Contens
Section - 1 PLANT BREEDING
1. History
2. Plant Breeding Introduction
3. Domestication and Germplasm Conservation
4. Plant Introduction
5. Modes of Reproduction
6. Male Sterility and Self Incompatibility (SI)
7. Selection
8. Mutation Breeding
9. Breeding for Disease Resistance
10. Ideotype Breeding
11. Heterosis Breeding
12. Inbreeding Depression
13. Important Points
Section - 2. GENETICS
1. Definitions
2. Gregor Johann Mendel’s Life
3. Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance
4. Back Cross and Test Cross
5. Cytoplasmic Inheritance
6. Types of Dominance
7. Linkage
8. Sex Limited Characters / Sex-Influenced Characters
9. Genic Balance Theory of Sex Determination
10. Hardy-Weinberg Principle
11. Prokaryotic Cell and Eukaryotic Cell
12. Functions of Cell Organs
13. Cell Division
14. Special Type of Chromosomes
15. DNA [Deoxy Ribose Nucleic Acid]
16. RNA [Ribose Nucleic Acid]
17. Operon Concept
Section - 3. SEED TECHNOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
1. Seed Technology and Intellectual Property Rights
Section - 4. STATISTICS
1. Introduction
2. Measures of Central Tendency
3. Measures of Dispersion
4. Experimental Design
5. Tests
6. Distributions
7. Critical Region
8. Test Statistics
9. Hypothesis
10. Error
11. Correlation
12. Regression
Section - 5. PLANT PATHOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY
1. Introduction to Plant Pathology and Microbiology
2. History
3. Disease Terminology
4. Diseases with their Primary & Secondary Source of Infection (PSI & SSI)
5. Field Crop Diseases
6. Horticultural Crops Diseases
7. Viral Disease
8. Mycoplasma / Phytoplasma Diseases
9. Bacterial Diseases
10. Disease Caused by Nematodes
11. Important Points
Section - 6. AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
1. Definitions
2. Plant Tissue Culture
3. Somatic Hybridization
4. Cybrid and Artificial Seed / Synthetic Seed
5. Sterilization Techniques
6. Genetic Engineering
7. Gene Transfer
8. PCR – Technology and DNA Finger Printing
9. Vectors
10. Markers
Section - 7. FATHER / FOUNDERS OF DIFFERENT FIELDS
1. Father / Founders of Different Fields
Section - 8. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Previously asked Questions of Plant Sciences (Memory Based)
Model Paper - 1
Model Paper - 2
Model Paper - 3
Model Paper - 4
Model Paper - 5
Model Paper - 6
Model Paper - 7
Model Paper - 8
Model Paper - 9
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