IBPS Agriculture Officer Quiz – 5

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1. A water-fern, which is used as a green manure in rice fields, is?
a) Salvinia
b) Mucor
c) Aspergillus
d) Azolla

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Answer d) Azolla

2. Green manure plants used by farmers mainly belong to family?
a) compositae
b) leguminosae
c) solanaceae
d) poaceae

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Answer b) leguminosae

3. Which one among the following chemicals is used for causing defoliation of forest trees?
a) Posphon D
b) Malic hydrazide
c) 2, 4-D
d) Amo 1618

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Answer c) 2, 4-D

4. Water logging of soil makes it physiologically dry because?
a) this condition does not allow the capillary force to work
b) this condition does not allow oxygen to enter the soil
c) both (a) and (b)
d) none of these

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Answer b) this condition does not allow oxygen to enter the soil

5. Which one of the following is natural insecticide?
a) pyrethrum
b) nicotine
c) both (a) and (b)
d) none of these

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Answer c) both (a) and (b)

6. Which of the following is an example of a weed of rabi season that infest wheat crop?
a) Chenopodium
b) Motha
c) Jangali jowar
d) None of the above

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Answer a) Chenopodium

7. First bioinsecticide developed on commercial scale was?
a) quinine
b) DDT
c) organophosphate
d) sporeine

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Answer d) sporeine

8. Norin-l0 gene from Japan is a?
a) dwarf gene of wheat
b) dwarf gene of maize
c) dwarf gene of rice
d) disease resistant gene of rice

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Answer a) dwarf gene of wheat

9. A plant breeder waists to develop a disease resistant variety. What should he do first??
a) Hybridisation
b) Mutation
c) Selection
d) Production of crop

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Answer c) Selection

10. Selection of homozygous plant is?
a) pure line selection
b) mass selection
c) mixed selection
d) introduction

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Answer a) pure line selection

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