ARS- NET- Exam: Paper I-Basic Plant Sciences

For Prelim – ARS / NET Examination:

Paper I-BASIC PLANT SCIENCES

(Memory Based Questions)

1) “Everything else may wait but not agriculture” statement was given by J.L.Nehru

2) Father of White Revolution? Dr.Varghese Kurien

3) National Bio diversity Board is situated in

(Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad)

4) Ian Willmunt is associated with- Dolly (first cloned animal)

5) Red Blood Corpuscle formed in

(Heart, Liver, Bone marrow, Kidney)

6) Gas having highest green house effect per unit molecular weight basis

(CO₂, CH₄, CO, N₂O)

7) IPR stands for Intellectual Property Right

8) Name of Vitamin –C is known as Ascorbic acid

9) Water soluble vitamins are B & C (fat soluble vitamins are A,D,E,K,)

10) Which element is deficient in milk-Iron

11) Blue revolution is related with (Potato, milk, aquaculture, fertilizers)

12) One bale of cotton is 170kg

13) Climacteric fruit -Apple

14) Which GM crops occupies largest area in world-Soyabean

15) Genome of which plant (s) has completely sequenced- Arabidopsis & Rice

16) Edible part of apple: Thalamus

17) Birdflu is caused by Influenza A virus sub type:H5N1

18) Central Tobacco Research Institute -Rajhmundry

19) Farmers day-December 23

20) Operation flood is associated with (floods, crops, water, milk)

21) Khaira disease in rice occur due to the deficiency of Zinc

22) PCR invented by Kary Mullis

23) The main function of endoplasmic reticulam (rough ER) is protein synthesis

24) Beaufort Scale is used to measure-wind pressure/strength

25) The shortest phase of all mitosis phases is Anaphase

26) Who coined the term Gene: Johansson

27) The longest mitotic phase is prophase

28) The main site for dark reaction of photosynthesis is stroma

29) Rate of transpiration is determined by: Ganong’s potometer

30) Apical bud dominance is caused by which hormone :Auxin