agriculture MCQs – Page 74

Practise multiple-choice questions from agriculture for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

1461. Growing of vegetables for the consumption of local market and large center is_________________?
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A. Market gardening

B. Olericulture

C. Truck gardening

D. Home gardening

1462. A normal plant suddenly started reproducing parthengentically. the number of chromosomes of the second generation compared to the parent plant will be____________________?
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A. One fourth

B. One half

C. Same

D. Double

1463. A science which deals with classification of plants is called___________________?
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A. Histology

B. Ecology

C. Morphology

D. Taxonomy
1464. Guava, tomato, ber and melons are rich in__________________?
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A. Vitamin D

B. Vitamin C

C. Vitamin A

D. Vitamin B

1465. Organic evolution through large discontinuous variations was propound by__________________?
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A. Huge and Vnes

B. Mendel

C. Darwin

D. Lamak

1466. A technique which involves separating vegetative parts like rhizome offset, corns and sucker from the parent plant is called_________________?
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A. Stool layering

B. Root cutting

C. Mound layering

D. Division
1467. In bhindi, production of foundation seed needs and isolation distance_________________?
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A. 50 meters

B. 100 meters

C. 200 meters

D. 3 meters

1468. Synopsis occur in___________________?
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A. Meiosis

B. Amitosis

C. Mitosis

D. all the above

1469. Banana belongs to type of fruit where the edible portion is ___________________?
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A. Mesocarp

B. Sycoms

C. Berry

D. Drup

1470. Degeneration and death of aerial plant parts is called___________________?
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A. Senescence

B. Partial Senescence

C. Maturity

D. Both a & b

1471. If a haploid chromosome number of a gymnosperm is 12 the chromosome in its endosperm will be__________________?
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A. 36

B. 12

C. 6

D. 24

1472. Phoenix dactylifera belongs to the family___________________?
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A. Palmeae

B. Rutaceae

C. Pomaceae

D. Anacardiaceae

1473. Ethylene has horticulture uses such as___________________?
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A. Initiating flowers

B. Changing the green color of fruits

C. All the above

D. Inducing fruit maturity

1474. The most popular and common method of laying out orchard on flat ground is_________________?
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A. Square system

B. Triangular system

C. Quincunx system

D. Rectangular system

1475. Mango propagation is more successful by_______________________?
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A. Shield budding

B. Grafting

C. T-budding

D. Cutting

1476. Mutation breeding is mostly used in____________________?
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A. Vegetative propagated crops

B. Cross pollinated crops

C. Self pollinated crops

D. Often cross pollinated crops

1477. Which one of the following horticultural plants is well known for its cooling effect _______________________?
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A. Sweet lime

B. All the above

C. Falsa

D. Jaman

1478. Plants which shed their leaves during winter are___________________?
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A. annuals

B. deciduous

C. Evergreen

D. Monoecious

1479. Self incompatibility is used for hybrid seed production in______________________?
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A. Maize

B. Tomato

C. Cabbage

D. Rice

1480. Heat requirement to change 1 Kg of a substance at its boiling point from the liquid to vapour is called__________________?
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A. Heat energy

B. Heat of vaporization

C. Heat of fusion

D. Mechanical heat