Strategies For Enhancement In Food Production Question 164

Question: Hybrid vigour is mostly due to [Pb. PMT 2000; MHCET 2003, 04; DPMT 2004]

Options:

A) Superiority of all the genes

B) Homozygosity of pure characters

C) Heterozygosity

D) None of these

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Answer:

Correct Answer: C

Solution:

Hybrid vigour is also called heterosis.

It results from the union of genetically different gametes (heterozygosity).