Tissue Culture
Tissue Culture: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Plant Tissue Culture, Cellular Totipotency, Pollen Culture & Protoplast Culture etc.
Important Questions on Tissue Culture
A banana plant is virus-infected. Name the part of the plant that would be free of a virus.
Which of the following technology is/are used for crop improvement?
Somaclonal variation appears in
Somaclonal variation can be obtained by
Haploid cultures can be obtained by culturing
Cellular totipotency was demonstrated by:
Match List - I with List.-II.
| List-I | List-II | ||
| (a) | Protoplast fusion | (i) | Totipotency |
| (b) | Plant tissue culture | (ii) | Pomato |
| (c) | Meristem culture | (iii) | Somaclones |
| (d) | Micropropagation | (iv) | Virus free plants |
Select the correct answer from the options given below.
Which of the following is not true for somatic cell hybridisation?
Identify the correct staments related to protoplast culture
Identify the plants that are commercially propagated on a large scale using micropropagation
Virus free plants cannot be developed from
Identify the correct statement about Micro propagation
Which of the following explains that the production of transgenic plants is easier than the production of transgenic animals?
Chlorella and Spirulina are used as a source of high protein food.
Single-cell protein is the process of propagation of single cells in an artificial nutrient medium.
What do you understand by single-cell protein? Give some examples of the microorganisms used for such purpose.
Which of the following is/are true about somatic hybridisation?
The enzymes that help in the digestion of the cell wall during protoplast culture are
Name some microbes which are cultivated as single cell protein.
The method of asexual reproduction in plants in which callus is produced is
