ICAR (JRF) General Agriculture Question Paper – 2007 ( Mock Test)

1. During 2007–08, contribution of agriculture sector in national GDP was :

A) 2.3%

B) 3.0%

C) 4.5%

D) 6.2%

2. The specific heat of normal water is :

A) 2 Cal/g

B) 3 Cal/g

C) 1 Cal/g

D) 10 Cal/g

3. Growth of plants towards earth due to the force of gravity is known as :

A) Geotropism

B) Parthogeotropism

C) Diageotropism

D) Plagiotropism

4. In 1930s, late blight of potato occurred from :

A) Egypt

B) Sri Lanka

C) Europe

D) USA

5. The Law of Minimum was proposed by :

A) Liebig

B) Blackman

C) Emerson

D) Watson

6. ANOVA table as well as Null Hypothesis was proposed by :

A) Arnon & Stout

B) Karl Pearson

C) R. A. Fisher

D) Emerson

7. The causal organism for Karnal bunt is :

A) Urocystis tritici

B) Ustilago tritici

C) Tilletia foetida

D) Neovossia indica

8. Which of the following is/are varieties of pea?

A) Bonneville

B) Early Badger

C) Arkel

D) All of these

9. The varieties of wheat are :

A) Long day plants

B) Day neutral plants

C) Short day plants

D) None of these

10. The simplest measure of dispersion is :

A) Mean

B) Mode

C) Median

D) Range

11. The crop having highest pesticide consumption in India is :

A) Cotton

B) Tea

C) Rice

D) Wheat

12. Which one is a basic amino acid?

A) Lysine

B) Methionine

C) Glutamine

D) Glycine

13. The principle of making use of greater homogeneity in groups of experimental units to reduce experimental error is called :

A) Local or error control

B) Standard error

C) Replication

D) Randomization

14. The inflorescence of sugarcane is :

A) Raceme

B) Spike

C) Arrow

D) Siliqua

15. The country having maximum area under hybrid rice is :

A) USA

B) India

C) Malaysia

D) China

16. Greenhouse gas having highest contribution to global warming is :

A) NO₂

B) CO₂

C) CH₄

D) SO₃

17. The transgenic crop having maximum cultivated area in the world is :

A) Wheat

B) Maize

C) Soybean

D) Cotton

18. Edible portion of guava is :

A) Thalamus

B) Aril

C) Calyx

D) Bracts

19. Vertisol is related to :

A) Laterite soil

B) Red soil

C) Alluvial soil

D) Black soil

20. Standard deviation is the square root of :

A) Median

B) Variance

C) Regression

D) Mean deviation

21. Rice is deficient in the amino acid :

A) Alanine

B) Cystine

C) Isoleucine

D) Lysine

22. The entire gene sequence of _____ is completely known :

A) Wheat

B) Sugarcane

C) Rice

D) Sorghum

23. Number of histone proteins contained in nucleosome core is :

A) Two

B) Three

C) Four

D) Five

24. Total geographical area of India is :

A) 328.9 million hectare

B) 328.9 lakh hectare

C) 328.9 million kilometres

D) 328.9 million square metres

25. When the fertility gradient of the field is in two directions, the most appropriate experimental design is :

A) RBD

B) CRD

C) SPD

D) LSD

26. Khaira disease in rice is caused due to deficiency of :

A) Zn

B) Fe

C) Ca

D) Mn

27. Nitrogen content in urea is :

A) 46%

B) 21%

C) 33%

D) 50%

28. State having maximum productivity in sugarcane is :

A) Maharashtra

B) Punjab

C) Karnataka

D) Tamil Nadu

29. An ideotype of rice was proposed by :

A) Donald

B) Jennings

C) Johanssen

D) Watson

30. Net cultivated area in India is :

A) 142 Mha

B) 328.9 Mha

C) 120 Mha

D) 42.8 Mha

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