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Crop Production and Management

Description: Crop Production and Management
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What do you call the technique of selecting plants with superior phenotype for further propagation?

  1. Mass selection

  2. Pure line selection

  3. Acclimatisation

  4. Cloning


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (1).

Which of the following is/are used to induce polyploidy in plants?

  1. Colchicine

  2. Irradiation

  3. Mutagenic chemicals

  4. Ethylene


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (1).

Which of the following techniques is used to develop the Flavr Savr variety of tomato?

  1. Hybridisation between old varieties

  2. Hybridisation between a modern and a wild variety

  3. Mutation

  4. Incorporation of a transgene


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (4).

Which of the following tools would a farmer use to remove weeds from a field?

  1. Hoe

  2. Plough

  3. Axe

  4. Cultivator


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Hoe is used by a farmer to remove weeds from a field.

Which of the following is an exotic breed of poultry?

  1. Peela

  2. White leghorn

  3. Kajal

  4. Nurie


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (2).

What is the name given to the process of mating between two individuals differing in genotypes (to provide genetic variation)?

  1. Mutation

  2. Hybridisation

  3. Insemination

  4. Polyploidy


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (2).

Which of the following techniques is employed to produce haploids of Datura?

  1. Callus culture

  2. Anther culture

  3. Embryo culture

  4. Protoplast culture


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (2).

What do we call the process of growing wheat and gram simultaneously on the same piece of land in no fixed pattern?

  1. Crop rotation

  2. Intracropping

  3. Intercropping

  4. Mixed cropping


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (4).

What is the cultivation of fruits and vegetables called?

  1. Floriculture

  2. Sericulture

  3. Horticulture

  4. Agriculture


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (3).

Which of the following is a common weedicide?

  1. DDT

  2. Agent orange

  3. Metachlor

  4. Siniazine


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (3).

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