History of Plant Breeding Milestones
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Which event is considered the first evidence of plant domestication?

  • 1761-1766 Kohlreuter demonstrating hybridization in tobacco
  • 1694 Camerarius demonstrating sex in plants
  • 9000 BC Plant domestication in the hills above the Tigris river (correct)
  • 1944 Avery, MacLeod, McCarty discovering DNA heredity

Who demonstrated natural crossing in maize?

  • 1694 Camerarius
  • 1866 Mendel
  • 1761-1766 Kohlreuter
  • 1714 Mather (correct)

Which scientists proposed a model for DNA material structure in 1953?

  • Darryl Leja
  • Watson, Crick , Wilkins (correct)
  • Berg, Cohen, Boyer
  • Avery, MacLeod, McCarty

Who received the Nobel Prize for the Green Revolution in 1970?

<p>Borlaug (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does GMO stand for?

<p>Genetically Modified Organism (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which event demonstrated the transmission of traits from both parents to their offspring?

<p>Mendel’s laws of heredity rediscovered (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who developed the first GMO, 'FlavrSavr' tomato?

<p>Avery, MacLeod, McCarty (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who received the Nobel Prize for the Green Revolution?

<p>Borlaug (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In which year did Kohlreuter demonstrate that hybrid offspring received traits from both parents and were intermediate in most traits?

<p>1866 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who proposed a model for DNA material structure in 1953?

<p>Watson, Crick , Wilkins (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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