SPECIAL PROTEINS AND CROP IMPROVEMENT QUIZ

Plant tissue culture technique is used to select somaclones that are

not resistant to insecticides

not resistant to herbicide

resistant to herbicide

resistant to insecticides

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Protoplast fusion technique generally involves

isolation only

isolation and fusion

isolation, fusion and culturing

hybridization between two species

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Which of the following technique can be used to develop nematode resistant plants?

Mutation

Non-recombinant DNA

All of these

Embryo-rescue

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Cytoplast (somatic cell hybridization) is the process in which

a normal protoplast along with an enucleated protoplast fuse

both (a) and (b)

two enucleated protoplasts fuse

two protoplast along with their nuclei fuse

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Human serum albumin in case of transgenic plant is secreted in

transgenic root tissues

transgenic stem tissues

is not secreted out of plant

transgenic leaf tissues

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The intervention in the communication system of nematodes offer several possibilities of bio control. Which of the following(s) play(s) a very important role in the host recognition?

Lipid

Minerals

Protein

Carbohydrate moiety

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Cultivated tomato species (Lycopersicon esculentum) has a high degree of resistance towards

both (a) and (b)

Solarium melongena

L. peruviaanum

Meloidogyne spp.nematodes

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In transgenic plants of Arabidipsis thaliana which of the following gene is transferred for the synthesis of PHB (polyhdroxybutyrate)?

Acetyl Co A reductase

Polyhydroxybutyrate synthease

Pyrophosphorylase

Both (a) and (b)

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Somaclonal variation method refers to

genetic isolation

large number of plant cells

heritable changes

small number of species having limited commercial potential

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Which of the following govern sporophytic self-incompatibility in Brassica?

S alleles

Triticum

Both (a) and (b)

Aegilops

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