MCQ on Plant Biotechnology for various Agriculture Exams

1. …………………… known as father of plant tissue culture.
   (a) Haberlandt
   (b) Robbins
   (c) White
   (d) Miller

2. The hormone 'Kinetin' was discovered by
   (a) Melchers et al.
   (b) Miller et al.
   (c) Power
   (d) Braun

3. The meristem culture technique is developed by
   (a) Morel and Martin
   (b) Murashige
   (c) Webber
   (d) Redenbergh

4. Karl Ereky basically which of the following
   (a) Hungarian Engineering
   (b) Italian scientist
   (c) Hungarian Biochemist
   (d) Hungarian Biotechnologist

5. Biotechnology is the use of biological agent
   (a) Open
   (b) Controlled
   (c) Accessible
   (d) Limited

6. The term totipotency was coined by
   (a) Morgan
   (b) Volchting
   (c) Tulecke
   (d) White

7. Van Overbeek (1941) was used which natural plant product for growth of immature embryo
   (a) Coconut milk
   (b) Liquid endosperm
   (c) Plant endosperm
   (d) Both A and B

8. First haploid plants were produced from pollen grain of datura by
   (a) Power et al.
   (b) Guha and Maheshwari
   (c) Guha
   (d) Maheshwari

9. The first embryo culture were developed by …….
   (a) Tracul
   (b) White
   (c) Henning
   (d) Robbin

10. The term somaclonal variation was introduced by
    (a) Takebe
    (b) Larkin
    (c) Larkin and Scowcroft
    (d) Scowcroft