Enhancement in Food Production Quiz-5

BIOLOGY ENHANCEMENT IN FOOD PRODUCTION QUIZ-5

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Q1. Ranikhet or New Castle Disease of poultry is caused by:

•  Bacteria
•   Virus
•   Fungus
•  None of these

Solution
b)

Q2.Which one is a rich source of vitamin-A?
I. Carrot

II. Lemon

III. Beans

IV. Spinach
Choose the correct option

•   I and II
•   I and III
•   I and IV
•  I, II, III and IV

Solution
(c) The vegetable sources of vitamins-A are fat and cholesterol free. Sources of vitamin-A are carrots, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, winter squashes, cantaloupe, pink grape fruit, apricots, broccoli, spinach, and most dark green, leafy vegetables

Q3.  India’s wheat yield revolution in 1960s was possible primarily due to

•  Increased chlorophyll content
•  Mutations resulting in plant height reduction
•  Quantitative trait mutations
•  Hybrid seeds

Solution
(c) India’s wheat yield revolution in the 1960s was possible primarily due to the quantitative trait mutations

Q4. Best method to increase crop yield is (e.g. wheat)

•  Using tractors
•  Sowing seeds of improved varieties
•  Eradication of weeds
•  Reduce ration holders

Solution
b)

Q5.According to NCERT text, which of the following are selection and testing of superior recombination in plant breeding?

•   It involves selection of plants amont the progeny of the hybrids with desire combination of characters
•  The hybrid are superior to both the parents this is called hybrid vigour
•   They are self-pollinated for several generations till they rich a stable of uniformily or homozygosity in order to ovoid the segregation of characters in the future progeny
•  All of the above

Solution
 (d) All statements are correct

Q6. Blue revolution
I. It is the rapid expansion intensive commercial aquaculture
II. Increase global food production and reduce widespread hunger
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

•   Only I
•   Only II
•  I and II
•  None of these

Solution
(c) During the last two decades due to impact of blue revolution there has been a rapid global expansion of commercial aquaculture and it is now contribute significantly to the total global sea food production

Q7.Maximum contribution to the total milk production of our country comes from:

•  Cows
•  Buffaloes
•  Camels
•  Goat

Solution
b)

Q8.The term ‘totipotency’ refers to the capacity of a

•  Bud to generate whole plant
•  Cell to generate whole plant
•   Seed to germinate whole plant
•  Cell to enlarge in size

Solution
(b) The capacity of a cell explant to grow into a whole plant is called totipotency

Q9.Percentage of proteins in the fish meal is:

•  15-20%
•  25-50%
•  40-50%
•  55-70%

Solution
d)

Q10. The method of growing or producing thousands of plants through tissue culture is called

•  Totipotency
•  Somaclones
•  Micropropagation
•  :Macropropagation

Solution
c) The method of growing or producing thousands of plants through tissue culture is called micropropagation