MCQ
Wild varieties of plants must be conserved to:
  • A
    Destroy ecosystem.
  • B
    Feeding wild animals.
  • C
    Future evolution.
  • D
    Incorporate useful traits in future crop varieties.

Answer

  1. Incorporate useful traits in future crop varieties.

Explanation:

Wild varieties of plants must be conserved because they are of utmost value to plant breeders for producing improved and favourable varieties of plants by selecting useful genes from a wide range of their wild relatives.

In other words, new and improved varieties of crops are derived from their wild relatives by genetic modification. Useful traits are like high yielding, disease resistant, stress resistant etc.

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