GPB611 (2+1) Marker Assisted Selection for Crop Improvement

 

UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, RAICHUR

College of Agriculture, Raichur
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding
Marker Assisted Selection for Crop Improvement GPB611 (2+1)
Final Examination 2019-20
Marks: 35

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I. Fill in the blanks:

1. The expanded form of NCBI is National Center for Biotechnology Information

2. QTL term coined by Gelderman

3. Saramis is a database for Pigeonpea / Pulses / cereal crops

4. LOD is logarithm of odds

5. Combining interval mapping with regression analysis for QTL mapping is Composite Interval Mapping

6. The size of nano particle is 1 to 100 nanometers

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II. Match the following:

A	B
1. Dry lab	4. Bioinformatics
2. DNA barcoding	1. Cytochrome oxidase
3. mRNA	6. Transcriptomics
4. Nanotechnology	2. Bottom-up approach
5. Fingerprinting	3. VNTRs
6. Genomic selection	5. Training population

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III. Write briefly on the following:

1. KASP

2. Quantitative Disease Resistance

3. RFLP

4. DNA barcoding

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IV. Answer the following:

1. Explain Single Marker Approach and Simple Interval Mapping.

2. What are factors affecting QTL mapping.

3. Explain AB-QTL method.

4. What is marker validation and QTL validation.

5. How bioinformatics can be used in crop improvement.

6. Write a note on nanobiotechnology.

7. Compare MARS and MAS.

8. Write advantages of Genomic selection.

9. Write advantages and disadvantages of association mapping.