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Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Plant breeding is the ______________ of plants in order to create desired plant types.

a)

Breeding

b)

Manipulation

c)

Crossing

2.

The entire collection (of plants/seeds) having all the diverse alleles for all genes in a given crop is called

a)

Protoplasm

b)

Collection of variability

c)

Germplasm collection

d)

Plant collection

3.

Breeding for disease resistance requires

a)

a good source of resistance

b)

Planned hybridisation

c)

Diseases test

d)

all of these

4.

The new varieties of plants are produced by

a)

Introduction and mutation

b)

Selection and hybridisation

c)

Mutation and Selection

d)

Selection and Introduction

5.

The noble-laureate that successfully crossed and produced the semi dwarf wheat hybrid is :

a)

Norman E Borulag

b)

M.S. Swaminathan

c)

Kalyan Sona

d)

Jaya Ratna

6.

The rice crop hybrids that were produced in India are:

a)

Ratna

b)

IR – 8

c)

Sonalika

d)

Jaya

7.

The botanical name of Sugarcane is:

a)

Oryza sativum

b)

Saccharum barberi

c)

Pisum Sativum

d)

Triticum

8.

Backrossing involves crossing

a)

Parent and parent

b)

Hybrid and hybrid

c)

Parent and hybrid

9.

Agriculture accounts for __________ per cent of India's GDP

a)

62

b)

30

c)

33

d)

70

10.

Agriculture accounts for __________ per cent of India's GDP

a)

62

b)

30

c)

33

d)

70

11.

The botanical name of Sugarcane is:

a)

Oryza sativum

b)

Saccharum barberi

c)

Pisum Sativum

d)

Triticum

12.

If a double stranded DNA has 20% of cytosine, what will be the percentage of adenine in it?

a)

20%

b)

40%

c)

30%

d)

60%

13.

If the sequence of bases in one strand of DNA is ATGCATGCA what would be the sequence of bases on complementary strand?

a)

ATGCATGCA

b)

AUGCAUGCA

c)

TACTACGT

d)

UACGUACGU

14.

Which of the following phenomena was experimentally proved by Meselson and Stahl?

a)

Transformation

b)

Transduction

c)

Semi conversative DNA replication

d)

Central dogma

15.

Which non radioactive isotope was used by Meselson and Stahl in their experiments?

a)

32 P

b)

35 S

c)

15 N

d)

None

16.

Which one of the following condition can cause pneumonia in mice?

a)

Injection of R strain into mice.

b)

Injection of heat killed R strain into mice along with heat killed S strain.

c)

Injection of heat killed S strain into mice.

d)

Injection of live S strain into mice or heat killed S strain along with live R strain.

17.

Who discovered the process of transformation and on which species was it done?

a)

Frederich Miescher, Streptococcus pneumoniae

b)

Frederick Griffith, Streptococcus pneumoniae

c)

Alfred Hershey, T2 Bacteriophage

d)

Martha Chase, T2 bacteriophage

18.

The isotopes used by Hershey and Chase to prove that DNA is the genetic material R

a)

P32 and S35

b)

P35 and S32

c)

N15 and N15

d)

N14 and N15

19.

During biochemical characterization of transforming principle, the digestion with _______ did inhibit transformation suggesting that DNA caused the transformation.

a)

DNAase

b)

Protease

c)

RNAase

d)

DNA polymerase

20.

The main differences between RNA and DNA in its structure are

a)

The pentose sugar in RNA is ribose and it contains thymine.

b)

The pentose sugar in RNA is deoxyribose and it contains cytosine.

c)

The pentose sugar in RNA is deoxyribose and it contains uracil.

d)

The pentose sugar in RNA is ribose and it contains uracil.

21.

Which of the following region(s) does not code for any proteins?

(i) Introns

(ii) Exons

(iii) VNTRs

a)

Only i and iii

b)

Only ii and iii

c)

Only i

d)

All i, ii and iii

22.

tRNA is present corresponding to each of the following specified codons, except the codon

a)

UUU

b)

UGG

c)

AUG

d)

UGA

23.

Splicing is one of the steps of post-transcriptional modifications which occurs in

a)

Nucleus

b)

Cytoplasm

c)

ER

d)

Ribosomes

24.

If there are 999 bases in an RNA that codes for a protein with 333 amino acids, and the base at position 901 is deleted such that the length of the RNA becomes 998 bases, how many codons will be altered?

a)

11

b)

33

c)

333

d)

1

25.

What is the function of primer

a)

To help DNA polymerase for initiation

b)

To help RNA polymerase for initiation

c)

To help DNA polymerase for termination

d)

To help RNA polymerase for termination

26.

During DNA replication, Okazaki fragments are used to elongate

a)

the lagging strand towards replication fork

b)

the leading strand away from replication fork

c)

the lagging strand away from the replication fork

d)

he leading strand towards replication fork.

27.

How many significant figures are present in 0.0025

a)

Two

b)

Three

c)

Four

d)

Five

28.

How many atoms of magnesium are present in 96u of Magnesium

a)

0.25

b)

25

c)

4

d)

0.4

29.

The volume of 1.7g of NH3 at STP (273K, 1atm) is

a)

1.7L

b)

2.24L

c)

2.8L

d)

3.4L

30.

Number of moles present in 22.0g of carbondioxide is

a)

2

b)

22

c)

0.5

d)

0.25

31.

If the density of a solution is 4.5g/mL, the mass of 1.4mL solution in significant figure is

a)

3.21g

b)

4.5g

c)

0.63g

d)

6.3g

32.

The reactant which is entirely consumed when a reaction goes to completion is called

(a)  

33.

Which is more informative?

a)

Empirical Formula

b)

Molecular Formula

34.

Mass percent of phosphorus in calcium phosphate is

a)

38.71%

b)

20%

c)

41.29%

d)

28%

35.

(a)   refers to the agreement of a particular value to the true value of the result.