Which method is most effective for transferring oligogenic characters?
Correct answer A. Backcross
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What type of fruit is the papaya?
Correct answer C. Berry type
Who developed the mass pedigree method?
Correct answer D. Harrington (1937)
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How is the lemon plant commercially propagated?
Correct answer C. Seed
Which pigment gives tomatoes their red colour?
Correct answer B. Lycopene
Which of the following counts as a heterogeneous population?
Correct answer D. All of the above
About how much protein does fresh fruit contain?
Correct answer D. 1%
Who developed the concept of multiline varieties?
Correct answer B. Jensen (1952)
Which plant hormone promotes cell division?
Correct answer B. Cytokinins
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What is the process of producing many identical copies of a gene sequence called?
Correct answer B. Gene cloning
What does topping mean in plant management?
Correct answer A. Removal of branches
For which purposes are RFLP and RAPD markers useful?
Correct answer D. All of the above
What is the science and art of establishing a tree crop called?
Correct answer B. Silviculture
Who produced the somatic hybrid ‘pomato’ by fusing potato and tomato protoplasts?
Correct answer A. Melchers et al (1978)
Which of these is a multipurpose tree?
Correct answer C. Kikar
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What is the commercial cultivation of grapes called?
Correct answer B. Viticulture
What governs cytoplasmic male sterility?
Correct answer C. Plasmagenes
Variation in the performance of one mango variety within the same orchard may come from seed-raised rootstocks. What type of seed causes this variation?
Correct answer C. Mono-embryonic
What does amphimixis refer to?
Correct answer C. Sexual reproduction
What happens to the rate of transpiration when humidity is high?
Correct answer D. Less