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Haryana ADO 2022 Question Paper and Answer Key
Q1. The rhizosphere effect can be quantitatively represented by?
(a) C: P ratio
(b) O: C ratio
(c) C: N ratio
(d) R: S ratio ✓
Q2. The art of training plants into different shapes is known as?
(a) Skirting
(b) propping
(c) shrubbery
(d) topiary ✓
Q3. For the determination of soil microbial biomass, the carbon extracting agent used is?
(a) Potassium sulfate ✓
(b) ammonium sulfate
(c) silver sulfate
(d) sodium sulfate
Q4. The mixture of breeding lines having the same genetic constitution, but different at a specific locus is known as a?
(a) Multi-lines
(b) recombinant inbred lines ✓
(c) are parental lines
(d) doubled haploid lines
Q5. The critical level for hot water extractable B (ppm) in the soil is?
(a) 5.0-10.0
(b) 10.0-15.0
(c) 0.1-2.0 ✓
(d) 2.0-5.0
Q6. The product of pedigree selection is?
(a) 1973 ✓
(b) 1974
(c) 1972
(d) 1971
(a) Fully compatible or partially compatible
(b) always partially compatible
(c) fully compatible, partially compatible, or fully incompatible ✓
(d) always fully compatible
Q9. Prosopis cinerea and cenchrusciliaris are good fodder tree + grass combinations for?
(a) arid climate with sandy soil ✓
(b) semi-arid black cotton soil
(c) semi-arid climate with red soil
(d) temperature climate
Q10. The type of germplasm, which is frequently utilized by breeders for their crop improvement program, is called?
(a) long-term collection ✓
(b) working collection
(c) base collection
(d) active collection
Q11. Typical nitrogen deficiency symptoms in crop plants under high nitrogen content are due to the deficiency of?
(a) Zn
(b) Mn
(c) Mo
(d) B ✓
Q12. The type of recurrent selection that uses a homozygous tester is known as?
(a) recurrent selection for GCA ✓
(b) reciprocal recurrent selection
(c) simple recurrent selection
(d) recurrent selection for SCA
Q13. Organic acids developed from organic matter decomposition act as a chelating agent maybe?
(a) Mercuric acids
(b) amino acids ✓
(c) abscisic acids
(d) gibberellic acids
Q14. Tempering in seed drying refers to?
(a) Moisture vapour pressure
(b) Small pause between stages of drying ✓
(c) equilibrium moisture content
(d) Moisture gradient
Q15. The Chargaff’s rule (1: 1 stoichiometric ratio of purine and pyrimidine bases) not followed in organisms having as genetic material?
(a) ssRNA ✓
(b) dsDNA: RNA hybrid
(c) dsDNA
(d) dsRNA
Q16. Under which condition the hybrid seeds produced should be compulsorily subjected to grow the test for the grant of the certificate?
(a) Hybrid seeds produced through the application of chemical hybridizing agents
(b) The certification officer is not satisfied with the field standards
(c) The seed crop raised under modified isolation distance
(d) The seed crop was raised without following the prescribed planting ratio ✓
Q17. Chemicals that have been implicated in the attraction of rhizobia are?
(a) Flavonoids ✓
(b) sugars
(c) peptides
(d) organic acids
Q18. Among the following, under which condition for maize hybrid seed production, the modification of isolation distance by planting border rows are not permitted?
(a) If the contaminating field is planted with sweetcorn, popcorn, or teosinte
(b) Border rows planted with male parent
(c) Seed field having diagonal exposure to contaminating field ✓
(d) If two hybrid seed fields with different pollinator parents are within the isolation distance of one another
Q19. In the G1 phase of the cell cycle, each chromosome has………chromatid (s).
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 1 ✓
(d) 2
Q20. In the ATP-driven proton potassium exchange mechanism, the H+ ions are formed due to the dissociation of?
(a) malic acid ✓
(b) phosphoglycolic acid
(c) oxaloacetic acid
(d) pyruvic acid
Q21. Compounds that disrupt hormone balance and protein synthesis by which the plant ultimately dies are?
(a) seedling growth inhibitors ✓
(b) amino acid synthesis regulators
(c) plant growth regulators
(d) pigment inhibitors
Q22. The recently developed training system in grapes is called?
(a) telephone
(b) knifing
(c) Y-trellis ✓
(d) cardon
Q23. In rice, assume that a recessive gene “a” is responsible for resistance to BLD. This gene is present on chromosome #1. A monosomic resistant line for chromosome #1 is crossed with a normal susceptible line. The phenotype of F1 plants will be?
(a) 50% plants resistant and 50% plants susceptible
(b) 75% of plants are resistant and 25% of plants are susceptible all plants resistant
(c) all plants resistant
(d) all plants susceptible ✓
Q24. Nernst equation allows us to make certain predictions about?
(a) equilibrium concentrations of ions outside the cell when ions transport is due to ion transport
(b) equilibrium concentrations of ions outside the cell when ions transport is due to facilitated diffusion
(c) equilibrium concentration of ions inside the cell when ion transport is due to facilitated diffusion.
(d) equilibrium concentrations of ions inside the cell when 1on transport is due to ion transport ✓
Q25. The estimate of the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population is called?
(a) Pleiotropy
(b) heritability ✓
(c) Expressivity
(d) Penetrance
Q26. The unit of spectral energy fluence rate is?
(a) mol photon mg-2 Sg-2 nm-1
(b) J m-2 S-1 ✓
(c) mol m-2 s-1
(d) W m-2 nm-1-
Q27. The marker systems Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP), Diversity Array Technology (DarT), Single-Feature Polymorphism (SFP), and Restriction-site-Associated DNA (RAD) are detected by?
(a) PCR followed by electrophoresis
(b) Real-time PCR
(C) DNA: DNA hybridization ✓
(d) DNA: RNA hybridization
Q28. Which among the following statements is true about Gibberellin (GA)?
(a) GAs are tetraterpenoids synthesized from MVA
(b) GAs are tetraterpenoids synthesized from the jasmonic acid pathway
(c) GAs are tetraterpenoids synthesized from the jasmonic acid pathway
(d) GAs are diterpenoids synthesized from MVA ✓
Q29. Once incorporated into the plant genome, the gene product, CP4 EPSP synthase, confers crop resistance to?
(a) Atrazine
(b) Thiefensulfuron
(C) Glyphosate ✓
(d) 2,4-D
Q30. The Government of India 1997 launched the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) to benefit……..poor families?
(a) 6 crore ✓
(b) 7 crore
(c) 4 crore
(d) 5 crore
Q31. In CRISPR-Cas9 technology, the RNA designed to find and bind to a specific sequence in the DNA, is known as?
(a) mRNA
(b) gRNA ✓
(c) SCRNA
(d) U1RNA
Q32. Cuttings of black pepper are raised mainly from?
(a) Runner shoots ✓
(b) orthotropes
(c) plagiotropes
(d) geotropes
Q33. Aflatoxin is a?
(a) vivo toxin
(b) phytoalexin
(c) picrotoxin
(d) mycotoxin ✓
Q34. Krishi Vigyan Kendras are one of the largest networks for scientific dissemination of agricultural technologies to the end users financially supported by?
(a) ICAR ✓
(b) ICFA
(c) the State Government
(d) the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer's Welfare
Q35. In which year the National Food Security Act was passed?
(a) 2015
(b) 2016
(c) 2013 ✓
(d) 2014
Q36. Which is a system of supervised control of diseases and pests in winter wheat?
(a) SimCast
(b) PhytoPRE
(c) EPIPRE ✓
(d) BLITECAST
Q37. When a disease is more or less constantly prevalent in a locality year after year in a moderate to a severe form, it is known as?
(a) pandemic disease
(b) sporadic disease
(c) endemic disease ✓
(d) epidemic disease
Q38. The United Nations Assembly declared………. as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables?
(a) 2018
(b) 2020
(c) 2021 ✓
(d) 2015
Q39. The destructive Insects and Pests Act (1914) is related to the?
(a) Plant quarantine ✓
(b) Forest protection
(c) biodiversity
(d) environmental protection
Q40. The “Antyodaya Anna Yojana” (AAY) was launched in December 2000 for the poorest of the poor families among BPL covered under TPDS)?
(a) 2 crore
(b) 1 crore ✓
(c) 4 crore
(d) 3 crore
Q41. Which one of the following is not a mode of action of biocontrol agents?
(a) antibiosis
(b) RNA interference
(c) Competition
(d) Lysis ✓
Q42. Which agenda of SDGs of the UN addresses zero hunger?
(a) Late blight of potato ✓
(b) Triticum corn blight
(c) blister blight of tea
(d) bacterial blight of rice
Q44. Transfer of agricultural technologies to the farmers is done by KVKs located in…….. zones of the country?
(a) 711 and 08
(b) 675 and 09
(c) 722 and 11 ✓
(d) 702 and 07
Q45. The science dealing with the outbreak and spread of disease in a population is called?
(a) Epidemiology ✓
(b) Pathology
(c) Etiology
(d) None of these
Q46. CIBRC is responsible for the registration of?
(a) insecticides
(b) fungicides
(c) bio-pesticides
(d) All of the above ✓
Q47. A world free of hunger and malnutrition is who’s the vision?
(a) FAO
(b) IFPRI
(c) WHO ✓
(d) None of the above
Q48. Which is the most widespread form of malnutrition among preschool children in India?
(a) Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) ✓
(b) Iodine deficiency
(c) Vitamin A deficiency
(d) Iron deficiency anemia
Q49. Which of the following is an example of an electroneutral pump?
(a) Ca+2 – ATPase
(b) H+/K+ – ATPase ✓
(c) H+ – PPase
(d) H+ – ATPase
Q50. A drought year as a whole is defined by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) as a year in which, the overall rainfall deficiency is more than 10 percent of?
(a) Seasonal period average value
(b) half-yearly average value
(c) the short period average value
(d) the long-period average value ✓ Q51. H+-ATPases of plasma membrane and tonoplast are?
(a) different ✓
(a) greater or equal to 5°C ✓
(b) greater or equal to -5°C
(c) greater or equal to 0.5 °C
(d) greater or equal to -0.5 °C
Q53. Phytosiderophores have a high affinity to?
(a) Fe +2
(b) Fe+3 ✓
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of the above
Q54. In which wavelength range, do the greenhouse gases absorb energy?
(a) 100 to 500 μm
(b) 400 to 700 μm
(c) 0.3 to 3 μm
(d) 5 to 100 µm ✓
Q55. Chlorophyll is formed from protochlorophyllide in light. The protochlorophyllide lacks two hydrogen atoms one each…… at…… and……. carbon of……. ring?
(a) 8th 9th, IV
(b) 7th, 8th, I
(c) 8th, 9th, I
(d) 7th, 8th, IV ✓
Q56. Tensiometer is suitable for which type of soil?
(a) Loamy soil
(b) Laterite soil
(c) Clay soil
(d) Sandy soil ✓
Q57. NADP-Me type C4 pathway is found in?
(a) Atriplex and Amaranthus
(b) Portulaca
(c) Sugarcane and maize ✓
(d) Panicum maximum
Q58. Parthenium hysterophorusis?
(a) C3 and c4 plants ✓
(b) CAM plant
(c) C3 plant
(d) C4 plant
Q59. Inulin is a polymer of?
(a) Pentose
(b) Galactose
(c) Glucose
(d) Fructose ✓
Q60. What is the Water Use Efficiency (WUE) of rice if the grain yield is 6000 kg/hectare with evapotranspiration of 950 mm?
(a) 63.1 ha. mm
(b) 0.631 ha. mm
(c) 631 ha. mm
(d) 6.31 ha. mm ✓
Q61. Which of the following acts(s) as a strong germinator for parasitic weeds?
(a) Strigolactones ✓
(b) ABA
(c) Both A and B
(d) Temperature and Pressure
Q62. The ratio of land required by pure crop to produce the same yield as that of intercrop is known as?
(a) LER ✓
(b) MCI
(c) CEY
(d) CLUI
Q63. Clay soil contains which type of pores to a large extent?
(a) Medium pore
(b) Macro pore
(c) Capillary pore ✓
(d) Coarse pore
Q64. The plantlet that is produced through clonal propagation is termed a?
(a) ortet
(b) seedling
(c) sapling
(d) ramet ✓
Q65. The cropping pattern is referred to as the?
(a) Growing of crops in different sequences
(b) Growing of crops in intercropping and mixed cropping sequences
(c) Maximum area covered by a particular crop with a particular season and particular area ✓
(d) Minimum area covered by a particular crop with a particular season and particular area
Q66. Calculate the basal area per hectare if the number of tallied trees was 14 and the Basal Area Factor (BAF) of the wedge prism used is three?
(a) 21 M²
(b) 28 m²
(c) 42 m² ✓
(d) 14 m²
Q67. If the drainage coefficient is 3 cm/day, then the flow rate through drains of the watershed of the area of 1500 hectares is?
(a) 2 m³/s
(b) 5.2 m³/s ✓
(c) 0.2 m³/s
(d) 0.5 m³/s
Q68. In waterlogged lands?
(a) The soil pores are saturated within a depth of 40 m
(b) the soil pores are saturated up to the root zone of the crop ✓
(c) the soil pores are saturated within a depth of 1 m
(d) the soil pores are saturated within a depth of 60 m
Q69. which sub-surface drainage system consists of laterals that enter the main drain at an angle, generally from both sides?
(a) Interceptor
(b) Gridiron
(c) Random
(d) Herringbone ✓
Q70. The presence of excess salt in the soil requires?
(a) High water application efficiency
(b) low water use efficiency
(c) high water storage efficiency ✓
(d) low water storage efficiency
Q71. Pusa Surya Mango cultivar is selected from the?
(a) Haden
(b) Golden Nuggets
(c) Eldon ✓
(d) Brooks
Q72. Plantation of high-water consuming trees for withdrawal of groundwater is termed a?
(a) Bio-drainage ✓
(b) surface drainage
(c) mole drainage
(d) interceptor drains
Q73. Splash Erosion is otherwise called?
(a) Rill erosion
(b) Gully erosion
(c) Rain drop erosion ✓
(d) Sheet erosion
Q74. Who among the following is popularly known as the Father of Agricultural Demonstration?
(a) Edger Dale
(b) Auguste Comte
(c) Paul leagans
(d) Seaman A. Knapp ✓
Q75. The marginal Physical Product (MPP) is the maximum corresponding to the?
(a) Average Physical Product (APP)
(b) Point of inflection ✓
(c) Input price and output price ratio
(d) Total Physical Product (TPP)
Q76. Which of the following is a cultivar of the custard apple?
(a) Jayanagar
(b) Vijayanagar
(c) Balanagar
(d) All of the above ✓
Q77. Tagetes patula marigold is also known as?
(a) Signet Marigold
(b) Brazil Marigold
(c) African Marigold
(d) French Marigold ✓
Q78. A subdivision on the basis of some important deviations such as surface texture, erosion, slope, and stoniness is called a?
(a) Soil family
(b) Soil order
(c) Soil phase
(d) Soil series ✓
Q79. Ceteris paribus means?
(a) Same proportionate change in variables
(b) keeping other things constant ✓
(c) proportionate change in all variables
(d) a small change in all other variables
Q80. H+ and Al+ ions present in non-exchangeable form with organic matter and silicate clays and aluminum hydroxyl ions account for?
(a) Exchangeable acidity
(b) non-exchangeable acidity
(c) active acidity
(d) reserve acidity ✓
Q81. According to Thomas Robert Malthus, the population tends to grow in?
(a) Ever increasing rate
(b) increasing and decreasing rate
(c) geometric propression ✓
(d) arithmetic progression
Q82. In a paracentric inversion, rearrangement of genes?
(a) Involves the exchange of telomere ends of a chromosome
(b) involves the centromere part of a chromosome
(c) is confined to the single arm of a chromosome ✓
(d) involves both the arms of a chromosome
Q83. The National Agricultural Extension Policy was announced by the Government of India during which year?
(a) 2011
(b) 2014
(c) 2000 ✓
(d) 2003
Q84. Azospirillumlipoferum is reported to be associated with the roots of?
(a) pigeon pea
(b) maize ✓
(c) rice
(d) potato
Q85. The training and visit system is mainly known for?
(a) Decentralized extension approach
(b) farmer friend
(c) bottom-up planning of extension activities ✓
(d) systematic training and scheduled visits
Q86. Lysimeter is used for the measurement of?
(a) Water flow
(b) evapotranspiration ✓
(c) evaporation
(d) transpiration
Q87. What is/are the effects(s) of heavy metals on soil?
(a) High concentrations of heavy metals affect the nutrient balance
(b) Heavy metals like Cd, Pb, Hg, as, and Ni affect the microbial processes in
(c) It creates phytotoxicity in plants
(d) All of the above ✓
Q88. Cycocel (CCC) is a?
(a) Growth regulator
(b) Growt promoter
(c) Growth inhibitor ✓
(d) None of the above
Q89. Fertilizer is defined as?
(a) Organic material with a definite chemical composition and high analytical value that supplies one or more plant nutrients in plant available form
(b) inorganic material with no definite chemical composition and high analytical value that supplies one or more plant nutrients in plant available form
(c) inorganic material with a definite chemical composition and low analytical value that supplies one or more plant nutrients in plant available form
(d) inorganic material with a definite chemical composition and high analytical value that supplies one or more plant nutrients in plant available form ✓
Q90. Khaira disease of rice is due to?
(a) Mn deficiency
(b) Sulphur deficiency
(c) Zinc deficiency ✓
(d) Fe deficiency
Q91. Which among the following is/are organic P-containing compounds of soil?
(a) Nucleic acids
(b) Inositol phosphate
(c) Phospholipids
(d) All of the above ✓
Q92. The trade name of Alachlor is?
(a) Stomp
(b) Lasso ✓
(c) Basalin
(d) Machete
Q93. The joint forest management concept was first implemented at?
(a) Ayyalur
(b) Arabari ✓
(c) jhansi
(d) Jabalpur
Q94. Which weed is called the ‘MAMA’ of the wheat crop?
(a) Chenopodium album
(b) Cyperus rotundus
(c) Echinochloacolona
(d) Phalaris minor ✓
Q95. The term used in watershed management, time of concentration refers to?
(a) The drop of water traveling from most middle area of the watershed to the common drainage point
(b) the drop of water traveled from the most remote area of the watershed to the common drain-age point to the most remote area of the watershed ✓
(c) the drop of water traveled from the common drainage point to the most remote area of the watershed
(d) none of the above
Q96. Salai gum is obtained from which tree species?
(a) Sterculia urens
(b) Anogeissus latifolia
(c) Lanneacoromandelica
(d) Boswellia serrata ✓
Q97. Fertigation system of irrigation the?
(a) Supply of only nutrients to the crop
(b) supply of only water to the crop
(c) supply of both water and nutrients to the crop ✓
(d) None of the above
Q98. Soil moisture tension is directly measured by?
(a) Current meter
(b) Parshall flume
(c) tensiometer ✓
(d) V notch
Q99. In watershed management, the use of ‘Ridge Line’ is referred to as the?
(a) Drainage line of two watershed areas
(b) Valley line of two watershed areas
(c) the imaginary line of two watershed areas
(d) the dividing line of two watershed areas ✓
Q100. What is meant by moisture Equivalent?
(a) Percent of water a soil can retain in opposition to a centrifugal force 100 times that to gravity
(b) Percent of water a soil can retain in opposition to a centrifugal force 1000 times that of gravity ✓
(c) Percent of water a soil can retain in opposition to a centrifugal force 10000 times that of gravity
(d) percent of the water a soil can retain in opposition to a centrifugal force 10 times that of gravity
Haryana HPSC ADO Previous Year Question Paper (PDF): On October 16, 2022, the Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) held the written test for Agriculture Development Officer (ADO). The ADO Answer Key is now available on the HPSC's official website, www.hpsc.gov.in. The HPSC ADO Answer Key PDF, as well as the question paper, may be downloaded from the direct URL provided below.
(a) C: P ratio
(b) O: C ratio
(c) C: N ratio
(d) R: S ratio ✓
Q2. The art of training plants into different shapes is known as?
(a) Skirting
(b) propping
(c) shrubbery
(d) topiary ✓
Q3. For the determination of soil microbial biomass, the carbon extracting agent used is?
(a) Potassium sulfate ✓
(b) ammonium sulfate
(c) silver sulfate
(d) sodium sulfate
Q4. The mixture of breeding lines having the same genetic constitution, but different at a specific locus is known as a?
(a) Multi-lines
(b) recombinant inbred lines ✓
(c) are parental lines
(d) doubled haploid lines
Q5. The critical level for hot water extractable B (ppm) in the soil is?
(a) 5.0-10.0
(b) 10.0-15.0
(c) 0.1-2.0 ✓
(d) 2.0-5.0
Q6. The product of pedigree selection is?
(a) heterozygous and homogeneous
(b) heterozygous and heterogeneous
(c) homozygous and homogeneous ✓
(d) homozygous and heterogeneous
Q7. The CITES was signed in the year?
(b) heterozygous and heterogeneous
(c) homozygous and homogeneous ✓
(d) homozygous and heterogeneous
Q7. The CITES was signed in the year?
(a) 1973 ✓
(b) 1974
(c) 1972
(d) 1971
Q8. In the gametophytic self-incompatibility system, when sib matings are carried out, the crosses are?
(a) Fully compatible or partially compatible
(b) always partially compatible
(c) fully compatible, partially compatible, or fully incompatible ✓
(d) always fully compatible
Q9. Prosopis cinerea and cenchrusciliaris are good fodder tree + grass combinations for?
(a) arid climate with sandy soil ✓
(b) semi-arid black cotton soil
(c) semi-arid climate with red soil
(d) temperature climate
Q10. The type of germplasm, which is frequently utilized by breeders for their crop improvement program, is called?
(a) long-term collection ✓
(b) working collection
(c) base collection
(d) active collection
Q11. Typical nitrogen deficiency symptoms in crop plants under high nitrogen content are due to the deficiency of?
(a) Zn
(b) Mn
(c) Mo
(d) B ✓
Q12. The type of recurrent selection that uses a homozygous tester is known as?
(a) recurrent selection for GCA ✓
(b) reciprocal recurrent selection
(c) simple recurrent selection
(d) recurrent selection for SCA
Q13. Organic acids developed from organic matter decomposition act as a chelating agent maybe?
(a) Mercuric acids
(b) amino acids ✓
(c) abscisic acids
(d) gibberellic acids
Q14. Tempering in seed drying refers to?
(a) Moisture vapour pressure
(b) Small pause between stages of drying ✓
(c) equilibrium moisture content
(d) Moisture gradient
Q15. The Chargaff’s rule (1: 1 stoichiometric ratio of purine and pyrimidine bases) not followed in organisms having as genetic material?
(a) ssRNA ✓
(b) dsDNA: RNA hybrid
(c) dsDNA
(d) dsRNA
Q16. Under which condition the hybrid seeds produced should be compulsorily subjected to grow the test for the grant of the certificate?
(a) Hybrid seeds produced through the application of chemical hybridizing agents
(b) The certification officer is not satisfied with the field standards
(c) The seed crop raised under modified isolation distance
(d) The seed crop was raised without following the prescribed planting ratio ✓
Q17. Chemicals that have been implicated in the attraction of rhizobia are?
(a) Flavonoids ✓
(b) sugars
(c) peptides
(d) organic acids
Q18. Among the following, under which condition for maize hybrid seed production, the modification of isolation distance by planting border rows are not permitted?
(a) If the contaminating field is planted with sweetcorn, popcorn, or teosinte
(b) Border rows planted with male parent
(c) Seed field having diagonal exposure to contaminating field ✓
(d) If two hybrid seed fields with different pollinator parents are within the isolation distance of one another
Q19. In the G1 phase of the cell cycle, each chromosome has………chromatid (s).
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 1 ✓
(d) 2
Q20. In the ATP-driven proton potassium exchange mechanism, the H+ ions are formed due to the dissociation of?
(a) malic acid ✓
(b) phosphoglycolic acid
(c) oxaloacetic acid
(d) pyruvic acid
Q21. Compounds that disrupt hormone balance and protein synthesis by which the plant ultimately dies are?
(a) seedling growth inhibitors ✓
(b) amino acid synthesis regulators
(c) plant growth regulators
(d) pigment inhibitors
Q22. The recently developed training system in grapes is called?
(a) telephone
(b) knifing
(c) Y-trellis ✓
(d) cardon
Q23. In rice, assume that a recessive gene “a” is responsible for resistance to BLD. This gene is present on chromosome #1. A monosomic resistant line for chromosome #1 is crossed with a normal susceptible line. The phenotype of F1 plants will be?
(a) 50% plants resistant and 50% plants susceptible
(b) 75% of plants are resistant and 25% of plants are susceptible all plants resistant
(c) all plants resistant
(d) all plants susceptible ✓
Q24. Nernst equation allows us to make certain predictions about?
(a) equilibrium concentrations of ions outside the cell when ions transport is due to ion transport
(b) equilibrium concentrations of ions outside the cell when ions transport is due to facilitated diffusion
(c) equilibrium concentration of ions inside the cell when ion transport is due to facilitated diffusion.
(d) equilibrium concentrations of ions inside the cell when 1on transport is due to ion transport ✓
Q25. The estimate of the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population is called?
(a) Pleiotropy
(b) heritability ✓
(c) Expressivity
(d) Penetrance
Q26. The unit of spectral energy fluence rate is?
(a) mol photon mg-2 Sg-2 nm-1
(b) J m-2 S-1 ✓
(c) mol m-2 s-1
(d) W m-2 nm-1-
Q27. The marker systems Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP), Diversity Array Technology (DarT), Single-Feature Polymorphism (SFP), and Restriction-site-Associated DNA (RAD) are detected by?
(a) PCR followed by electrophoresis
(b) Real-time PCR
(C) DNA: DNA hybridization ✓
(d) DNA: RNA hybridization
Q28. Which among the following statements is true about Gibberellin (GA)?
(a) GAs are tetraterpenoids synthesized from MVA
(b) GAs are tetraterpenoids synthesized from the jasmonic acid pathway
(c) GAs are tetraterpenoids synthesized from the jasmonic acid pathway
(d) GAs are diterpenoids synthesized from MVA ✓
Q29. Once incorporated into the plant genome, the gene product, CP4 EPSP synthase, confers crop resistance to?
(a) Atrazine
(b) Thiefensulfuron
(C) Glyphosate ✓
(d) 2,4-D
Q30. The Government of India 1997 launched the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) to benefit……..poor families?
(a) 6 crore ✓
(b) 7 crore
(c) 4 crore
(d) 5 crore
Q31. In CRISPR-Cas9 technology, the RNA designed to find and bind to a specific sequence in the DNA, is known as?
(a) mRNA
(b) gRNA ✓
(c) SCRNA
(d) U1RNA
Q32. Cuttings of black pepper are raised mainly from?
(a) Runner shoots ✓
(b) orthotropes
(c) plagiotropes
(d) geotropes
Q33. Aflatoxin is a?
(a) vivo toxin
(b) phytoalexin
(c) picrotoxin
(d) mycotoxin ✓
Q34. Krishi Vigyan Kendras are one of the largest networks for scientific dissemination of agricultural technologies to the end users financially supported by?
(a) ICAR ✓
(b) ICFA
(c) the State Government
(d) the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer's Welfare
Q35. In which year the National Food Security Act was passed?
(a) 2015
(b) 2016
(c) 2013 ✓
(d) 2014
Q36. Which is a system of supervised control of diseases and pests in winter wheat?
(a) SimCast
(b) PhytoPRE
(c) EPIPRE ✓
(d) BLITECAST
Q37. When a disease is more or less constantly prevalent in a locality year after year in a moderate to a severe form, it is known as?
(a) pandemic disease
(b) sporadic disease
(c) endemic disease ✓
(d) epidemic disease
Q38. The United Nations Assembly declared………. as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables?
(a) 2018
(b) 2020
(c) 2021 ✓
(d) 2015
Q39. The destructive Insects and Pests Act (1914) is related to the?
(a) Plant quarantine ✓
(b) Forest protection
(c) biodiversity
(d) environmental protection
Q40. The “Antyodaya Anna Yojana” (AAY) was launched in December 2000 for the poorest of the poor families among BPL covered under TPDS)?
(a) 2 crore
(b) 1 crore ✓
(c) 4 crore
(d) 3 crore
Q41. Which one of the following is not a mode of action of biocontrol agents?
(a) antibiosis
(b) RNA interference
(c) Competition
(d) Lysis ✓
Q42. Which agenda of SDGs of the UN addresses zero hunger?
(a) 07
(b) 17 ✓
(c) 11
(d) 02
Q43. ‘Blitecast’ is a forecasting model for?
(b) 17 ✓
(c) 11
(d) 02
Q43. ‘Blitecast’ is a forecasting model for?
(a) Late blight of potato ✓
(b) Triticum corn blight
(c) blister blight of tea
(d) bacterial blight of rice
Q44. Transfer of agricultural technologies to the farmers is done by KVKs located in…….. zones of the country?
(a) 711 and 08
(b) 675 and 09
(c) 722 and 11 ✓
(d) 702 and 07
Q45. The science dealing with the outbreak and spread of disease in a population is called?
(a) Epidemiology ✓
(b) Pathology
(c) Etiology
(d) None of these
Q46. CIBRC is responsible for the registration of?
(a) insecticides
(b) fungicides
(c) bio-pesticides
(d) All of the above ✓
Q47. A world free of hunger and malnutrition is who’s the vision?
(a) FAO
(b) IFPRI
(c) WHO ✓
(d) None of the above
Q48. Which is the most widespread form of malnutrition among preschool children in India?
(a) Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) ✓
(b) Iodine deficiency
(c) Vitamin A deficiency
(d) Iron deficiency anemia
Q49. Which of the following is an example of an electroneutral pump?
(a) Ca+2 – ATPase
(b) H+/K+ – ATPase ✓
(c) H+ – PPase
(d) H+ – ATPase
Q50. A drought year as a whole is defined by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) as a year in which, the overall rainfall deficiency is more than 10 percent of?
(a) Seasonal period average value
(b) half-yearly average value
(c) the short period average value
(d) the long-period average value ✓ Q51. H+-ATPases of plasma membrane and tonoplast are?
(a) different ✓
(b) not known
(c) same
(d) None of the above
Q52. The Oceanic Nino Index corresponding to the El Nino period is?
(d) None of the above
Q52. The Oceanic Nino Index corresponding to the El Nino period is?
(a) greater or equal to 5°C ✓
(b) greater or equal to -5°C
(c) greater or equal to 0.5 °C
(d) greater or equal to -0.5 °C
Q53. Phytosiderophores have a high affinity to?
(a) Fe +2
(b) Fe+3 ✓
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of the above
Q54. In which wavelength range, do the greenhouse gases absorb energy?
(a) 100 to 500 μm
(b) 400 to 700 μm
(c) 0.3 to 3 μm
(d) 5 to 100 µm ✓
Q55. Chlorophyll is formed from protochlorophyllide in light. The protochlorophyllide lacks two hydrogen atoms one each…… at…… and……. carbon of……. ring?
(a) 8th 9th, IV
(b) 7th, 8th, I
(c) 8th, 9th, I
(d) 7th, 8th, IV ✓
Q56. Tensiometer is suitable for which type of soil?
(a) Loamy soil
(b) Laterite soil
(c) Clay soil
(d) Sandy soil ✓
Q57. NADP-Me type C4 pathway is found in?
(a) Atriplex and Amaranthus
(b) Portulaca
(c) Sugarcane and maize ✓
(d) Panicum maximum
Q58. Parthenium hysterophorusis?
(a) C3 and c4 plants ✓
(b) CAM plant
(c) C3 plant
(d) C4 plant
Q59. Inulin is a polymer of?
(a) Pentose
(b) Galactose
(c) Glucose
(d) Fructose ✓
Q60. What is the Water Use Efficiency (WUE) of rice if the grain yield is 6000 kg/hectare with evapotranspiration of 950 mm?
(a) 63.1 ha. mm
(b) 0.631 ha. mm
(c) 631 ha. mm
(d) 6.31 ha. mm ✓
Q61. Which of the following acts(s) as a strong germinator for parasitic weeds?
(a) Strigolactones ✓
(b) ABA
(c) Both A and B
(d) Temperature and Pressure
Q62. The ratio of land required by pure crop to produce the same yield as that of intercrop is known as?
(a) LER ✓
(b) MCI
(c) CEY
(d) CLUI
Q63. Clay soil contains which type of pores to a large extent?
(a) Medium pore
(b) Macro pore
(c) Capillary pore ✓
(d) Coarse pore
Q64. The plantlet that is produced through clonal propagation is termed a?
(a) ortet
(b) seedling
(c) sapling
(d) ramet ✓
Q65. The cropping pattern is referred to as the?
(a) Growing of crops in different sequences
(b) Growing of crops in intercropping and mixed cropping sequences
(c) Maximum area covered by a particular crop with a particular season and particular area ✓
(d) Minimum area covered by a particular crop with a particular season and particular area
Q66. Calculate the basal area per hectare if the number of tallied trees was 14 and the Basal Area Factor (BAF) of the wedge prism used is three?
(a) 21 M²
(b) 28 m²
(c) 42 m² ✓
(d) 14 m²
Q67. If the drainage coefficient is 3 cm/day, then the flow rate through drains of the watershed of the area of 1500 hectares is?
(a) 2 m³/s
(b) 5.2 m³/s ✓
(c) 0.2 m³/s
(d) 0.5 m³/s
Q68. In waterlogged lands?
(a) The soil pores are saturated within a depth of 40 m
(b) the soil pores are saturated up to the root zone of the crop ✓
(c) the soil pores are saturated within a depth of 1 m
(d) the soil pores are saturated within a depth of 60 m
Q69. which sub-surface drainage system consists of laterals that enter the main drain at an angle, generally from both sides?
(a) Interceptor
(b) Gridiron
(c) Random
(d) Herringbone ✓
Q70. The presence of excess salt in the soil requires?
(a) High water application efficiency
(b) low water use efficiency
(c) high water storage efficiency ✓
(d) low water storage efficiency
Q71. Pusa Surya Mango cultivar is selected from the?
(a) Haden
(b) Golden Nuggets
(c) Eldon ✓
(d) Brooks
Q72. Plantation of high-water consuming trees for withdrawal of groundwater is termed a?
(a) Bio-drainage ✓
(b) surface drainage
(c) mole drainage
(d) interceptor drains
Q73. Splash Erosion is otherwise called?
(a) Rill erosion
(b) Gully erosion
(c) Rain drop erosion ✓
(d) Sheet erosion
Q74. Who among the following is popularly known as the Father of Agricultural Demonstration?
(a) Edger Dale
(b) Auguste Comte
(c) Paul leagans
(d) Seaman A. Knapp ✓
Q75. The marginal Physical Product (MPP) is the maximum corresponding to the?
(a) Average Physical Product (APP)
(b) Point of inflection ✓
(c) Input price and output price ratio
(d) Total Physical Product (TPP)
Q76. Which of the following is a cultivar of the custard apple?
(a) Jayanagar
(b) Vijayanagar
(c) Balanagar
(d) All of the above ✓
Q77. Tagetes patula marigold is also known as?
(a) Signet Marigold
(b) Brazil Marigold
(c) African Marigold
(d) French Marigold ✓
Q78. A subdivision on the basis of some important deviations such as surface texture, erosion, slope, and stoniness is called a?
(a) Soil family
(b) Soil order
(c) Soil phase
(d) Soil series ✓
Q79. Ceteris paribus means?
(a) Same proportionate change in variables
(b) keeping other things constant ✓
(c) proportionate change in all variables
(d) a small change in all other variables
Q80. H+ and Al+ ions present in non-exchangeable form with organic matter and silicate clays and aluminum hydroxyl ions account for?
(a) Exchangeable acidity
(b) non-exchangeable acidity
(c) active acidity
(d) reserve acidity ✓
Q81. According to Thomas Robert Malthus, the population tends to grow in?
(a) Ever increasing rate
(b) increasing and decreasing rate
(c) geometric propression ✓
(d) arithmetic progression
Q82. In a paracentric inversion, rearrangement of genes?
(a) Involves the exchange of telomere ends of a chromosome
(b) involves the centromere part of a chromosome
(c) is confined to the single arm of a chromosome ✓
(d) involves both the arms of a chromosome
Q83. The National Agricultural Extension Policy was announced by the Government of India during which year?
(a) 2011
(b) 2014
(c) 2000 ✓
(d) 2003
Q84. Azospirillumlipoferum is reported to be associated with the roots of?
(a) pigeon pea
(b) maize ✓
(c) rice
(d) potato
Q85. The training and visit system is mainly known for?
(a) Decentralized extension approach
(b) farmer friend
(c) bottom-up planning of extension activities ✓
(d) systematic training and scheduled visits
Q86. Lysimeter is used for the measurement of?
(a) Water flow
(b) evapotranspiration ✓
(c) evaporation
(d) transpiration
Q87. What is/are the effects(s) of heavy metals on soil?
(a) High concentrations of heavy metals affect the nutrient balance
(b) Heavy metals like Cd, Pb, Hg, as, and Ni affect the microbial processes in
(c) It creates phytotoxicity in plants
(d) All of the above ✓
Q88. Cycocel (CCC) is a?
(a) Growth regulator
(b) Growt promoter
(c) Growth inhibitor ✓
(d) None of the above
Q89. Fertilizer is defined as?
(a) Organic material with a definite chemical composition and high analytical value that supplies one or more plant nutrients in plant available form
(b) inorganic material with no definite chemical composition and high analytical value that supplies one or more plant nutrients in plant available form
(c) inorganic material with a definite chemical composition and low analytical value that supplies one or more plant nutrients in plant available form
(d) inorganic material with a definite chemical composition and high analytical value that supplies one or more plant nutrients in plant available form ✓
Q90. Khaira disease of rice is due to?
(a) Mn deficiency
(b) Sulphur deficiency
(c) Zinc deficiency ✓
(d) Fe deficiency
Q91. Which among the following is/are organic P-containing compounds of soil?
(a) Nucleic acids
(b) Inositol phosphate
(c) Phospholipids
(d) All of the above ✓
Q92. The trade name of Alachlor is?
(a) Stomp
(b) Lasso ✓
(c) Basalin
(d) Machete
Q93. The joint forest management concept was first implemented at?
(a) Ayyalur
(b) Arabari ✓
(c) jhansi
(d) Jabalpur
Q94. Which weed is called the ‘MAMA’ of the wheat crop?
(a) Chenopodium album
(b) Cyperus rotundus
(c) Echinochloacolona
(d) Phalaris minor ✓
Q95. The term used in watershed management, time of concentration refers to?
(a) The drop of water traveling from most middle area of the watershed to the common drainage point
(b) the drop of water traveled from the most remote area of the watershed to the common drain-age point to the most remote area of the watershed ✓
(c) the drop of water traveled from the common drainage point to the most remote area of the watershed
(d) none of the above
Q96. Salai gum is obtained from which tree species?
(a) Sterculia urens
(b) Anogeissus latifolia
(c) Lanneacoromandelica
(d) Boswellia serrata ✓
Q97. Fertigation system of irrigation the?
(a) Supply of only nutrients to the crop
(b) supply of only water to the crop
(c) supply of both water and nutrients to the crop ✓
(d) None of the above
Q98. Soil moisture tension is directly measured by?
(a) Current meter
(b) Parshall flume
(c) tensiometer ✓
(d) V notch
Q99. In watershed management, the use of ‘Ridge Line’ is referred to as the?
(a) Drainage line of two watershed areas
(b) Valley line of two watershed areas
(c) the imaginary line of two watershed areas
(d) the dividing line of two watershed areas ✓
Q100. What is meant by moisture Equivalent?
(a) Percent of water a soil can retain in opposition to a centrifugal force 100 times that to gravity
(b) Percent of water a soil can retain in opposition to a centrifugal force 1000 times that of gravity ✓
(c) Percent of water a soil can retain in opposition to a centrifugal force 10000 times that of gravity
(d) percent of the water a soil can retain in opposition to a centrifugal force 10 times that of gravity
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