Question

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

Answer 1

Correct option(a) germplasm

Explanation

A germplasm is a collection of genetic resources for an organisms. For plants, the germplasm may be stored as a seed collection. It includes diverse alleles of all the genes of organism occurring in nature.