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Agriculture · Q120

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 120

Q120

The hybrid developed from the fusion of cytoplast of one parent and protoplast of other plant contains nucleus from one parent and cytoplasm from both the parents is called as

A.
Embryo
B.
Cybrid
Answer
C.
Zygote
D.
Hybrid

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
The hybrid developed from the fusion of the cytoplast of one parent and the protoplast of another plant containing a nucleus from one parent and cytoplasm from both parents is called a Cybrid.
A cytoplasmic hybrid or cybrid is a eukaryotic cell line produced by the fusion of a whole cell with a cytoplast. Cytoplasts are enucleated cells.
A cybrid is a hybrid cell that mixes the nuclear genes from one cell with the mitochondrial genes from another cell.