Ø  Productions of microspores and megaspores are known as — Sporogenesis.

Ø  Progeny test is also called as Vilmorin Principle.

Ø  Protein content in soybean 40%.

Ø  Pusa do fasli is a variety of Cowpea.

Ø  Putative parents in rice is Asian rice O. sativa and African rice, O. glaberrima.

Ø  Porometer is study of stomatal aperture.

Ø  Positive gene regulation is predominant in eukaryotes.

Ø  Posssible number of single crosses in full diallele is n(n-1).

Ø  Potato is a? Autotetraploid.

Ø  PPVFRA approved in 2004 and came to force in 2005.

Ø  Premature termination of transcription is called as? Attenuation

Ø  Prepotency is the property of an individual to produce progeny similar to itself and to each other.

Ø  Presence of a in b off type plants.

Ø  Presence of b in a pollen shedder.

Ø  Presence of b in R are rogue plants.

Ø  Presence of neurotoxin in khesari dal seed has toxic effects on human health which results in paralysis of lower limbs called lathyrism.

Ø  Presence of physical barrier between anthers and stigma which promotes cross pollination is? Herkogamy.

Ø  Presence of R in B line are rogue plants.

Ø  Primer developed using repeat sequence to amplify non-repeat sequence is ISSR.

Ø  Principal components analysis, PCA, is a statistical method commonly used in population genetics to identify structure in the distribution of genetic variation across geographical location and ethnic background. Principal component based biplots revealed groups of genotypes suitable for specific breeding programs.

Ø  Principle of experimental designs include replication, randomization and local control.

Ø  Principles of marker assisted selection is linked genes.

Ø  Process in which pollination and fertilization takes place but developing embryos abort after sometime is? Stenospermocarpy

Ø  Process of bringing wild species under human management is referred as? Domestication

Ø  Process of conjugation in bacteria was given by Lederberg and Tatum.

Ø  Process of generation of mature RNA is called as? Splicing.

Ø  Production of non-functional pollen grains is? Male sterility.

Ø  Progeny of a single self-pollinated crop is? Pureline.

Ø  Progeny Test is also known as? Vilmorin isolation principle.

Ø  Progeny test reveals the genotypic worth of a plant.

Ø  Progeny test was given for the 1st time by? Louis D. Vilmorin while working on sugarbeets

Ø  Proline is releases during stress.

Ø  Promoter region can be identified by? Foot printing

Ø  Property of an individual to produce progeny is called as? Prepotency

Ø  Proportion of variability expressed as phenotype is? Free variability.

Ø  Protection of GI is for 10 years.

Ø  Protein oversees correct binding of other proteins are molecular chaperones.

Ø  Proteomics study is the large-scale study of proteins.

Ø  Protandry condition is observed in maize crop.

Ø  Protogyny condition is found in a bajra crop.

Ø  Public sector normally expects high seed replacement rate whereas private low seed replacement rate.


Ø  Resting phase after DNA replication, is also called —Post DNA replication phase (G2 phase).

Ø  RFLP requires large quantity of DNA.

Ø  RFLP Technique was originally developed by zabeua and vas.

Ø  Roentgen discovery of x rays.

Ø  Rolling circle model of replication of circular DNA was proposed by dressler

Ø  Removal of RNA primer during DNA replication in prokaryotes is done by? DNA pol-1.

Ø  Repair by breaking thymine dimmers by Phy gene product in the presence of blue light is called as? Photoreactivation.

Ø  Resistance against chilling can be conferred by accumulation of? ABA in plant tissues.

Ø  Resource allocation for males are higher compared to females in plants.

Ø  Respiration is a catabolic process.

Ø  Results from the triple fusion (3n)? Endosperm.

Ø  Reversion is when a mutant mutates back to its original phenotype.

Ø  RFLP stands for? Restricting fragment length polymorphism.

Ø  Rice genome size is 370mb, corn genome size is 2500mb, sorghum genome size 700mb.

Ø  RILS are developed through Single seed descent method.

Ø  RNA synthesis is in which organ? Nucleolus.

Ø  RNA virus ability to convert its sequence into DNA by a reverse transcription is retrovirus.

Ø  RNAI first reported in C. elagans.

Ø  Roberts classified orthodox and calcitrant seeds.

Ø  Robinson et al practises selection index in maize.

Ø  Rolling circle replication of phages is discovered by? Dresseler.

Ø  Rough ER is associated with? Ribosome.

Ø  Round revolution is related to Potato.

Ø  RRGCA- Jenkins (Heterozygous tester is used).

Ø  RRSCA-Hull (Homozygous tester is used).

Ø  Sachromyces cerviase genome size 12 mb

Ø  SAGE detects unknown transcripts and can thus be used in organisms whose genomes are uncharacterized, but can't process as many samples at once.

Ø  Sat DNA is found in NOR region

Ø  Satellite DNA (satDNA) is the highly repetitive DNA consisting of short sequences repeated a large number of times.

Ø  Scar is sequence characterized amplified region

Ø  Scarification is a method to promote? Germination

Ø  Scheme according to which individuals are mated to produce a sexual progeny is? Mating system

Ø  Scientific name of Indica rice is Oryza sativa.

Ø  Scientific name of johannasens research crop is Phaseolous vulagris (Rajma/french bean)

Ø  Sclerenchyma cell is found in the coir’s.

Ø  Secondary centres of diversity of sesamum is India.

Ø  Seed act enacted in 1966.

Ø  Seed index is the weight of 100 seeds.

Ø  Seed is a mature ovule containing an embryo.

Ø  Seed is the fundamental unit of crop production.

Ø  Seed replacement rate - x/y x100.

Ø  Seed lessness in lemon is due to? Self incompatibility.

Ø  Segregating materials grown in different locations to facilitate selection for one trait in one location and for another trait in other is called as? Shuttle breeding

Ø  Segregation ration of dominant and co dominant marker in Ril population is 1:1.

Ø  Selection for one trait would reduce the yield is referred as? Yield penalty.

Ø  Selection for quantitative trait begins in the first quantitative generation F2.

Ø  Selection in one direction for one generation and in opposite direction in another generation is? Cyclic selection.

Ø  Selection of superior individuals based on the phenotype is? Mass selection

Ø  Selection pressure is lower in case of mass selection than in pure line selection.

Ø  Selection removes extreme varieties from population is stabilizing population.

Ø  Selection starts in the F1 generation of three way cross.

Ø  Selection utilizes additive and additive x additive genetic variance.

Ø  Self-incompatibility due to difference in flower morphology is known as heteromorphic system.