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Agriculture · Q938

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 938

Q938

The term cybrid refers to the

A.
Somatic hybrids
Answer
B.
Gametic hybrids
C.
Both A and B
D.
None of these

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
The term cybrid refers to Somatic hybrids.
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, that is without a nucleus or genetic material.
A cybrid is then a hybrid cell that mixes the nuclear genes from one cell with the mitochondrial genes from another cell.
It is valuable in mitochondrial research and has been used to provide suggestive evidence of mitochondrial involvement in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other conditions.