Across
- 3. the induction of mutations using mutagenic agents (mutagens) such as radiation or chemicals
- 4. produced the first scientific hybrid using tobacco
- 8. What crop is the first biotech plant
- 11. Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty discovered DNA is ___material
- 13. Mather suggested the occurrence of natural cross-pollination and noted what effect?
- 14. the most basic plant breeding
- 16. In 1977, Marc Van Montagu and Jeff Schell discovered the gene transfer mechanism between ___and plants
- 18. system can introduce homozygous mutations directly into the first generation of rice and tomato transformants
- 19. is an Austrian monk and considered as the Father of Genetics
- 20. Vilmorin introduced progeny test and what breeding method?
Down
- 1. created first interspecific cross or artificial hybrid
- 2. Harlan used the what breeding selection method?
- 5. Hardy and Weinberg developed the law of ___of populations
- 6. Hull proposed ___selection method of breeding
- 7. described the ear-to-row selection method of breeding in maize
- 9. received Nobel Prize for the Green Revolution
- 10. a toxic chemical that is often used to induce polyploidy in plants
- 12. Watson, Crick, and Wilkins proposed a model for ___structure
- 15. suggested the “centers of origin”
- 17. discovered that pollen from male flowers was indispensable to fertilization and seed development on female plants
