Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production is a Class 12 Biology chapter that carries about 2.0% of the Biology questions in NEET. Practise it with 48 questions covering 3 topics, each with an explanation.
Sets of 15 questions that adapt to your level, with an explanation for every answer.
Across the 13 previous year papers, Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production had 11 questions, about 0.8 a year. The most in one paper was 3, in NEET 2021.
| Paper | Questions from this chapter |
|---|---|
| NEET 2026 | 0 |
| NEET 2025 | 0 |
| NEET 2024 | 0 |
| NEET 2023 | 0 |
| NEET 2022 | 1 |
| NEET 2021 | 3 |
| NEET 2020 | 1 |
| NEET 2019 | 1 |
| NEET 2018 | 0 |
| NEET 2017 | 1 |
| NEET 2016 | 1 |
| Re-AIPMT 2015 | 1 |
| AIPMT 2014 | 2 |
8 questions from the practice bank, spread across the chapter's topics. The full set is in the app.
Out-breeding includes:
Answer: A. out-crossing, cross-breeding and interspecific hybridisation
Why: It is the breeding of unrelated animals.
Himgiri, a variety of wheat, was developed for resistance to:
Answer: A. leaf and stripe rust
Why: Himgiri is a wheat variety bred for resistance to leaf and stripe rust along with hill bunt.
Virus-free plants can be obtained by culturing the:
Answer: A. apical or axillary meristem
Why: Meristems are generally free of viruses, even in an infected plant.
Inbreeding in cattle over several generations often leads to inbreeding depression, which is:
Answer: B. reduced fertility and productivity
Why: Continued inbreeding raises homozygosity and exposes deleterious recessive alleles, so fertility and productivity fall. Outcrossing with unrelated animals restores vigour.
Iron-fortified rice variety contains over five times as much iron as the normal variety. This is an example of:
Answer: B. biofortification
Why: The IARI has released vegetables rich in vitamins and minerals, such as vitamin C-enriched bitter gourd and bathua.
A somatic hybrid produced by fusing protoplasts of tomato and potato is called:
Answer: C. pomato
Why: Protoplast fusion allows hybrids between sexually incompatible plants.
Pisciculture refers to:
Answer: C. the rearing of fish
Why: Fisheries include the freshwater fish such as catla, rohu and common carp.
Pusa Sadabahar is a variety of:
Answer: B. chilli, resistant to chilly mosaic virus, tobacco mosaic virus and leaf curl
Why: Disease resistance reduces the use of fungicides and bactericides.
Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production carries about 2.0% of the Biology questions in NEET. Across the 13 previous year papers on NeetVictory it appeared 11 times, about 0.8 questions a year.
Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production is a Class 12 Biology chapter in the NCERT syllabus.
NeetVictory has 48 practice questions on Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production, each with an explanation, in sets of 15 that adapt to your level. This page shows a free sample.
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