Tomatoes Quiz: questions and answers

1. What is the botanical name of tomato?

Musa paradisicum

Solanum lycopersicum

Pyrus malus

2. Where is tomato originated from?

South America

Africa

North America

3. In which country tomato was first cultivated as a food?

America

Mexico

Brazil

4. What is the origin of the word "tomato"?

Spanish

French

German

5. Botanically, Tomato is regarded to as:

A fruit

A grain

A vegetable

6. Culinarily, Tomato is regarded to as:

A Spice

A vegetable

An oil seeds

7. Tomato plants are:

Monocotyledon

Tricotyledon

Dicotyledon

8. The complete genome for the cultivar Heinz 1706 was published in what year?

2009

2016

2012

9. When did Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research begin sequencing the tomato genome?

2004

2000

1999

10. Which toxic compound do leaves, stem and green unripe tomato contain?

Tannin

Alkaloid tomatine

Trypsin

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