Read the statements given below about interspecific hybridisation in animals. Choose the right answer.

a) mating between two animals belonging to same species

b) mating between two animals belonging to different species

c) progeny of interspecific hybridisation is fertile

d) progeny of interspecific hybridisation is sterile

Q. In which of the following methods of animal breeding, mating of animals is within the same breed?

A. Inbreeding
B. Out-crossing
C. Cross-breeding
D. Interspecific hybridisation

Q. Interspecific hybridisation is mating of :

Q. Interspecific hybridisation is the mating of

Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

(i) Out-breeding is the breeding of unrelated animals which may be between individuals of the same breed but having no common ancestors for 4 - 6 generations or between different breeds or between different species.

(ii) Cross breeding allows the desirable qualities of two different breeds to be combined.

(iii) In interspecific hybridisation, male and female animals of two different but related species are mated.

Q. Which among the following statements are correct with respect to hybridisation?

Statement 1:Hybridisation of two different species of the same genus is interspecific hybridisation.
Statement 2: Hybridisation of different genera is possible.
Statement 3: Introduction of a gene is intergeneric hybridisation.