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Read the given passage and answer the six questions that follow.


Coffee’s genetic make-up is no trivial concern; 10 million tonnes of the crop were grown and sold in 2022–23. The coffee that we drink comes from two species: Coffea Canephora, which is also known as Robusta and Coffea Arabica, known as Arabica. In many cases, beans from the two species are blended to make a brew. But the beans of single species are also roasted and sold. Overall, Arabica beans represent around 56Most genetic variation in living organisms comes from hybridization with other species.


However, this is a relatively rare event for Coffea Arabica because it has more than two copies of each chromosome — a phenomenon called polyploidy. Coffea Canephora has two copies of each chromosome, but Coffea Arabica contains multiple copies. This makes it much more difficult for Arabica to interbreed with other species. As a result, Coffea Arabica’s main source of single nucleotide variation is mutation, which occurs at a steady rate over time. However, the species is also 24 relatively young, having formed as a hybrid of Robusta and Coffea Eugenioides — another coffee species that is not widely cultivated — within the past 50,000 years. From that single plant, which has basically no variation, you create the whole species, and then the variation is only the novel mutations that have occurred since that event.


Despite this, there is substantial variation in the physical characteristics of the Arabica coffee plant, including different flavour profiles in the beans and variations in disease resistance, says emeritus geneticist Juan Medrano at the UC Davis Coffee Center at the University of California, Davis. “We’re always talking about low variability at the DNA level, but there is variability at the structural level, at the chromosomal level, at the level of deletions . . . and insertions,” Medrano says.


Q) Which of the following types of variability is not very high for Coffea Arabica?

Options

A

Variability at the structural level

B

Variability at the chromosomal level.

C

Variability at the level of deletions and insertions.

D

Variability at the DNA level

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Correct Answer :

Option D

Variability at the DNA level

Solution :

The correct option is Variability at the DNA level.


Step-by-step Explanation:


1. Locate relevant information in the passage:
We need to identify which type of variability is not very high for Coffea Arabica. Let's look at the final paragraph of the passage, where Juan Medrano, an emeritus geneticist at the UC Davis Coffee Center, is quoted discussing the different levels of genetic variation.


2. Analyze the quote:
Juan Medrano states:
“We’re always talking about low variability at the DNA level, but there is variability at the structural level, at the chromosomal level, at the level of deletions . . . and insertions,” Medrano says.


3. Evaluate the options:
Based on the direct quote from the geneticist:
- Variability at the DNA level is explicitly described as "low variability" (i.e., not very high).
- Conversely, variability at the structural level, chromosomal level, and the level of deletions and insertions are mentioned as levels where variability does exist despite the low variability at the DNA level.


Therefore, "Variability at the DNA level" is the type of variability that is not very high for Coffea Arabica.

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