation

Solution

As per NCERT, the method of producing thousands of plants through tissue culture in a very short duration is called micropropagation.

⇒ Each of these plants is genetically identical to the original plant (somaclones).

∴ The technique is micropropagation.

Answer: (4)

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2

India's wheat yield revolution in the 1960s was possible primarily due to :-

  1. Hybrid seeds
  2. Quantitative trait mutations
  3. Increased chlorophyll content
  4. Mutations resulting in plant height reduction
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3

Cellular totipotency is demonstrated by :

  1. All eukaryotic cells
  2. Only gymnosperm cells
  3. Only bacterial cells
  4. All plant cells
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4

What is the reason of formation of embryoid from pollen grain in tissue culture medium ?

  1. Double fertilization
  2. Test tube culture
  3. Cellular totipotency
  4. Organogenesis
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5

Which of the following crops have been brought to India from New world ?

  1. Mango, tea
  2. Coffee
  3. Tea, rubber, mango
  4. Cashewnut, potato, rubber
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6

Which statement is correct about centre of origin of plant ?

  1. Climatic condition more favourable
  2. More diversity in improved variety
  3. None
  4. Frequency of dominant gene is more
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7

Before the European invasion, which vegetables were absent in India?

  1. Simla mirch and Brinjal
  2. Bitter gourd
  3. Maize and chichinda
  4. Potato and Tomato
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8

Triticale is obtained by crossing wheat with

  1. Barley
  2. Rye
  3. Oat
  4. Maize
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9

Which statement is correct?

  1. Workers are the smallest of the three castes
  2. Wax is waste material of honey bee
  3. Drone of honey bee is diploid
  4. A. indica is largest wild honey bee
Out of syllabusAIPMT 2000

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