Plant Breeding and Genetics Quiz 1

A maintainer line is:

A large unit of natural vegetation in an area under identical condition (climatic) is called:

A hybrid is always:

A homozygous line developed by self-fertilization in a cross-pollinated crop is termed as:

A head or capitulum's is characteristic of:

A fruit, which is collection of simple fruits developing from the apocarpous pistil of a flower, is known as:

A fruit, which develops from an inflorescence, is known as:

A cybrid is:

A condition in which pollination and fertilization take place in an unopened flower is termed as:

"If a gene is represented in an infinitely large random-mating population by adaptively neutral alleles, A and a, in the ration of qA: (1-q)2 aa = 1" is known as:

2n denotes:

2n - 1 is a:

"Experiments in Plant Hybridization" a paper of G. Mendal was first published in the year:

______ are examples of protandrous species:

Radish' is an example of:

______ deteriorates drastically upon inbreeding:

Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection' was given by:

______ in Ladino clover is governed by two dominant alleles, one produces cyanogenic glycoside, while the other releases the enzyme to catalyze its release from gloycoside:

_______provides the best documented example of long time effects of selection:

_______estimated that incompatibility occurs in more than 3,000 species among 20 families of the flowering plants: