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- Question
What is/are the benefit(s) of micropropagation or clonal propagation?
Options- A. Rapid multiplication of superior clones
- B. Multiplication of disease free plants
- C. Multiplication of sexually derived sterile hybrids
- D. All of the above
- Correct Answer
- All of the above
- 1. Subculturing is similar to propagation by cuttings because
Options- A. it separates multiple microshoots and places them in a medium
- B. it uses scions to produce new microshoots
- C. they both use in vitro growing conditions
- D. all of the above Discuss
- 2. Which method of plant propagation involves the use of girdling?
Options- A. Grafting
- B. Cuttings
- C. Layering
- D. Micropropagation Discuss
- 3. When plated only in nutrient medium, how much time is required for the protoplast to synthesize new cell wall?
Options- A. 2-5 days
- B. 5-10 days
- C. 10-15 days
- D. 15-17 days Discuss
- 4. The ability of the component cells of callus to form a whole plant is known as
Options- A. redifferentiation
- B. dedifferentiation
- C. either (a) or (b)
- D. none of these Discuss
- 5. Protoplasts can be produced from suspension cultures, callus tissues or intact tissues by enzymatic treatment with
Options- A. cellulotyic enzymes
- B. pectolytic enzymes
- C. both cellulotyic and pectolytic enzymes
- D. proteolytic enzymes Discuss
- 6. Agrobacterium based gene transfer is efficient
Options- A. only with dicots
- B. only with monocots
- C. with both monocots and dicots
- D. with majority monocots and few dicots Discuss
- 7. In a callus culture
Options- A. increasing level of cytokinin to a callus induces shoot formation and increasing level of auxin promote root formation
- B. increasing level of auxin to a callus induces shoot formation and increasing level of cytokinin promote root formation
- C. auxins and cytokinins are not required
- D. only auxin is required for root and shoot formation Discuss
- 8. What is meant by 'Organ culture'?
Options- A. Maintenance alive of a whole organ, after removal from the organism by partial immersion in a nutrient fluid
- B. Introduction of a new organ in an animal body with a view to create genetic mutation in the progenies of that animal
- C. Cultivation of organs in a laboratory through the synthesis of tissues
- D. The aspects of culture in community which are mainly dedicated by the need of a specified organ of the human body Discuss
- 9. Organogenesis is
Options- A. formation of callus tissue
- B. formation of root and shoots on callus tissue
- C. both (a) and (b)
- D. genesis of organs Discuss
- 10. A(n) __________ is an excised piece of leaf or stem tissue used in micropropagation.
Options- A. microshoot
- B. medium
- C. explant
- D. scion Discuss
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Correct Answer: it separates multiple microshoots and places them in a medium
Correct Answer: Layering
Correct Answer: 5-10 days
Correct Answer: redifferentiation
Correct Answer: both cellulotyic and pectolytic enzymes
Correct Answer: only with dicots
Correct Answer: increasing level of cytokinin to a callus induces shoot formation and increasing level of auxin promote root formation
Correct Answer: Maintenance alive of a whole organ, after removal from the organism by partial immersion in a nutrient fluid
Correct Answer: formation of root and shoots on callus tissue
Correct Answer: explant
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