Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production Practice Questions - DPP for NEET

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1. Parthenocarpic tomato fruits can be produced by
(a) treating the plants with low concentrations of
gibberellic acid and auxins
(b) raising the plants from vernalized seeds
(c) treating the plants with phenylmercuric acetate
(d) removing androecium of flowers before pollen grains
are released
2. The technique of obtaining large number of plantlets by
tissue culture method is called
(a) Plantlet culture
(b) Organ culture
(c) Micropropagation
(d) Macropropagation
3. Breeding of crops with high levels of minerals, vitamins and
proteins is called
(a) Somatic hybridisation
(b) Biofortification
(c) Biomagnification
(d) Micropro pagation
4. Jaya and Ratna developed for green revolution in India are
the varieties of
(a) maize (b) rice
(c) wheat (d) bajra
5. Which one of the following pesticides is banned now a-
days?
(a) DDT (b) Eldrin
(c) Aldrin (d) Toxaphene
6. Which one of the following is an exotic Indian fish ?
(a) Catla catla
(b) Heteropneustes fossilis
(c) Cyprinus carpio
(d) Labeo rohita
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1. Parthenocarpic tomato fruits can be produced by
(a) treating the plants with low concentrations of
gibberellic acid and auxins
(b) raising the plants from vernalized seeds
(c) treating the plants with phenylmercuric acetate
(d) removing androecium of flowers before pollen grains
are released
2. The technique of obtaining large number of plantlets by
tissue culture method is called
(a) Plantlet culture
(b) Organ culture
(c) Micropropagation
(d) Macropropagation
3. Breeding of crops with high levels of minerals, vitamins and
proteins is called
(a) Somatic hybridisation
(b) Biofortification
(c) Biomagnification
(d) Micropro pagation
4. Jaya and Ratna developed for green revolution in India are
the varieties of
(a) maize (b) rice
(c) wheat (d) bajra
5. Which one of the following pesticides is banned now a-
days?
(a) DDT (b) Eldrin
(c) Aldrin (d) Toxaphene
6. Which one of the following is an exotic Indian fish ?
(a) Catla catla
(b) Heteropneustes fossilis
(c) Cyprinus carpio
(d) Labeo rohita
B-122
DPP/ CB31
7. Consider the following statements concerning food chains :
(i) Removal of 80% tigers from an area resulted in greatly
increased growth of vegetation
(ii) Removal of most of the carnivores resulted in an
increased population of deers
(iii) The length of food chains is generally limited to 3-4
trophic levels due to energy loss
(iv) The length of food chains may vary from 2 to 8 trophic
levels
Which two of the above statements are correct?
(a) (ii) and (iii) (b) (iii) and (iv)
(c) (i) and (iv) (d) (i) and (ii)
8. Which one is a neem product used as insect repellent?
(a) Azadirachtin (b) Rotenone
(c) Parathione (d) Endrin
9. Bull semen for the purpose of artificial insemination is stored in
(a) Ice (b) Liquid oxygen
(c) Liquid nitrogen (d) Liquid CO
2
10. The 'Mule' is the result of
(a) Inbreeding depression
(b) Out breeding
(c) Cross breeding
(d) Inter-specific hybridization
11. In live stock breeding experiments the following stage is
transferred to surrogate mothers
(a) Unfertilized eggs
(b) Fertilized eggs
(c) 8 to 32 celled embryo
(d) Frozen semen
12. The animal husbandry deals with the care, breeding and
management of
(a) Domesticated animals
(b) Fishes
(c) Honey bees and silk worms
(d) All of these
13. Which of the following has been recently used for increasing
productivity of super milk cows?
(a) Artificial insemination by a pedigree bull only
(b) Superovulation of a high production cow only
(c) Embryo transplantation only
(d) A combination of superovulation, artificial
insemination and embryo transplantation into a ‘carrier
cow’ (surrogate mother)
14. Which one of the following statements is correct in relation
to honey bees?
(a) Apis indica is the largest wild honey bee in India
(b) Honey is predominantly sucrose and arabinose
(c) Beewax is a waste product of honey bees
(d) Communication in honey bees was discovered by Karl
V on Frisch
15. ‘Inland fishery’ refers to
(a) Culturing fish in fresh water
(b) Trapping and capturing fishes from sea coast
(c) Deep sea fishing
(d) Extraction of oil from fishes
16. Which of the following combinations is generally
recommended for composite fish farming in India?
(a) Catla, Labeo, Cirrhinus
(b) Catla, Cyprinus, Clarias
(c) Clarias, Channa, Cyprinus
(d) Cirrhinus, Cyprinus, Channa
17. Hinny is a hybrid of male
(a) Horse and female donkey
(b) Donkey and female horse
(c) Goat and female lamb
(d) Sheep and female goat.
18. When cross is made between two species of the same genus,
then the cross is known as
(a) intraspecific hybridization
(b) interspecific hybridization
(c) intergeneric hybridization
(d) intervarietal hybridization
19. Which of the following is a viral disease of poultry birds?
(a) Anthrax (b) Ranikhet
(c) Coccidiosis (d) None of these
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1. Parthenocarpic tomato fruits can be produced by
(a) treating the plants with low concentrations of
gibberellic acid and auxins
(b) raising the plants from vernalized seeds
(c) treating the plants with phenylmercuric acetate
(d) removing androecium of flowers before pollen grains
are released
2. The technique of obtaining large number of plantlets by
tissue culture method is called
(a) Plantlet culture
(b) Organ culture
(c) Micropropagation
(d) Macropropagation
3. Breeding of crops with high levels of minerals, vitamins and
proteins is called
(a) Somatic hybridisation
(b) Biofortification
(c) Biomagnification
(d) Micropro pagation
4. Jaya and Ratna developed for green revolution in India are
the varieties of
(a) maize (b) rice
(c) wheat (d) bajra
5. Which one of the following pesticides is banned now a-
days?
(a) DDT (b) Eldrin
(c) Aldrin (d) Toxaphene
6. Which one of the following is an exotic Indian fish ?
(a) Catla catla
(b) Heteropneustes fossilis
(c) Cyprinus carpio
(d) Labeo rohita
B-122
DPP/ CB31
7. Consider the following statements concerning food chains :
(i) Removal of 80% tigers from an area resulted in greatly
increased growth of vegetation
(ii) Removal of most of the carnivores resulted in an
increased population of deers
(iii) The length of food chains is generally limited to 3-4
trophic levels due to energy loss
(iv) The length of food chains may vary from 2 to 8 trophic
levels
Which two of the above statements are correct?
(a) (ii) and (iii) (b) (iii) and (iv)
(c) (i) and (iv) (d) (i) and (ii)
8. Which one is a neem product used as insect repellent?
(a) Azadirachtin (b) Rotenone
(c) Parathione (d) Endrin
9. Bull semen for the purpose of artificial insemination is stored in
(a) Ice (b) Liquid oxygen
(c) Liquid nitrogen (d) Liquid CO
2
10. The 'Mule' is the result of
(a) Inbreeding depression
(b) Out breeding
(c) Cross breeding
(d) Inter-specific hybridization
11. In live stock breeding experiments the following stage is
transferred to surrogate mothers
(a) Unfertilized eggs
(b) Fertilized eggs
(c) 8 to 32 celled embryo
(d) Frozen semen
12. The animal husbandry deals with the care, breeding and
management of
(a) Domesticated animals
(b) Fishes
(c) Honey bees and silk worms
(d) All of these
13. Which of the following has been recently used for increasing
productivity of super milk cows?
(a) Artificial insemination by a pedigree bull only
(b) Superovulation of a high production cow only
(c) Embryo transplantation only
(d) A combination of superovulation, artificial
insemination and embryo transplantation into a ‘carrier
cow’ (surrogate mother)
14. Which one of the following statements is correct in relation
to honey bees?
(a) Apis indica is the largest wild honey bee in India
(b) Honey is predominantly sucrose and arabinose
(c) Beewax is a waste product of honey bees
(d) Communication in honey bees was discovered by Karl
V on Frisch
15. ‘Inland fishery’ refers to
(a) Culturing fish in fresh water
(b) Trapping and capturing fishes from sea coast
(c) Deep sea fishing
(d) Extraction of oil from fishes
16. Which of the following combinations is generally
recommended for composite fish farming in India?
(a) Catla, Labeo, Cirrhinus
(b) Catla, Cyprinus, Clarias
(c) Clarias, Channa, Cyprinus
(d) Cirrhinus, Cyprinus, Channa
17. Hinny is a hybrid of male
(a) Horse and female donkey
(b) Donkey and female horse
(c) Goat and female lamb
(d) Sheep and female goat.
18. When cross is made between two species of the same genus,
then the cross is known as
(a) intraspecific hybridization
(b) interspecific hybridization
(c) intergeneric hybridization
(d) intervarietal hybridization
19. Which of the following is a viral disease of poultry birds?
(a) Anthrax (b) Ranikhet
(c) Coccidiosis (d) None of these
DPP/ CB31
B-123
20. Which one of the following processes of breeding increases
homozygosity?
(a) Inbreeding
(b) Out breeding
(c) Cross breeding
(d) Inter-specific breeding
21. The most popular breed of fowl in India is
(a) White leg horn (b) Aseel
(c) Plymouth (d) Langshan
22. Murrah, Mehsana, Jaffarbadi are breeds of
(a) Buffalo (b) Cow
(c) Cattle (d) Horse
23. Consumption of which one of the following foods can
prevent the kind of blindness associated with vitamin ‘A’
deficiency ?
(a)‘Flavr Savr’ tomato
(b) Canolla
(c) Golden rice
(d) Bt-Brinjal
24. Golden rice is a transgenic crop of the future with the
following improved trait :
(a) insect resistance
(b) high lysine (essential amino acid) content
(c) high protein content
(d) high vitamin-A content
25. Use of transgenic plants as biological factories for the
production of special chemicals is called–
(a) Molecular farming (b) Molecular genetics
(c) Molecular mapping (d) Dry farming
26. Main objective of production/use of herbicide resistant GM
crops is to
(a) eliminate weeds from the field without the use of manual
labour
(b) eliminate weeds from the field without the use of
herbicides
(c) encourage eco-friendly herbicides
(d) reduce herbicide accumulation in food articles for health
safety
27. In order to obtain virus- free plants through tissue culture,
the best method is
(a) protoplast culture (b) embryo rescue
(c) anther culture (d) meristem culture
28. A collection of plants and seeds having diverse alleles of all
the genes of a crop is called
(a) herbarium (b) germplasm
(c) gene library (d) genome
29. Which one of the following is a wrong matching?
(a) Somatic hybridization - Fusion of two diverse cells
(b) V ector DNA -Site for t-RNA synthesis
(c) Micropropagation - in vitro production of plants in
large numbers
(d) Callus - Unorganised mass of cell produced in tissue
culture
30. In tissue culture roots can be induced by
(a) no cytokinin and only auxins.
(b) higher concentration cytokinin and lower concentration
auxins.
(c) lower concentration of cytokinin and higher
concentration of auxins.
(d) only cytokinin and no auxins.
31. Three crops that contribute maximum to global food grain
production are
(a) Wheat, rice and maize
(b) Wheat, rice and barley
(c) Wheat, maize and sorghum
(d) Rice, maize and sorghum
32. Himgiri developed by hybridisation and selection for disease
resistance against rust pathogens is a variety of
(a) chilli (b) maize
(c) sugarcane (d) wheat
33. Bee dances are meant for
(a) Courtship (b) Communication
(c) Recreation (d) Instinct
34. Artificial insemination involves
(a) super ovulation (b) semen collection
(c) egg collection (d) embryo collection
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1. Parthenocarpic tomato fruits can be produced by
(a) treating the plants with low concentrations of
gibberellic acid and auxins
(b) raising the plants from vernalized seeds
(c) treating the plants with phenylmercuric acetate
(d) removing androecium of flowers before pollen grains
are released
2. The technique of obtaining large number of plantlets by
tissue culture method is called
(a) Plantlet culture
(b) Organ culture
(c) Micropropagation
(d) Macropropagation
3. Breeding of crops with high levels of minerals, vitamins and
proteins is called
(a) Somatic hybridisation
(b) Biofortification
(c) Biomagnification
(d) Micropro pagation
4. Jaya and Ratna developed for green revolution in India are
the varieties of
(a) maize (b) rice
(c) wheat (d) bajra
5. Which one of the following pesticides is banned now a-
days?
(a) DDT (b) Eldrin
(c) Aldrin (d) Toxaphene
6. Which one of the following is an exotic Indian fish ?
(a) Catla catla
(b) Heteropneustes fossilis
(c) Cyprinus carpio
(d) Labeo rohita
B-122
DPP/ CB31
7. Consider the following statements concerning food chains :
(i) Removal of 80% tigers from an area resulted in greatly
increased growth of vegetation
(ii) Removal of most of the carnivores resulted in an
increased population of deers
(iii) The length of food chains is generally limited to 3-4
trophic levels due to energy loss
(iv) The length of food chains may vary from 2 to 8 trophic
levels
Which two of the above statements are correct?
(a) (ii) and (iii) (b) (iii) and (iv)
(c) (i) and (iv) (d) (i) and (ii)
8. Which one is a neem product used as insect repellent?
(a) Azadirachtin (b) Rotenone
(c) Parathione (d) Endrin
9. Bull semen for the purpose of artificial insemination is stored in
(a) Ice (b) Liquid oxygen
(c) Liquid nitrogen (d) Liquid CO
2
10. The 'Mule' is the result of
(a) Inbreeding depression
(b) Out breeding
(c) Cross breeding
(d) Inter-specific hybridization
11. In live stock breeding experiments the following stage is
transferred to surrogate mothers
(a) Unfertilized eggs
(b) Fertilized eggs
(c) 8 to 32 celled embryo
(d) Frozen semen
12. The animal husbandry deals with the care, breeding and
management of
(a) Domesticated animals
(b) Fishes
(c) Honey bees and silk worms
(d) All of these
13. Which of the following has been recently used for increasing
productivity of super milk cows?
(a) Artificial insemination by a pedigree bull only
(b) Superovulation of a high production cow only
(c) Embryo transplantation only
(d) A combination of superovulation, artificial
insemination and embryo transplantation into a ‘carrier
cow’ (surrogate mother)
14. Which one of the following statements is correct in relation
to honey bees?
(a) Apis indica is the largest wild honey bee in India
(b) Honey is predominantly sucrose and arabinose
(c) Beewax is a waste product of honey bees
(d) Communication in honey bees was discovered by Karl
V on Frisch
15. ‘Inland fishery’ refers to
(a) Culturing fish in fresh water
(b) Trapping and capturing fishes from sea coast
(c) Deep sea fishing
(d) Extraction of oil from fishes
16. Which of the following combinations is generally
recommended for composite fish farming in India?
(a) Catla, Labeo, Cirrhinus
(b) Catla, Cyprinus, Clarias
(c) Clarias, Channa, Cyprinus
(d) Cirrhinus, Cyprinus, Channa
17. Hinny is a hybrid of male
(a) Horse and female donkey
(b) Donkey and female horse
(c) Goat and female lamb
(d) Sheep and female goat.
18. When cross is made between two species of the same genus,
then the cross is known as
(a) intraspecific hybridization
(b) interspecific hybridization
(c) intergeneric hybridization
(d) intervarietal hybridization
19. Which of the following is a viral disease of poultry birds?
(a) Anthrax (b) Ranikhet
(c) Coccidiosis (d) None of these
DPP/ CB31
B-123
20. Which one of the following processes of breeding increases
homozygosity?
(a) Inbreeding
(b) Out breeding
(c) Cross breeding
(d) Inter-specific breeding
21. The most popular breed of fowl in India is
(a) White leg horn (b) Aseel
(c) Plymouth (d) Langshan
22. Murrah, Mehsana, Jaffarbadi are breeds of
(a) Buffalo (b) Cow
(c) Cattle (d) Horse
23. Consumption of which one of the following foods can
prevent the kind of blindness associated with vitamin ‘A’
deficiency ?
(a)‘Flavr Savr’ tomato
(b) Canolla
(c) Golden rice
(d) Bt-Brinjal
24. Golden rice is a transgenic crop of the future with the
following improved trait :
(a) insect resistance
(b) high lysine (essential amino acid) content
(c) high protein content
(d) high vitamin-A content
25. Use of transgenic plants as biological factories for the
production of special chemicals is called–
(a) Molecular farming (b) Molecular genetics
(c) Molecular mapping (d) Dry farming
26. Main objective of production/use of herbicide resistant GM
crops is to
(a) eliminate weeds from the field without the use of manual
labour
(b) eliminate weeds from the field without the use of
herbicides
(c) encourage eco-friendly herbicides
(d) reduce herbicide accumulation in food articles for health
safety
27. In order to obtain virus- free plants through tissue culture,
the best method is
(a) protoplast culture (b) embryo rescue
(c) anther culture (d) meristem culture
28. A collection of plants and seeds having diverse alleles of all
the genes of a crop is called
(a) herbarium (b) germplasm
(c) gene library (d) genome
29. Which one of the following is a wrong matching?
(a) Somatic hybridization - Fusion of two diverse cells
(b) V ector DNA -Site for t-RNA synthesis
(c) Micropropagation - in vitro production of plants in
large numbers
(d) Callus - Unorganised mass of cell produced in tissue
culture
30. In tissue culture roots can be induced by
(a) no cytokinin and only auxins.
(b) higher concentration cytokinin and lower concentration
auxins.
(c) lower concentration of cytokinin and higher
concentration of auxins.
(d) only cytokinin and no auxins.
31. Three crops that contribute maximum to global food grain
production are
(a) Wheat, rice and maize
(b) Wheat, rice and barley
(c) Wheat, maize and sorghum
(d) Rice, maize and sorghum
32. Himgiri developed by hybridisation and selection for disease
resistance against rust pathogens is a variety of
(a) chilli (b) maize
(c) sugarcane (d) wheat
33. Bee dances are meant for
(a) Courtship (b) Communication
(c) Recreation (d) Instinct
34. Artificial insemination involves
(a) super ovulation (b) semen collection
(c) egg collection (d) embryo collection
B-124
DPP/ CB31
35. The term "breed" refers to
(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.
36. What strategy would you suggest if a person wants to
evolve a pureline in an animal?
(a) Cross-breeding (b) Inbreeding
(c) Out-breeding (d) Artificial insemination
37. Select the incorrect statement from the following.
(a) Apiculture provides additional income generating
industry to the farmers.
(b) Bee keeping is labour intensive process.
(c) Bee venom is used to cure certain diseases like gout
and arthritis.
(d) Honey is used as laxative, antiseptic and sedative.
38. Germplasm collection is the collection of
(a) germ cells
(b) semens
(c) plants/seeds with all the diverse alleles for all genes
(d) egg cells
39. Which of the following diseases is caused by virus?
(a) Tobacco mosaic (b) Late blight of potato
(c) Turnip mosaic (d) Both (a) and (c)
40. Single cell protein can be obtained from
(a) bacteria (b) algae
(c) fungi (d) all of these
41. Meristem culture is used
(a) to produce disease free plants
(b) in germplasm conservation
(c) in rapid clonal multiplication
(d) all of these
42. A plant cell without cell wall is called
(a) proplast (b) protoplast
(c) nucleoplasm (d) explant
43. Refer the given figures and answer the questions.
Which of the following statements is correct regarding the
above figures?
(i) These are all Indian hy brid crops of low yielding varieties.
(ii) These are all Indian hy brid crops of high y ielding v arieties.
(iii) The production of the above crops led to dramatic in-
crease in food production.
(iv) These crops are produced as a result of various plants
breeding technique.
(a) (i), (ii), and (iii) (b) (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(c) (iii) and (iv) only (d) (i) and (iii) only
44. Match Column - I with Column - II
Column-I Column-II
A. Hybrid variety (I). X-ray
B . Mutation (II). Allopolyploidy
C . Pure line (III). F
1
 generation
D. Triticale (IV). Selection in self
pollinated crops
(V). Genetic engineering
(a) A-(III); B-(II); C-(I); D-(IV)
(b) A-(III); B-(I); C-(IV); D-(II)
(c) A-(I); B-(III); C-(IV); D-(II)
(d) A-(II); B-(I); C-(III); D-(IV)
45. Farmers in a particular region were concerned that pre-mature
yellowing of leaves of a pulse crop might cause decrease in
the yield. Which treatment could be most beneficial to obtain
maximum seed yield ?
(a) Treatment of the plants with cytokinins along with a
small dose of nitrogenous fertilizer
(b) Removal of all yellow leaves and spraying the remaining
green leaves with 2, 4, 5- trichlorophenoxy acetic acid
(c) Application of iron and magnesium to promote
synthesis of chlorophyll
(d) Frequent irrigation of the crop