Tissue Culture
Tissue Culture: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as Plant Tissue Culture, Explant, Cellular Totipotency, Callus and Suspension Cultures, Somaclones, Somatic Hybridisation, and Applications of Plant Tissue Culture.
Important Questions on Tissue Culture
Which of the following technology is/are used for crop improvement?
Somaclonal variation appears in
Somaclonal variation can be obtained by
Cellular totipotency was demonstrated by:
The fused nucleus of the hybrid cell formed during somatic hybridisation is called _____.
Which of the following is not true for somatic cell hybridisation?
Identify the plants that are commercially propagated on a large scale using micropropagation
Virus free plants cannot be developed from
Identify the correct statement about Micro propagation
Which of the following explains that the production of transgenic plants is easier than the production of transgenic animals?
What is totipotency?
Somatic hybrids are formed when isolated _____ from two different varieties of plants are fused.
Somaclones are the plants which are genetically identical to the original plant, from which they were grown.
Write in one word:-
The capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell is known as-
Development of hybrid plant through the fusion of somatic _____ of two different plant varieties is called somatic hybridization.
The method of asexual reproduction in plants in which callus is produced is
Totipotent cells have the ability to generate a whole plant from any cell/explant.
An explant is
Identify the step that is not a part of the plant tissue culture technique.
Micro-propagation is useful
i) to recover healthy plants
ii) To generate new species
iii) To multiply genetically uniform population
iv) To produce heterozygous plant
The correct combination is:
