Agriculture MCQs

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Eugenics refers to__________________?
A. Science concerned with improvement of heredity of animals
B. Science concerned with improvement of heredity of human race
C. Experimental alterations in the structure of the genes
D. Genetics of eukaryotes
When two genes are situated very close together in a chromosome_____________________?
A. The percentage of crossing over between them is very
B. Hardly any cross over are detected
C. No crossing ever can ever takes place between them
D. Only double cross over can take place between them
The first attempt to show linkage in plants were done in____________________?
A. Lathers odorous
B. Another lamarckian
C. Possum sativa
D. Zeal mays
When an albino plant of maize (female) is crossed with normal green plant (male) all plants in the progeny are albino because___________________?
A. Albinism is dominant over green characters
B. Green plastids of male parent become nitrated
C. Plastids are inherited through maternal parents
D. Crossing over results in structural changes in green plastids
Number of lindage groups of chromosomes____________________?
A. Diploid number of chromosomes
B. Tetraploid number of chromosomes
C. Haploid number of chromosomes
D. None of the above
One of the following is not an advantage of genetic engineering___________________?
A. Microbes act as biological factories
B. Improvement of crop can take place
C. The gene pool is maintained
D. Genetic error can be rectified
One of the following is not a technique in hybridization_________________?
A. Bagging
B. Inter over crossing
C. Intraspecific crossing
D. Inosculation