NEET Biology question

Biology Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production NEET

Not in NEET syllabus

In plant breeding programmes, the entire collection of (plants/seeds) having all the diverse alleles for all genes in a given crop is called:

(A)Cross-hybridisation among the selected parents
(B)Evaluation and selection of parents
(C)Germplasm collectionCorrect
(D)Selection of superior recombinants

Answer: (C)

Solution

As in Q127, this complete collection of diverse genetic material of a crop is called germplasm collection, so the correct answer is (c).

Question ID VK-123692