TEST QUESTION PAPER SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
Please read each of the following instructions carefully before attempting questions. There are 19 questions in this test paper.
Candidate has to attempt ALL the questions. All the questions are compulsory.
Marks Distribution
- Q 01 to Q 10: 10 Marks each, 150 words. [Total 100 Marks]
- Q 11 to Q 16: 15 Marks each, 200 words. [Total 90 Marks]
- Q 17 to Q 19: 20 Marks each, 250 words. [Total 60 Marks]
Answers must be written in the medium authorized in the Admission Certificate which must be stated clearly on the cover of this Question-cum-Answer (QCA) Booklet in the space provided. No marks will be given for answers written in a medium other than the authorized one.
Word limit in questions, wherever specified, should be adhered to.
Diagrams/Sketches, wherever required, may be drawn in the space provided for answering the question itself.
Attempts of questions shall be counted in sequential order. Unless struck off, attempt of a question shall be counted even if attempted partly. Any page or portion of the page left blank in the Question-cum-Answer Booklet must be clearly struck off.
1. Microbiology and Plant Pathology:
Microbiology: Structure and reproduction/multiplication of viruses, viroids, bacteria, fungi, and mycoplasma; Applications of microbiology in agriculture, industry, medicine and in control of soil and water pollution; Prion and Prion hypothesis.
Plant Pathology: Important crop diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma, fungi, and nematodes; Modes of infection and dissemination; Molecular basis of infection and disease resistance/defence; Physiology of parasitism and control measures; Fungal toxins; Modelling and disease forecasting; Plant quarantine.
2. Cryptogams:
Algae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes, pteridophytes-structure, and reproduction from evolutionary viewpoint; Distribution of Cryptogams in India and their ecological and economic importance.