Which instrument measures the relative humidity of the atmosphere?
Correct answer C. Hygrometer
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What is the ratio of additive genetic variance to phenotypic variance called?
Correct answer D. Heritability (narrow sense)
What are edible seeds such as almonds and pecans known as?
Correct answer B. Nuts
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Specific combining ability is mainly a function of what?
Correct answer D. All of the above
What is the outdoor production of vegetables outside their normal season called?
Correct answer C. Vegetable forcing
What can be estimated by analysis of covariance?
Correct answer D. All of the above
How are ginger and turmeric propagated?
Correct answer A. Rhizome
Who coined the term genetic homeostasis?
Correct answer A. Lerner (1954)
Antioxidants are used to protect food from which problem?
Correct answer C. Discolouration
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Who coined the term polygenes?
Correct answer C. Mather (1943)
Who introduced the concept of path coefficient analysis?
Correct answer B. Wright (1921)
Which of the following is a good source of vitamin A?
Correct answer D. Mango
What is the difference between the mean phenotypic value of progeny from selected plants and that of the parental population called?
Correct answer D. Genetic advance
Which one of the following is not a fruit?
Correct answer C. Potato
In which crop is the toxic substance cyanogenic glycoside found?
Correct answer A. Cassava
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Who developed the concept of generation mean analysis?
Correct answer A. Hayman (1958)
Who coined the term recurrent selection?
Correct answer C. Hull (1945)
Which crop shows the highest level of starch accumulation?
Correct answer A. Cassava
Who proposed the method of genetic selection?
Correct answer D. Stadler (1944)
In which plants does lenticular transpiration mostly occur?
Correct answer D. Woody plants