Agronomy Mcqs - Set 4

1)   There has been emphasis on the conservation of wild relatives of cultivated plants because wild plants________________?

a. Grow better then cultivated plants
b. Serve, as valuable fodder plants
c. Needed to understand the origin of cu;cultivated plants
d. Carrying many useful genes which are lost in cultivated plants
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Carrying many useful genes which are lost in cultivated plants

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2)   The process of converting food nutrients to carbohydrates in plants is called________________?

a. Metabolism
b. Photosynthesis
c. Absorption
d. Assimilation
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ANSWER: Photosynthesis

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3)   Plants which change from the vegetative to the reproductive stage by producing flowers and fruits when the day become longer is called________________?

a. Long day plants
b. Short day plants
c. Photoperiod
d. Phototropism
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Long day plants

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4)   When crop plants adopt to a new environment are called___________________?

a. Accaumatization
b. Domestication
c. Selection
d. Introduction
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ANSWER: Accaumatization

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5)   The organisms which do not prepare their own food and depend on the dead organisms are called_____________________?

a. Saprophytes
b. Parasites
c. Obligatory parasites
d. Bacteria
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ANSWER: Parasites

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6)   The cotton plant sheds more fruits mainly due to_________________?

a. More number of irrigations
b. Higher temperature
c. Higher dose of fertilizer
d. Insects and pest
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ANSWER: Higher temperature

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7)   Dwarf varieties of wheat are more resistance to_______________?

a. Disease
b. Insect pest
c. Lodging
d. Viruses
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ANSWER: Lodging

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8)   Yield losses of rice crop due to weed infestation are___________________?

a. 10-20%
b. 5-15%
c. 20-50%
d. 20-60%
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ANSWER: 20-60%

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9)   Wheat is predominantly________________?

a. Self pollinated crop
b. Often cross pollinated crop
c. Cross pollinated crop
d. Apomictie crop
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ANSWER: Self pollinated crop

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10)   Growing more then one crop in a season in the same land is called________________?

a. Monocropping
b. Double cropping
c. Intensive cropping
d. Intercropping
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Intensive cropping

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11)   A condition of green plants in which they become unhealthy and pale fellow in colour is known as_________________?

a. Chromoplast
b. Leucoplast
c. Chlorosis
d. Chromoplast
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ANSWER: Chlorosis

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12)   The crop which are cultivated for grain purposes are called_________________?

a. Fodder crops
b. Cereal crops
c. Fiber crops
d. Leguminous crops
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cereal crops

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13)   The best soil for cotton cultivation is_________________?

a. Sandy soil
b. Loamy soil
c. Silty soil
d. Clay loam soil
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Clay loam soil

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14)   The herb plants have___________________?

a. Woody stem
b. Non-woody stem
c. Trunk
d. All the above
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ANSWER: Non-woody stem

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15)   Water courses are lined to avoid_________________?

a. Transpiration
b. Evaporation
c. Seepage
d. Erosion
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ANSWER: Seepage

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16)   Progeny of nucleus seed is called_________________?

a. Basic seed
b. Breeder seed
c. Foundation seed
d. All the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Breeder seed

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17)   Use of tetrazolium staining for assessment of seed quality was suggested by________________?

a. Woodstock (1973)
b. Moore (1973)
c. Maguire (1962)
d. Germ (1950)
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Moore (1973)

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18)   A method of control of pests in which natural predators and parasites are used without causing serious adverse environmental side effects is called_________________?

a. IPM
b. Allelopathy
c. Insect control
d. Chemical control
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: IPM

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19)   The transport of a substance across a biological membrane against a concentration gradient is called___________________?

a. Passive transport
b. Active transport
c. Absorption
d. Dissolution
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Active transport

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20)   Number of crops grown on the same piece of land in a year and expressed in percentage is known as_______________?

a. Cropping pattern
b. Cropping index
c. Crop rotation
d. Cropping intensity
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cropping index

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