MCQ On General Agriculture - 4

1. How many member countries there in WTO from initial to till January, 2007
   (A) 149 (B) 150 ✅ (C) 145 (D)190

2. Random or free segregation of chromosomes and genes during gamete formation is known as
   (A) Incomplete dominance (B) Law of independent assortment ✅ (C) Law of purity of gametes (D) Law of segregation

3. OBA blood group controlled by
   (A) Pseudo allele (B) Dominant allele (C) Recessive allele (D) Multiple allele ✅

4. Citrus canker is caused by
   (A) Bacteria ✅ (B) Fungi (C) Nematodes (D) Algae

5. Which one is not a monosaccharide in nature?
   (A) Lactose ✅ (B) Galactose (C) Glucose (D) Ribulose

6. Availability of which form of P is highest at pH 6.7
   (A) H₂PO₄ ✅ (B) HPO₄ (C) PO₄ (D) None

7. Conservation tillage saves
   (A) Soil (B) Moisture (C) Time (D) All ✅

8. Nobel Prize for microcredit was given to
   (A) Mohammad Yunus ✅ (B) N.E. Borlaug (C) V.S. Naipaul (D) None of these

9. Which is formula of leaf area index?
   (A) Leaf area / ground area ✅ (B) Leaf area / leaf dry weight (C) Ground area / leaf area (D) Leaf area / area duration

10. Pureline theory was given by
    (A) Bateson (B) Johannsen ✅ (C) Lamarck (D) Wolf

11. Exanthema disease is caused by deficiency of
    (A) Mn (B) Zn (C) Fe (D) Cu ✅

12. Contribution of animal husbandry in agriculture GDP is
    (A) 17% ✅ (B) 27% (C) 37% (D) 47%

13. In which type of soil low permeability is present
    (A) Alkali ✅ (B) Saline (C) Acidic (D) None

14. Which is a P solubilizing bacterium?
    (A) PSB ✅ (B) VAM (C) Clostridium (D) Azotobacter

15. Which is natural genetic engineer?
    (A) Xanthomonas citri (B) Agrobacterium tumifaciens ✅ (C) Azotobacter (D) Clostridium

16. In maize first product formed during photosynthesis is
    (A) Oxalic acid ✅ (B) Malic acid (C) PGA (D) Aspartic acid

17. Which amino acid is positively charged?
    (A) Aspartate (B) Lysine ✅ (C) Methionine (D) Glycine

18. Translocation of nutrient and water through xylem is due to
    (A) Suction (B) Bundle sheath cell ✅ (C) Transpiration pulls (D) Guard cell

19. Who was the chairman of Farmer’s Commission till December, 2006
    (A) V.L. Chopra (B) R.S. Paroda (C) M.S. Swaminathan ✅ (D) Sompal Shastri

20. Which instrument used for land levelling
    (A) Pusa leveller (B) Laser leveller (C) Bhopal leveller ✅ (D) None of these

21. Water held between 1/3 bar to 31 bars in the soil is classified as
    (A) Gravitational water (B) Capillary water ✅ (C) Hygroscopic water (D) Available water

22. Chlorpyriphos belongs to which group
    (A) Chlorinated hydrocarbons (B) Carbamates (C) Organophosphate ✅ (D) Synthetic pyrethroids

23. Why rice grows easily under submerged condition
    (A) Deep root system (B) O₂ transfer from stem to root ✅ (C) Hydroponic in nature (D) None of these

24. What is critical difference?
    (A) Standard error of difference (B) Standard error of mean ✅ (C) SEm × t value at e.d.f. (D) SEm × √2 × t value at e.d.f.

25. Global warming potential of methane (CH₄) in comparison to CO₂ is ____ (times)
    (A) 1 (B) 310 (C) 21 ✅ (D) 4,000

26. Father of hybrid rice
    (A) Y.L. Ping ✅ (B) B.P. Paul (C) Maheshwari (D) Barber

27. A day neutral plant is
    (A) Maize ✅ (B) Wheat (C) Barley (D) Rice

28. Famous Indian pathologist, extensively studied cereal rust
    (A) K.C. Mehta ✅ (B) Sadasivan (C) Flor (D) None

29. Which represents median?
    (A) Second quartile (B) 5th decile (C) 50th percentile (D) All ✅

30. The relation between AM, GM, HM
    (A) AM > GM > HM ✅ (B) GM > HM > AM (C) GM < HM < AM (D) Any one