Barely is a ______ pollinated crop:
A.Often-cross
B.Self and cross
C.Cross
D.Self
Category: Agriculture Genetics Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Mcqs
A restorer gene is present in:
A.Nucleus
B.Cytoplasm
C.Both (a) & (b)
D.None of these
A dry, one chambered and one seeded fruit developing from a superior ovary with the hard and woody pericarp is:
A.Achene
B.Caryopsis
C.Composite fruit
D.None of the above
A fruit, which is collection of simple fruits developing from the apocarpous pistil of a flower, is known as:
A.Multiple fruit
B.Aggregate fruit
C.Complex fruit
D.Simple fruit
An endospermic cell of a seed after somatic chromosome number (2n = 20) will have:
A.30 Chromosomes
B.20 Chromosomes
C.10 Chromosomes
D.40 Chromosomes
A homozygous line developed by self-fertilization in a cross-pollinated crop is termed as:
A.Pureline
B.Inbred
C.Clone
D.Mutant
_______estimated that incompatibility occurs in more than 3,000 species among 20 families of the flowering plants:
A.D. De Winton
B.M.B. Hughes
C.W.H. Gabelman
D.E.M. East
Who is regarded as the father of botany?
A.Theofrastus
B.Gregor Mendel
C.Carolus Linnaeus
D.Oswald Tippo
Alternative forms of a gene is known a:
A.Mutation
B.Gamete
C.Allele
D.Genotype
