The examples of crop improvement by mutation breeding include:
A. Artificially induced mutations resulted in increase in yield, reduction in height, insensitivity to day length and resistance to mildew disease in many varieties of barley
B. Mutations in red grained Sonara 64 and Lerma Rojo 64A varieties of wheat resulted Sharbati Sonora and Pusa Lerma respectively
C. X-ray treatment induced semi-dwarfing in rice plants
D. All of the above
Answer: Option D
A piece of DNA molecule that can serve as a carrier for the gene to be cloned is called as a
A. Virus
B. Vector
C. DNA junk
D. Gene factor
A haploid organism contains only one set of chromosomes, and is said to be
A. Homozygous
B. Heterozygous
C. Hemizygous
D. Holozygous
Which of the following is the correct pair?
A. Darwin - Use and disuse of organs
B. de Vries - Mutation theory
C. Lamarck - Origin of life
D. Haldane - Law of heredity

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