Plant Breeding and Genetics – MCQs

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1.Which of the following structures lacks RNA?

2.In which crop is self-incompatibility utilized to produce hybrid seeds?

3.In which type of inheritance do the genotypic and phenotypic ratios in a population match exactly?

4.What is the primary cause of continuous variation in traits?

5.Which of the following is considered an exception to Mendel's laws?

6.What is the gradual process through which new species develop from existing ones due to genetic variations called?

7.What will be the expected color distribution if the F1 generation (blue) is mated with a white male?

8.If a tall red plant is crossed with a dwarf white plant and all offspring in the F1 generation are tall and red, what phenotypic ratio is expected when a test cross is performed?

9.Given that a gymnosperm has a haploid chromosome number of 12, what will be the chromosome count in its endosperm?

10.When a plant heterozygous for height is self-pollinated, the F2 generation exhibits both tall and short plants. This observation supports which genetic principle?

11.When a plant that is heterozygous tall is crossed with a plant that is homozygous dwarf, what percentage of the offspring will be dwarf?

12.Which three fundamental laws of heredity were established by Mendel?

13.Starting from one parent cell, how many mitotic divisions are required to generate a total of 512 cells?

14.If a leaf cell contains eight chromosomes, what is the most probable number of chromosomes in its gametes?

15.What is the ploidy level of commercially grown seedless watermelons?

16.Mutation breeding is primarily applied to which type of crops?

17.Whisky is produced by distilling which of the following?

18.Which component of the pomegranate is the edible portion?

19.During which type of cell division does synapsis take place?

20.Which of the following plants utilizes the C4 photosynthetic pathway?

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