Ag Sci Applied Plant Genetics

What does the term natural selection mean?

• When a farmer selects the plants and animals he wants to use to produce offspring

• When plants and animal breed freely and aren't selected for their traits

What is progeny testing

• Testing an animals performance for different traits

• Comparing animals off spring with other animals off spring kept in the same conditions

• Comparing an animal with other animals kept in the same conditions

• Comparing animals off spring with other animals off spring kept in the different conditions

What does the term "open pollination" mean?

• pollination between two plants of the same species naturally by wind/insect or water

• The transfer of pollen by a technician from one plant to another

• The transfer of seeds from a plant

What is performance testing

• Testing the performance of an animal in the same conditions to other animal kept in the same condition

• Testing how an animal would perform in a play!

• Testing the performance of an animal in the same conditions to its offspring kept in the same condition

Which of the following are areas that cereals are assessed by the DAFM ?

• The colour at ripeness

• Straw height

• Resistance to lodging

• Disease resistance

• Earliness of ripening

What is this definition of: determining differences in the genotype of an individual organism by examining its DNA & comparing it to a reference sequence of another organisms sequence.

• Phototyping

• Genotyping

• Progeny testing

• Genetic engineering

Define the term Allele?

Define the term Genotype

Define the term phenotype

What does the term Genome mean?

• An organisms cells

• An organism's complete set of DNA

• An organisms gene on one chromosome