Breeding Pest Resistant Plants

Q.

Assertion: Intercropping checks the population of insects.

Reason: Plant pests can be controlled biologically by their natural parasites called pathogens.

Read the assertion and reason statements carefully and answer the question on the basis of the following options.

1. The assertion is true and the reason is also true; Reason is a correct explanation for Assertion.

2. The assertion is true and the reason is also true; Reason is NOT a correct explanation for Assertion.

3. The assertion is true but the reason is false.

4. The assertion is false but the reason is true.

Q. The source of insect pest resistant genes is

1. Cultivated varieties
2. Germplasm collections of the crop
3. Wild relatives
4. All of these