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CB31
SYLLABUS : Strategies for Enchancement in Food Production

Max. Marks : 180 Marking Scheme : + 4 for correct & (–1) for incorrect Time : 60 min.

INSTRUCTIONS : This Daily Practice Problem Sheet contains 45 MCQs. For each question only one option is correct.
Darken the correct circle/ bubble in the Response Grid provided on each page.

1. Parthenocarpic tomato fruits can be produced by (b) Biofortification

(a) treating the plants with low concentrations of (c) Biomagnification
gibberellic acid and auxins (d) Micropropagation
(b) raising the plants from vernalized seeds 4. Jaya and Ratna developed for green revolution in India are
(c) treating the plants with phenylmercuric acetate the varieties of
(d) removing androecium of flowers before pollen grains (a) maize (b) rice
are released (c) wheat (d) bajra
2. The technique of obtaining large number of plantlets by 5. Which one of the following pesticides is banned now a-
tissue culture method is called days?
(a) Plantlet culture (a) DDT (b) Eldrin
(b) Organ culture (c) Aldrin (d) Toxaphene
(c) Micropropagation 6. Which one of the following is an exotic Indian fish ?
(d) Macropropagation (a) Catla catla
3. Breeding of crops with high levels of minerals, vitamins and (b) Heteropneustes fossilis
proteins is called (c) Cyprinus carpio
(a) Somatic hybridisation (d) Labeo rohita

RESPONSE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
GRID 6.
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7. Consider the following statements concerning food chains : (a) Artificial insemination by a pedigree bull only
(i) Removal of 80% tigers from an area resulted in greatly (b) Superovulation of a high production cow only
increased growth of vegetation (c) Embryo transplantation only
(ii) Removal of most of the carnivores resulted in an (d) A combination of superovulation, artificial
increased population of deers insemination and embryo transplantation into a ‘carrier
(iii) The length of food chains is generally limited to 3-4 cow’ (surrogate mother)
trophic levels due to energy loss 14. Which one of the following statements is correct in relation
(iv) The length of food chains may vary from 2 to 8 trophic to honey bees?
levels (a) Apis indica is the largest wild honey bee in India
Which two of the above statements are correct? (b) Honey is predominantly sucrose and arabinose
(a) (ii) and (iii) (b) (iii) and (iv) (c) Beewax is a waste product of honey bees
(c) (i) and (iv) (d) (i) and (ii) (d) Communication in honey bees was discovered by Karl
8. Which one is a neem product used as insect repellent? Von Frisch
15. ‘Inland fishery’ refers to
(a) Azadirachtin (b) Rotenone
(a) Culturing fish in fresh water
(c) Parathione (d) Endrin
(b) Trapping and capturing fishes from sea coast
9. Bull semen for the purpose of artificial insemination is stored in
(c) Deep sea fishing
(a) Ice (b) Liquid oxygen (d) Extraction of oil from fishes
(c) Liquid nitrogen (d) Liquid CO2 16. Which of the following combinations is generally
10. The 'Mule' is the result of recommended for composite fish farming in India?
(a) Inbreeding depression (a) Catla, Labeo, Cirrhinus
(b) Out breeding (b) Catla, Cyprinus, Clarias
(c) Cross breeding (c) Clarias, Channa, Cyprinus
(d) Inter-specific hybridization (d) Cirrhinus, Cyprinus, Channa
11. In live stock breeding experiments the following stage is 17. Hinny is a hybrid of male
transferred to surrogate mothers (a) Horse and female donkey
(a) Unfertilized eggs (b) Donkey and female horse
(b) Fertilized eggs (c) Goat and female lamb
(c) 8 to 32 celled embryo (d) Sheep and female goat.
(d) Frozen semen 18. When cross is made between two species of the same genus,
12. The animal husbandry deals with the care, breeding and then the cross is known as
management of (a) intraspecific hybridization
(a) Domesticated animals (b) interspecific hybridization
(b) Fishes (c) intergeneric hybridization
(c) Honey bees and silk worms (d) intervarietal hybridization
(d) All of these 19. Which of the following is a viral disease of poultry birds?
13. Which of the following has been recently used for increasing (a) Anthrax (b) Ranikhet
productivity of super milk cows? (c) Coccidiosis (d) None of these

7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
RESPONSE
12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
GRID
17. 18. 19.
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20. Which one of the following processes of breeding increases 27. In order to obtain virus- free plants through tissue culture,
homozygosity? the best method is
(a) Inbreeding (a) protoplast culture (b) embryo rescue
(b) Out breeding (c) anther culture (d) meristem culture
(c) Cross breeding 28. A collection of plants and seeds having diverse alleles of all
(d) Inter-specific breeding the genes of a crop is called
21. The most popular breed of fowl in India is (a) herbarium (b) germplasm
(a) White leg horn (b) Aseel (c) gene library (d) genome
(c) Plymouth (d) Langshan 29. Which one of the following is a wrong matching?
22. Murrah, Mehsana, Jaffarbadi are breeds of (a) Somatic hybridization - Fusion of two diverse cells
(a) Buffalo (b) Cow (b) Vector DNA -Site for t-RNA synthesis
(c) Cattle (d) Horse (c) Micropropagation - in vitro production of plants in
23. Consumption of which one of the following foods can large numbers
prevent the kind of blindness associated with vitamin ‘A’ (d) Callus - Unorganised mass of cell produced in tissue
deficiency ? culture
(a) ‘Flavr Savr’ tomato 30. In tissue culture roots can be induced by
(b) Canolla (a) no cytokinin and only auxins.
(c) Golden rice (b) higher concentration cytokinin and lower concentration
(d) Bt-Brinjal auxins.
24. Golden rice is a transgenic crop of the future with the (c) lower concentration of cytokinin and higher
following improved trait : concentration of auxins.
(a) insect resistance (d) only cytokinin and no auxins.
(b) high lysine (essential amino acid) content 31. Three crops that contribute maximum to global food grain
(c) high protein content production are
(d) high vitamin-A content (a) Wheat, rice and maize
25. Use of transgenic plants as biological factories for the (b) Wheat, rice and barley
production of special chemicals is called– (c) Wheat, maize and sorghum
(a) Molecular farming (b) Molecular genetics (d) Rice, maize and sorghum
(c) Molecular mapping (d) Dry farming 32. Himgiri developed by hybridisation and selection for disease
26. Main objective of production/use of herbicide resistant GM resistance against rust pathogens is a variety of
crops is to (a) chilli (b) maize
(a) eliminate weeds from the field without the use of manual (c) sugarcane (d) wheat
labour 33. Bee dances are meant for
(b) eliminate weeds from the field without the use of (a) Courtship (b) Communication
herbicides (c) Recreation (d) Instinct
(c) encourage eco-friendly herbicides 34. Artificial insemination involves
(d) reduce herbicide accumulation in food articles for health (a) super ovulation (b) semen collection
safety (c) egg collection (d) embryo collection

20. 21. 22. 23. 24.

RESPONSE
25. 26. 27. 28. 29.
GRID
30. 31. 32. 33. 34.
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35. The term "breed" refers to 43. Refer the given figures and answer the questions.
(a) a group of animals not related by descent but similar
in most characters
(b) a group of animals related by descent and similar in
most characters
(c) a group of animals related by descent but have
almost different characteristics
(d) a group of animals neither related by descent nor
have similar characteristics. Which of the following statements is correct regarding the
36. What strategy would you suggest if a person wants to above figures?
evolve a pureline in an animal? (i) These are all Indian hybrid crops of low yielding varieties.
(a) Cross-breeding (b) Inbreeding (ii) These are all Indian hybrid crops of high yielding varieties.
(c) Out-breeding (d) Artificial insemination (iii) The production of the above crops led to dramatic in-
37. Select the incorrect statement from the following. crease in food production.
(a) Apiculture provides additional income generating (iv) These crops are produced as a result of various plants
industry to the farmers. breeding technique.
(b) Bee keeping is labour intensive process. (a) (i), (ii), and (iii) (b) (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(c) Bee venom is used to cure certain diseases like gout (c) (iii) and (iv) only (d) (i) and (iii) only
and arthritis. 44. Match Column - I with Column - II
(d) Honey is used as laxative, antiseptic and sedative. Column-I Column-II
38. Germplasm collection is the collection of A. Hybrid variety (I). X-ray
(a) germ cells B. Mutation (II). Allopolyploidy
C. Pure line (III). F1 generation
(b) semens
D. Triticale (IV). Selection in self
(c) plants/seeds with all the diverse alleles for all genes
pollinated crops
(d) egg cells (V). Genetic engineering
39. Which of the following diseases is caused by virus? (a) A-(III); B-(II); C-(I); D-(IV)
(a) Tobacco mosaic (b) Late blight of potato (b) A-(III); B-(I); C-(IV); D-(II)
(c) Turnip mosaic (d) Both (a) and (c) (c) A-(I); B-(III); C-(IV); D-(II)
40. Single cell protein can be obtained from (d) A-(II); B-(I); C-(III); D-(IV)
(a) bacteria (b) algae 45. Farmers in a particular region were concerned that pre-mature
(c) fungi (d) all of these yellowing of leaves of a pulse crop might cause decrease in
41. Meristem culture is used the yield. Which treatment could be most beneficial to obtain
(a) to produce disease free plants maximum seed yield ?
(b) in germplasm conservation (a) Treatment of the plants with cytokinins along with a
(c) in rapid clonal multiplication small dose of nitrogenous fertilizer
(d) all of these (b) Removal of all yellow leaves and spraying the remaining
42. A plant cell without cell wall is called green leaves with 2, 4, 5- trichlorophenoxy acetic acid
(a) proplast (b) protoplast (c) Application of iron and magnesium to promote
(c) nucleoplasm (d) explant synthesis of chlorophyll
(d) Frequent irrigation of the crop
35. 36. 37. 38. 39.
RESPONSE
40. 41. 42. 43. 44.
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45.
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DAILY PRACTICE PROBLEM DPP CHAPTERWISE 31 - BIOLOGY

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1. (a) Parthenocarpy is the development of fruits without prior 14. (d) Karl Von Frisch, carried out many experiments and determined
fertilization which results in the formation of seedless fruits. that when a foraging bee returns to the hive, it performs a
In some plant species, parthenocarpic fruits are produced waggle dance. Honey is predominantly glucose and fructose.
naturally or they may be induced by treatment of the Dorsata is a bigger bee than Apis indica (a medium sized
unpollinated flowers with auxin. bee). Bees wax is secreted by special wax glands to make
Removal of androecium before pollen release is called compartments.
emasculation which is helpful in preventing unwanted 15. (a) 16. (a) 17. (a) 18. (b) 19. (b) 20. (a)
pollination. Vernalized seeds are the chilled treated seeds for 21. (a) White leghorn is a mediterranean breed.
breaking dormancy. Phenyl Mercuric Acetate is an 22. (a)
antitranspirant. 23. (c) Golden rice is vitamin A rich variety developed by rDNA
Gibberellins and Auxins are known to induce parthenocarpy technology and used in the treatment of vitamin A deficiency.
in plants. If a tomato plant is treated with a low concentration 24. (d) Golden rice is a transgenic crop of the future with high Vit. A
of auxin and gibberellic acid it wll produce fruits without content. Millions of people suffer from Vit. A deficiency
fertilization i.e. parthenocarpic fruits. which leads to vision impairment. Transgenic rice has been
2. (a) developed which is capable of synthesizing beta carotene,
3. (b) Breeding of crops with high levels of minerals, vitamin and the precursor of Vitamin A. The rice variety is now being
minerals is called biofortification. This is most practical aspect crossed into adapted varieties with field tests possible in an
to improve the health of people. year or two.
4. (b) Jaya and Ratna are two rice varieties developed for green 25. (a)
revolution in India. 26. (d) Main objective of production/use of herbicide resistant GM
• The scientific name of Jaya is IET-723. This paddy variety crops is to reduce herbicide accumulation in food articles for
takes about 130 days to grow and the grain is long, bold and health safety. GM plants has been useful in many ways.
white. Its yield is 50-60 quintals per hectare. Genetic modifications has made crops more tolerant to abiotic
• The scientific name of ‘Ratna’ is IET-1411. It takes about stresses, reduced reliance on chemical pesticides, enhanced
130-135 days to grow. The grain is long, slender and white. nutritional value of food.
Its yield is 45-50 quintal/hectare. 27. (d) In order to obtain virus-free plants through tissue culture,
5. (a) DDT was subsequently banned for agricultural use worldwide the best method is meristem culture. Meristem tip culture is
under the Stockholm Convention, but its limited use in disease used successfully to remove viruses, bacteria, in order to
vector control continues to these days in certain parts of the produce the greatest number of plants. Meristem culture is
world and remains controversial. Along with the passage of used to produce healthy propagation stock for crops and
the endangered Species Act, the US ban on DDT is cited by ornamentals.
scientists as a major factor in the comeback of the bald eagle 28. (c) Gene library contains DNA fragments representing the entire
in the contiguous US. genome of an organism. So collection of alleles of the genes of
6. (c) Catla catla and Labeo rohita are the two Indian major carps a crop is called gene library.
whereas Heteropneustes is a catfish. Cyprinus is the exotic 29. (b) Vector DNA are the DNA molecules that can carry a foreign
breed. DNA segment and replicate inside the host cells. Vector DNA
7. (a) Food chain is the transfer of energy from green plants (primary may be plasmids, a bacteriophage, cosmids, yeast artificial
producers), through a sequence of organisms in a food chain chromosomes.
occupying different trophic level. Therefore, statements (ii) 30. (c)
and (iii) are correct. 31. (a) Three crops that contribute maximum to global food grain
8. (a) Azadirachtin is a chemical compound belonging to the production are Wheat, rice and maize, which belong to the
limonoids. It is a secondary metabolite present in the Neem family Poaceae (Graminae).
tree seeds. The molecular formula is C35H44O16. Azadirachtin 32. (d) ‘Himgiri’ developed by hybridisation and selection for disease
is a highly oxidised tetranortriterpenoid which boosts a resistance against rust pathogens is a variety of wheat. It is
plethora of oxygen functionality, comprising an enol ether, resistant to leaf/stripe rust and hill bunt.
acetal, hemiacetal, and tetra-substituted oxirane as well as a 33. (b)
variety of carboxylic esters. It is classified among the plant 34. (b) Controlled breeding experiments are carried out using artifi-
secondary metabolites. cial insemination. The semen is collected from the male and
9. (c) 10. (d) 11. (c) 12. (d) is injected either deep into the cervix or at the beginning of
13. (d) In superovulation, a high milk yielding cow is induced to the body of the uterus of the selected female by the breeder.
shed 4–6 eggs (instead of one) every 6–8 weeks (instead of The semen may be used immediately or can be frozen and
20–21 days). The superovulated donor is artificially used later. It can also be transported in a frozen form.
inseminated with semen from a quality bull. The embryos 35. (b) Breed is a group of animals related by descent and similar in
developing from the eggs so fertilised are flushed out. These most characters like general appearance, features, size, con-
good quality embryos are now transferred to surrogate mother figuration, etc.
for delivery. 36. (b) Inbreeding strategies allow the desirable qualities of more
closely related individuals to be continued within the same
breed for 4-6 generations. It increases homozygosity and
thus, is necessary for evolving a pure line. Continued in-
breeding, especially close inbreeding usually leads to reduces
fertility and even productivity. This is called inbreeding de-
pression.
37. (b) Products of honey bee are honey, bee wax, bee venom and
royal jelly. Medicinal importance includes its uses as laxa-
tive, antiseptic, sedative, etc. It is also used against digestive
disorders. Bee venom is used to cure gout and arthritis. Bee
 was is used is producing cosmetics, paints polishes, etc. It is
not a labour intensive process and is source of additional
income to the farmers.
38. (c) Germplasm is the sum total of all the alleles of the genes
present in a crop and its related species. The germplasm of
any crop species consists of the following types of materi-
als: cultivated improved varieties, improved varieties that
are no more in cultivation, old local or 'desi' varieties, pure
lines produced by plant breeders, and wild species related to
the crop species.
39. (d) Tobacco mosaic is caused by Tobacco Mosaic Virus. The
infection causes characteristic patterns, such as "mosaic"-
like mottling and discolouration on the leaves. Turnip Mo-
saic Virus causes turnip mosaic. Chlorotic lesions, mosaic
and mottling are the common symptoms of this disease.
40. (d) The cell from micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi, fila-
mentous algae, treated in various ways and used as food, are
called single cell protein (SCP). The biomass is not only
obtained from unicellular microorganisms but also from mul-
ticellular microorganisms.
41. (d) Meristem is a localized group of cells, which are actively
dividing and undifferentiated but ultimately give rise to per-
manent tissue. Cultivation of axillary or apical shoot mer-
istems is called meristem culture. Meristem culture is carried
out in potato, banana, cardamom, orchids (protocorm stage),
sugarcane, strawberry, sweet potato, etc.
42. (b) The plant cell without cell wall are called protoplasts.
43. (b) The above figures of maize, wheat and garden pea are some
Indian hybrid crops. The term "hybrid" refers to a plant
variety which is developed through the interbreeding of two
or more varieties, genera or species. Though hybrids contain
the best properties of the parent plants, they usually do not
breed true and often revert to one of the parent plants. Hy-
brids are favoured for greater disease resistance, more vigor-
ous growth, earlier maturity, higher quality of vegetables,
better uniformity and improved flavour.
44. (b)
45. (c) Because iron promotes the formation of chlorophyll and
magnesium is an integral part of chlorophyll molecule so in
the absence of these nutrients plants show chlorosis & leaves
get yellowing. Application of iron and magnesium to promote
the synthesis of chlorophyll can cure the disease.