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Improvement in Food Resources - Assignment 1

The document discusses plant breeding techniques and improvement of food resources. It covers topics like plant breeding programs, development of crop varieties through hybridization and selection, exploitation of hybrid vigor, development of disease resistant varieties, and biofortification to improve nutritional quality of crops. It provides examples of improved rice and wheat varieties developed in India that contributed to the green revolution. The document is in a question-answer format with topics in plant breeding and improvement of agricultural crops.

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Improvement in Food Resources - Assignment 1

The document discusses plant breeding techniques and improvement of food resources. It covers topics like plant breeding programs, development of crop varieties through hybridization and selection, exploitation of hybrid vigor, development of disease resistant varieties, and biofortification to improve nutritional quality of crops. It provides examples of improved rice and wheat varieties developed in India that contributed to the green revolution. The document is in a question-answer format with topics in plant breeding and improvement of agricultural crops.

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Chapter: Improvement in food resources

Assignment 1

1. Plant breeding is a technique of improving


(a) Agricultural crops
(b) Fodder Crops
(c) Fruit varieties
(d) All the above

2. In plant breeding programmes, the entire collection (of plants/seeds) having all the diverse alleles
for all genes in a given crop is called
(a) selection of superior recombinations
(b) Cross -hybridization among the selected parents
(c) evaluation and selection of parents
(d) germplasm collection

3. “Jaya” and “Ratna” developed for green revolution in India are the varieties of
(a) Rice
(b) Wheat
(c) Bajra
(d) Maize

4. ‘Himgiri’ developed by hybridization and selection for disease resistance against rust pathogens is
a variety of
(a) Maize
(b) Sugarcane
(c) Wheat
(d) Chilli

5. Breeding of crops with high levels of minerals, vitamins and proteins is called
(a) somatic hybridisation
(b) biofortification
(c) biomagnification
(d) micropropagation

6. In maize, hybrid vigour is exploited by


(a) bombarding the seeds with DNA
(b) crossing of two inbred parental lines
(c) harvesting seeds from the most productive plants
(d) inducing mutations
7. Triticale, the first man made cereal crop, has been obtained by corssing wheat with
(a) Rye
(b) Pearl millet
(c) Sugar cane
(d) Barley

8. The name of the Indian Scientist associated with Green revolution in India is
(a) H.G. Khorana
(b) M.S. Swaminathan
(c) Homi bhaba
(d) C.N.R. Rao

9. Which is Indian dwarf wheat?


(a) T. dicoccum
(b) T. sphaerococcum
(c) T. turgidum
(d) T. aestivum

10. Apart from high yield, other main objective of plant breeding is
(a) Improvement of quality
(b) Development of resistance
(c) Establishment of change in duration
(d) All the above

11. Which one is an improved variety of wheat


(a) A.77
(b) Sonalika
(c) Chandramukhi
(d) Kuber

12. The basis of green revolution is


(a) Extensive cultivation
(b) Plant breeding
(c) Sowing at right time
(d) Cultivation in black oil

13. Plant can be made disease resistant by


(a) Breeding with their wild relatives
(b) Colchine treatment
(c) Hormone treatment
(d) Heat treatment
14. Biofortification refers to the development of crops which are
(a) resistant to disease
(b) resistant to insect pests
(c) having improved nutritional quality
(d) having improved iron content

15. Which of the following is not used as biofertilizer?


(a) Bacillus thuringiensis
(b) Anabaena
(c) Nostoc
(d) Rhizobium

ANSWER KEY

1. D 11. B
2. D 12. B
3. A 13. A
4. C 14. C
5. B 15. A
6. B
7. A
8. B
9. B
10. D

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