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A collection of plants and seeds having diverse alleles of all the genes of a crop is called:

  1. A
    Germplasm
  2. B
    Gene library
  3. C
    Genome
  4. D
    Herbarium

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Germplasm collection is the entire collection of plants/seeds having all the diverse alleles for all genes in a given crop. It is the starting point for any plant breeding program.

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A collection of plants and seeds having diverse alleles of all the genes of a crop is called:
A
Germplasm
B
Gene library
C
Genome
D
Herbarium

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