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NEET 2007
Exam
NEET
Year
2007
Subject
Zoology
Chapter
Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production

NEET 2007 · Zoology · Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production

In maize, hybrid vigour is exploited by:

In maize, hybrid vigour is exploited by:

Options

  1. Acrossing of two inbred parental lines
  2. Bharvesting seeds from the most productive plants
  3. Cinducing mutations
  4. Dbombarding the seeds with DNA.

Correct answer

A. crossing of two inbred parental lines

Step-by-step solution

Hybrid vigour or heterosis is exploited by crossing of two inbred parental lines. The very objective of getting homozygous inbred parental lines is so that a perfect heterozygous can be formed.
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