Strategies for enhancement in food production practice · Mixed difficulty

Somaclones are

Through which method more numbers of female plants can be produced in papaya?

Cereals and millets are mainly deficient in which type of amino acids

An improved breed of cattle is

$Spirulina$ is a

Single cell protein reduces

Essential oils are those which:

The way in which biotechnology is contributed to sustainable agriculture is

Which of the following is not an important characteristic of the green revolution?
I. Mechanised agriculture
II. Hybrid seeds
III. Slash and burn
Which of the above are correct?

Find odd one w.r.t. single cell protein.

The various methods of crop improvement are
I. selection II. Hybridization
III. polyploidy IV. mutation breeding
V. genetic engineering
Choose the correct option

___(i)__ and domestication from ancestral wild cows, we have well known Indian breeds e.g. __(ii)__ cow in Punjab. Here (i) and (ii) are respectively.

The nutrient medium for tissue culture should have
I. sucrose
II. inorganic salts
III. growth regulators
IV. vitamins
V. amino acids
Choose the correct option

Which of the given high yielding wheat variety was developed by mutating Mexican wheat?

Following are the steps in MOET programme for herd improvement in which a cow has been administered hormones with FSH like activity. Arrange steps $\mathrm{A}$ to $\mathrm{D}$ in their correct sequence.

A. Transferred to a surrogate mother.

B. It is either mated with an elite bull or artificially inseminated.

C. Fertilised eggs at 32 cell stage are recovered non-surgically

D. It produces 6-8 eggs instead of one egg which they normally yield per cycle.

Choose the correct option.

Which one of the following is not a fungal disease?

Source of resistance genes for developing insect/pest resistant variety can be
a. Cultivated varieties
b. Wild relatives
c. Germplasm collections of the crop

Which of the following statements is correct regarding nectar less cotton varieties?

Differentiation of organs and tissues in a developing organism is associated with

The cultivation of aquatic animals or plants for food is called

New cultivars are evaluated from agronomic traits by?

SCP reduces the pressure on agricultural production systems for the supply of the required

Select suitable option for following statements.

a. Animal husbandry is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.

b. Mule is hardier but not sturdier than their parental species.

c. Controlled breeding experiment are carried out using natural insemination.

d. Honey is a food of high nutritive value and also finds use in the non-indigenous system of medicine.

e. Jersey is recently domesticated bird.

f. Regular visit by a veterinary doctor would be mandatory in farm management.

Classical plant breeding involves

Statement-I: The phase between 1960-1970 is often called the Green Revolution
Statement-II: The development of several high yielding varieties of wheat and rice in 1960s increased yields per unit area

Somaclonal variation appears in plants

How many of the following are prokaryotic, heterotrophic SCP organisms? Chlorella, Torula Yeast, Methylophilus, Brevibacterium

To obtain a pathogen free plant from a diseased plant through tissue culture, the best technique is

Mode of nutrition of explant before organogenesis is

A hybrid where the cytoplasm of two parent cells are fused by retaining only one parental nucleus is called