Plant Breeding and Genetics

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1.In a half diallel mating design, what is the total number of crosses possible among the parents?

2.Who were the first to introduce the concept of combining ability as an indicator of gene action?

3.Who introduced the concepts of genetic flexibility and phenotypic flexibility?

4.What does a high genetic advance value typically indicate in genetic studies?

5.Who is credited with the development of the pure line theory?

6.Who proposed the discriminant function method for selecting plants?

7.Who introduced the concepts of micro and macro environment?

8.Who introduced the concept of the triple test cross analysis?

9.Who introduced the concept of biparental mating?

10.What is a possible cause of genetic correlation between two traits?

11.Which genetic factor controls the Hessian fly pest resistance in wheat?

12.Who introduced the concept of reciprocal recurrent selection?

13.Who introduced the concept of convergent improvement?

14.Who is credited with developing the concept of diallel selective mating?

15.Who was the first to propose the single seed descent technique?

16.Which of the following groups consist of homozygous populations?

17.Who was the pioneer in formulating the concept of disruptive selection?

18.Which factor leads to an increase in prepotency?

19.Which of the following applications are facilitated by techniques such as RELP and RAPD?

20.In which of the following plants is protoandry observed?

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