The collection of all the diverse alleles of all genes of a given crop is termed as itscollection.
A
germplasm
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B
allele
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C
genophore
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D
genome
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Solution
The correct option is A germplasm The entire collection (of plants/seeds) having all the diverse alleles of all genes in a given crop is called germplasm collection. The objective of the germplasm is to have a collection of nearly every variant so that desired traits may be chosen to produce a particular crop type.