BHU PET – 2018 Postgraduate Entrance Test (Banaras Hindu University)

 

1. Onion production is related to ______
   (a) Silver revolution
   (b) Pink revolution
   (c) Blue revolution
   (d) Golden revolution

2. Weed index indicates ______
   (a) Herbicide efficiency
   (b) Yield reduction
   (c) Herbicide activity
   (d) Herbicide toxicity

3. Rice plants prefer absorption of N fertilizer in form of ______
   (a) NO₃
   (b) NO₂
   (c) NH₄
   (d) NH₂

4. The term ‘Sailage’ includes ______
   (a) Hay
   (b) Silage
   (c) Concentrate
   (d) Green fodder

5. The only metallic element present in chlorophyll is ______
   (a) N
   (b) Mg
   (c) K
   (d) Ca

6. The net assimilation rate is expressed in terms of ______
   (a) g cm⁻² day⁻¹
   (b) g g⁻¹ ha⁻¹
   (c) g g⁻¹ day⁻¹
   (d) gcm² ha⁻¹

7. Nitrate levels in drinking water above ______ mg per litre are considered as a human health hazard
   (a) 5
   (b) 10
   (c) 15
   (d) 20

8. Mustard crop planted at a spacing of 50 20 cm will have plants/ha
   (a) 75,0000
   (b) 1,00,000
   (c) 1,25,000
   (d) 1,50,000

9. Which of the following is a method of indirect measurement of soil moisture?
   (a) Neutron moisture meter
   (b) Electron moisture meter
   (c) Positron moisture meter
   (d) Proton moisture meter

10. The irrigation requirement (IR) is equal to ______
    (a) WR – (ER-S)
    (b) WR – (ER+S)
    (c) WR + (ER-S)
    (d) WR + (ER +S)

11. The law of diminishing return was proposed by ______
    (a) Mitscherlich
    (b) Wilcox
    (c) Blackman
    (d) Van Liebig

12. A cropping system where the land is handed over the succeeding crop before the harvest of standing crop is termed as ______
    (a) Ratoon cropping
    (b) Relay cropping
    (c) Sequence cropping
    (d) Intercropping

13. Byproduct after cream separation process is ______
    (a) Whey
    (b) Butter milk
    (c) Lassi
    (d) Skim milk

14. Lowest fat is found in the milk of ______
    (a) Jersey
    (b) Sahiwal
    (c) Holstein fresian
    (d) Red Sindhi

15. Protein in milk is called ______
    (a) Zein
    (b) Keratin
    (c) Casein
    (d) Callagen

16. Specific gravity of milk on addition of water
    (a) Increases
    (b) Decreases
    (c) Remain unchanged
    (d) Sometime decrease sometime increases

17. Origin of Sahiwal breed of cow is from
    (a) India
    (b) Pakistan
    (c) Sri Lanka
    (d) Vietnam

18. Chief carbohydrate in milk is called
    (a) Glucose
    (b) Lactose
    (c) Maltose
    (d) Sucrose

19. Colostrum is
    (a) First milk drawn after parturition
    (b) Milk of first parturition
    (c) Milk after two weeks of parturition
    (d) Only Buffaloes’ milk

20. Temperature for homogenization of milk
    (a) 30 for 30 minutes
    (b) 65 for 30 minutes
    (c) 90 for 30 minutes
    (d) 110 for 30 minutes

21. Iron in milk is
    (a) Rich
    (b) Poor
    (c) Balanced
    (d) Absent

22. Iodine is used in milk for detecting adulteration for
    (a) Water
    (b) Starch
    (c) Cow’s milk in buffalo’s milk
    (d) Plant fat

23. In artificial insemination
    (a) Embryo is transferred
    (b) Ovum is transferred
    (c) Semen is harvested
    (d) In vitro fertilization

24. Milk of cow is yellowish due to
    (a) Vitamin A
    (b) Xanthene
    (c) Natural pigment
    (d) Carotene

25. Which of the following is a poverty alleviation programme?
    (a) PMGSY
    (b) DPAP
    (c) CAPART
    (d) NREGP

26. Individual who takes the responsibility of creating innovation of any kind from within the organization
    (a) Ultrapreneur
    (b) Intrapreneur
    (c) Entrepreneur
    (d) Pseudopreneur

27. Communication involves three phases, expression, interpretation and
    (a) Reception
    (b) Response
    (c) Transmission
    (d) Reselection

28. According to Barnard, a leader performs the following functions
    (a) Determination of objectives
    (b) Manipulation of means
    (c) Control of instrumentality of action
    (d) All of the above

29. The reinforcement of an innovation decision making occurs at
    (a) Decision stage
    (b) Knowledge stage
    (c) Persuasion stage
    (d) Confirmation stage

30. Innovators have a salient feature associated with them. It is
    (a) Respectable
    (b) Venturesome
    (c) Deliberate
    (d) Skeptical

31. Adopter category is based on
    (a) Education
    (b) Innovation
    (c) Innovativeness
    (d) Awareness

32. A farmer can become an entrepreneur by
    (a) Adopting a new technology
    (b) By considering his farm as business operation
    (c) Learning new method of agriculture
    (d) Developing a new practice

33. A social process through cultural difference between two or more societies disappear and develop a common culture is called
    (a) Assimilation
    (b) Accommodation
    (c) Sanskritisation
    (d) Diffusion

34. Communication is
    (a) Telling something
    (b) Verbal process
    (c) Non vernal process
    (d) Both verbal and non verbal process

35. ______ is an idea, practice or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption.
    (a) Communication
    (b) Diffusion
    (c) Innovation
    (d) Invention

36. The person who leaves the ventures as soon as venture is created.
    (a) Mobile entrepreneurs
    (b) Managerial entrepreneurs
    (c) Intonative entrepreneurs
    (d) Empire builders

37. The unconsolidated debris overlying the hard, un-weathered bedrock is called as
    (a) Lithosphere
    (b) Pedosphere
    (c) Regolith
    (d) Stratosphere

38. The comprehensive system of soil classification is popularly known as
    (a) 8th Approximation
    (b) 7th Approximation
    (c) 9th Approximation
    (d) 10 Approximation

39. The highest category of soil nomenclature is called as
    (a) Great group
    (b) Order
    (c) Family
    (d) Series

40. Which soil type cover the maximum area in India?
    (a) Red soil
    (b) Alluvial soil
    (c) Black soil
    (d) Laterite soil

41. Which type of clay minerals is dominantly present in vertisols?
    (a) Smectite
    (b) kaolinite
    (c) Halloysite
    (d) Illite

42. Which of the following is an example of 1 : 1 type clay mineral?
    (a) Vermicullite
    (b) Kaolinite
    (c) Talc
    (d) Montmorillonite

43. The essentiality criteria of nutrients was given by
    (a) Arnon and Stout
    (b) Barber
    (c) Cate and Nelson
    (d) Schoefield

44. Luxury consumption is observed in which of the following nutrients
    (a) K
    (b) P
    (c) N
    (d) S

45. Which of the following is the algal symbiont of Azolla responsible for biological N fixation?
    (a) Rhizobium
    (b) Anabaena
    (c) Azotobacter
    (d) Azospirillum

46. Bhindi yellow vein clearing disease is transmitted by
    (a) Aphis gossypii
    (b) Oligonychus indicus
    (c) Bemisia tabaci
    (d) Amrasca devastans

47. Dense webbing of rice grain in storage results due to
    (a) Angoumois grain moth
    (b) Rice moth
    (c) Rice weevil
    (d) Red flour beetle

48. Bee’s wax contains
    (a) Hydroxy methyl furfural
    (b) Myrisyl palmitate
    (c) n-acetyl glucose amine
    (d) Lauryl acetate

49. Epiricania melanoleuca, an ectoparasitoid is effective against
    (a) Sugarcane mealybug
    (b) Sugarcane pyrilla
    (c) Sugarcane whitefly
    (d) Sugarcane scale

50. In which method of planting maximum number of plants per unit area can be accommodated
    (a) Square
    (b) Rectangular
    (c) Hexagonal
    (d) Quincunx

51. A soil is low in available N if the soil organic carbon is in the range of
    (a) < 0.5%
    (b) < 0.75%
    (c) 0.5 – 0.75%
    (d) < 1%

52. In Urea N is present in which form?
    (a) Ammonium
    (b) Nitrate
    (c) Amide
    (d) Nitrite

53. The critical level of nutrient concept was given by
    (a) Olsen
    (b) Cate and Nelson
    (c) Brady
    (d) Darcy

54. Two pairs of antennae are present in
    (a) Insecta
    (b) Crustacea
    (c) Arachinda
    (d) Myriapoda

55. Number of segment present in insect head is
    (a) Two
    (b) Four
    (c) Six
    (d) Seven

56. ‘Silver shoot’ in rice produced by gall midge is a modification of
    (a) Leaf sheath
    (b) Leaf tip
    (c) Stem
    (d) Leaf base

57. Eggs of mango mealy bug are laid in
    (a) Leaf
    (b) Tree trunk
    (c) Crevices
    (d) Soil

58. The non-chitinous layer of insect integument is
    (a) Endocuticle
    (b) Exocuticle
    (c) Epicuticle
    (d) Epidermis

59. In cyclorrhapous dipterans, the fusion of carpora cadiaca’, carpora allata and prothoracic glands is referred to as
    (a) Craber’r organ
    (b) Simpher’s organ
    (c) Weismann’s ring
    (d) Gyroscopic organ

60. Vasiform orifice is a characteristic feature of
    (a) Delphacidae
    (b) Aleyrodidae
    (c) Cercopidae
    (d) Membracidae

61. Universal antidote is the mixture of activated charcoal : tannic acid : MgO in the ratio of
    (a) 2 : 1 : 1
    (b) 1 : 2 : 1
    (c) 1 : 1 : 2
    (d) 1 : 1 : 5 : 2

62. Mango variety which is suitable for high density planting
    (a) Ratna
    (b) Dashehri
    (c) Langra
    (d) Amrapalli

63. Jelly in which fruit peels remain suspended is called as
    (a) Jam
    (b) Cordial
    (c) Marmalade
    (d) Candy

64. Buttoning is the problem in which of the following crops
    (a) Okra
    (b) Cauliflower
    (c) Melon
    (d) Chillies

65. Most economic method of irrigation in orchard under water scarcity condition is
    (a) Sprinkler system
    (b) Drip system
    (c) Ring system
    (d) Flooding system

66. Winter Banana is a variety of
    (a) Apple
    (b) Mango
    (c) Banana
    (d) Pear

67. Where does India rank in production of fruits in the world?
    (a) First
    (b) Second
    (c) Third
    (d) Fourth

68. Which one of the following is quickest method of establishing a lawn?
    (a) Dibbling
    (b) Seeding
    (c) Turfing
    (d) Turf plastering

69. Edible part of knol –knol is
    (a) Stem
    (b) Root
    (c) Leaf
    (d) Flower

70. Fruit of papaya is botanically known as
    (a) Pome
    (b) Drupe
    (c) Hesperidum
    (d) Berry

71. In Aonla, intervarietal plantation is done due to
    (a) Shy bearing nature of Aonla
    (b) Presence of male sterility
    (c) Self incompatibility
    (d) Cross incompatibility

72. ‘Black heart’ is a physiological disorder of
    (a) Tomato
    (b) Chili
    (c) Cabbage
    (d) Potato

73. Tungro disease of rice is caused by
    (a) Bacteria
    (b) Actinomycetes
    (c) Alagae
    (d) Virus

74. Button mushroom belongs to the genus
    (a) Volvariella
    (b) Agarcius
    (c) Amanita
    (d) Pleurotus

75. Meristem is culture is followed for
    (a) Elimination of bacteria
    (b) Elimination of fungi
    (c) Elimination of virus
    (d) Elimination of nematodes

76. Which of the following disease occurs due to deficiency of zinc?
    (a) Pansukh disease
    (b) Bunt of rice
    (c) Khaira disease of rice
    (d) Blast disease of rice

77. Powdery Mildew of fungi belongs to order
    (a) Perenosporales
    (b) Erisipahles
    (c) Mucorales
    (d) Uredinales

78. Cuscuta sp. is a
    (a) Total root parasite
    (b) Partial root parasite
    (c) Total stem parasite
    (d) Partial stem parasite

79. Which disease was responsible for the Great Bengal Famine in 1942-43?
    (a) late Blight of potato
    (b) Rice Blast
    (c) Brown spot of Rice
    (d) Wheat Rust

80. Genetic material in tobacco mosaic virus is
    (a) DNA
    (b) DNA or RNA
    (c) RNA
    (d) DNA and RNA both

81. Scientist who discovered Transduction in bacteria
    (a) Zinder and lederberg
    (b) Lederberg and Tatum
    (c) Leeuwenhoek
    (d) Louis Pasteur and Nicholas

82. Casein is obtained from
    (a) Milk
    (b) Wheat
    (c) Barley
    (d) Maize

83. Late Blight of potato is caused by
    (a) Alternaria solani
    (b) Phytophathora infestans
    (c) Fusarium sp.
    (d) Calletotrichum sp.

84. Soil surrounding living root is known as
    (a) Rhizosphere
    (b) Rhizoplane
    (c) Rhizoids
    (d) Rhizomorph

85. Magnesium is an important constituent of one of the following molecule.
    (a) Phytochrome
    (b) Chlorophyll
    (c) Xanthophyll
    (d) Haem protein

86. Plants of which family are reported to assimilate CO₂ in night.
    (a) leguminoceae (pea etc)
    (b) Crassulaceae (Bryophyllum etc)
    (c) Cucurbitaceae (Bitter gourd etc.)
    (d) Malvaceae (Hibiscus etc.)

87. In saline soil the movement (loss) of water from roots to soil occur through one of the following process
    (a) Guttation
    (b) Leaching
    (c) Exo-osmosis
    (d) Evaporation

88. Which one is Amino acid among the following?
    (a) Oxalic acid
    (b) Carbonic acid
    (c) Proline
    (d) Malic acid

89. ‘Kranz’ anatomy is found in the leaves of
    (a) Potato
    (b) Groundnut
    (c) Maize
    (d) Cauliflower

90. Which one of the following is C₄ plant?
    (a) Wheat
    (b) Rice
    (c) Sugarcane
    (d) Mango

91. Which one has epigeal type of seed germination?
    (a) Sorghum
    (b) Bean
    (c) Barley
    (d) Turmeric

92. Interveinal chlorosis in younger leaves is the characteristics deficiency symptom of one of the following?
    (a) Nitrogen
    (b) Boron
    (c) Iron
    (d) Zinc

93. Gibbrellin enhances especially, one of the following process when sprayed on plants
    (a) Stunting
    (b) Rooting
    (c) Elongation
    (d) Transpiration

94. In reduction reaction process what happens
    (a) Water is lost
    (b) Hydrogen is added
    (c) Hydrogen is lost
    (d) Oxygen is added

95. Fruit setting is done through parthinocarpy process in one of the following
    (a) Guava
    (b) Mango
    (c) Apple
    (d) Banana

96. In living plant cell conversion of pyruvic acid into CO₂ and energy is called
    (a) Glycolysis
    (b) Photorespiration
    (c) Krebs cycle
    (d) Carbon-transformation

97. As compared to main bacterial chromosome, the size of an episome is
    (a) 1/10
    (b) 1/20
    (c) 1/30
    (d) 1/40

98. Breeding value of an individual is
    (a) Sum of average effect of genes
    (b) Difference of average effect of genes
    (c) Difference of additive and dominance effects of genes
    (d) Sum of additive and dominance effects of genes

99. The scientists who demonstrated sexuality in bacteria
    (a) Leeuwenhook and kola
    (b) Lderberg and Tatum
    (c) Kircher and Koch
    (d) Louis Pasteur and Nicholas

100. The term mutation breeding was given by
     (a) Hugo de vries
     (b) Jones
     (c) Muller
     (d) Nilson - Ehle

101. Cell wall of Gram⁺ bacteria has a larger component of
     (a) Lipoproteins
     (b) Phospholipids
     (c) Methylamine
     (d) Pepidoglycan

102. In India, hybrid rice seed production is done through
     (a) One line system
     (b) Two line system
     (c) Three line system
     (d) All of these

103. Hardy–Weinberg law is applicable for maintenance of genetic purity of
     (a) Inbred lines
     (b) Open pollinated variety
     (c) Hybrids
     (d) Pureline

104. The most effective mutagen for cytoplasmic gene is
     (a) Ethidium Bromide
     (b) EMS
     (c) MMS
     (d) Sodium Azide

105. pBR322 is a
     (a) Degradation plasmid
     (b) Toxin producing plasmid
     (c) Walking plasmid
     (d) Reconstructed plasmid

106. Which one of these does not obey Mendel’s law?
     (a) Linkage
     (b) Independent assortment
     (c) Dominance
     (d) Purity of gametes

107. In a DNA sequence, if ‘A’ and ‘T’ comprise of 60%, the percentage of C will be
     (a) 30%
     (b) 20%
     (c) 45%
     (d) 15%

108. Which of the following is not true of DNA?
     (a) ‘A’ Pairs with ‘T’ and ‘G’ pairs with ‘C’
     (b) Nitrogen bases are 0.34 nm apart on a DNA strand
     (c) The double helix is 2.0 nm wide
     (d) The double helix is 3.4 nm wide

109. When demand changes due to increase in its own price it is known as
     (a) Expansion in demand
     (b) Contraction in demand
     (c) Increase in demand
     (d) Decrease in demand

110. Which holds good at Break Even point?
     (a) Total Return = Total Cost
     (b) Marginal Return = Marginal Cost
     (c) Marginal Return > Marginal Cost
     (d) Total Return > Total cost

111. Setting a price below that of the competition is called?
     (a) Psychological pricing
     (b) Price skimming
     (c) Competitive pricing
     (d) Penetration pricing

112. For production function Y = 3X² – 6X + 15, what is the value of elasticity of production at X = 5?
     (a) 24.0
     (b) 2.0
     (c) 1.0
     (d) 0.5

113. In marketing, ‘Place Utility’, is created trough
     (a) Transport
     (b) Grading
     (c) Processing
     (d) Insurance

114. Which is not a method used in National Income Accounting?
     (a) Output method
     (b) Income method
     (c) Expenditure method
     (d) Export method

115. If NNPMP_{MP} = 110; Total Subsidy = 25 and Total indirect Tax = 15; then NNPFC_{FC} is
     (a) 110
     (b) 140
     (c) 120
     (d) 105

116. All the following curves are U shaped except
     (a) AVC curve
     (b) AFC curve
     (c) ATC curve
     (d) MC curve

117. What distinguish an economic good from a free good?
     (a) Equality in supply and demand
     (b) Magnitude in utility
     (c) Value in use
     (d) Value in exchange

118. Cellular telecommunication market in India is an example of _____
     (a) Monopoly market
     (b) Duopoly market
     (c) Oligopoly market
     (d) Perfectly competitive market

119. The essence of Engel’s law is that as family incomes rise
     (a) The savings increases
     (b) The proportion of income spent on food declines
     (c) Expenditure on food declines
     (d) Proportion of income spent on luxuries declines

120. The law that determines the best uses of limited resources among alternative uses is known as
     (a) Law of variable proportion
     (b) Law of equi-marginal return
     (c) Law of demand
     (d) Law of supply