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#Question id: 4635

Which statement about natural selection is most correct?

#Zoology

Adaptations beneficial in one habitat should generally be beneficial in all other habitats as well.
Different species that occupy the same habitat will adapt to that habitat by undergoing the same genetic changes.
Adaptations beneficial at one time should generally be beneficial during all other times as well.
Well-adapted individuals leave more offspring, and thus contribute more to the next generationʹs gene pool, than do poorly adapted individuals.

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#Question id: 39262

#Plant Biotechnology

Q. Assertion: The fusion of B. napus (AACC) and B. nigra (BB) results in a hybrid with the genomic constitution AABBCC.

Reason: This specific interspecific fusion was primarily conducted to transfer resistance against Phoma lingam (black-leg disease) to rapeseed.

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#Question id: 39263

#Plant Biotechnology

Q. Assertion: Somatic hybridization between non-flowering and male sterile dihaploid clones of potato can result in male fertile hybrids.

Reason: Symmetric hybridization allows for the creation of superior hybrids and the generation of novel genetic material by bypassing traditional sexual reproduction barriers.

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#Question id: 39264

#Plant Biotechnology

Q. Assertion: Tobacco hybrids produced from N. rustica and N. tabacum may exhibit resistance to blue mould.

Reason: Blue mould resistance was a primary trait present in both parent lines and was intentionally selected for during the initial fusion process.

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#Question id: 39265

#Plant Biotechnology

Q. Assertion: Symmetric hybrids are utilized to widen the genetic base of allopolyploid species.

Reason: Producing synthetic lines of Brassica napus by fusing B. oleracea and B. campestris introduces desirable traits that might be missing in the current cultivated pool.

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#Question id: 39266

#Plant Biotechnology

Q. Assertion: Somatic hybrids of potato fused with S. brevidens are used in breeding programs to combat Potato Leaf Roll Virus (PLRV).

Reason:S. brevidens is a wild relative of the potato that carries natural resistance to certain viral and bacterial diseases like Erwinia soft rot.

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#Question id: 39267

#Plant Biotechnology

Q. Superior somatic hybrids showing 20–25% higher alkaloid content and potential for industrial scopolamine production were obtained from fusion between: