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Liger is the offspring of a tiger and a lion and is an example of an animal hybrid.

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Important Questions on Breeding and Biotechnology

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_____ (Hybrid/Natural) seeds are more vigorous, give higher yields and store well.

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Polyploids are characterised by gigantism. Justify your answer.
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Which set of fruits have been modified into seedless varieties by polyploidy breeding technique?
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State whether it is true or false. If false, write the correct statement:

A group of plants produced from single plant through vegetative or asexual reproduction are called a pure line.

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Which method of crop improvement can be practised by a farmer if he is inexperienced? 
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Discuss the method of breeding for disease resistance.
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Rice normally grows well in alluvial soil, but _____ is a rice variety produced by mutation breeding that grows well in saline soil.
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Which of the following is the first man-made cereal hybrid?
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In mutation breeding, Sharbati Sonora wheat was produced from Sonora-64 by using _____.
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State whether it is true or false. If false, write the correct statement:

Raphano brassica is a man-made tetraploid produced by colchicine treatment.

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State whether it is true or false. If false, write the correct statement:

The process of producing an organism with more than two sets of chromosomes is called mutation.

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When two or more plants are crossed for bringing their desired characters together in one progeny is called a _____.
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In a hexaploid wheat (2n = 6x = 42) the haploid (n) and the basic (x) number of chromosomes respectively are
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The scientific process which produces crop plants enriched with desirable nutrients is called_____.
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_____is the chemical used for doubling the chromosomes.