Tomatoes Quiz: questions and answers
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1. What is the botanical name of tomato?
Solanum lycopersicum
2. Where is tomato originated from?
South America
3. In which country tomato was first cultivated as a food?
Mexico
4. What is the origin of the word "tomato"?
Spanish
5. Botanically, Tomato is regarded to as:
A fruit
6. Culinarily, Tomato is regarded to as:
A vegetable
7. Tomato plants are:
Dicotyledon
8. The complete genome for the cultivar Heinz 1706 was published in what year?
2012
9. When did Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research begin sequencing the tomato genome?
2004
10. Which toxic compound do leaves, stem and green unripe tomato contain?
Alkaloid tomatine