EXERCISE

1. Which one of the following pairs is mismatched

(A) Pila globosa - Pearl
(B) Apis indica - Honey
(C) Kenia lacca - Lac
(D) Bombyx mori - Silk
2. Which is correctly matched
(A) Apiculture - honey bee (B) Pisciculture - silkmoth
(C) Sericulture - fish (D) Aquaculture - mosquito
3. Murrah,Mehsana, Jaffrabadi are breeds of
(A) Buffalo (B) Cow (C) Cattle (D) Horse
4. 'Inland fishries' is referred to
(A) Culturing fish in fresh water (B) Trapping and capturing fishes from seacoast
(C) Deep sea fishing (D) Extraction of oil from fishes
5. The scientific name of zebu is
(A) Bas indicus (B) Bombyx mori (C) Bubalus bubalis (D) Gallus gallus
6. The Indian carp is
(A) Scoliodon (B) Labeo (C) Torpedo (D) Pristis
7. Pearl contains how much ..... water
(A) 2-4% (B) 10% (C) 12-15% (D) 15-20%
8. Pearl producing Indian species is
(A) Pinctada indica (B) Ostrea indica (C) Pinctada vulgaris (D) Ostrea vulgaris
9. The maximum length of silken fibre which surrounds the single cocoon is about
(A) 800 to 12000 feet (B) 1000 to 1500 meter (C) 800 to 1200 feet (D) 8000 to 12000 meter
10. Which state in India is the largest producer of mulberry silk
(A) Madhya pradesh (B) Maharashtra (C) West Bengal (D) Karnataka
11. Pebrine is a disease of
(A) Honey bee (B) Fish (C) Silk worm (D) Lac insect
12. India's rank in the world in production of mulberry silk is
(A) First (B) Second (C) Third (D) Fourth
13. Earliest animal domesticated by primitive man was
(A) Goat (B) Dog (C) Horse (D) Cat
14. The milch breed of cattle are
(A) Hillikar, Nageri and Malv (B) Gir, Sahiwal and Deoni
(C) Kankrej, Haryana and Ongole (D) Tharpaker, Kangayan
15. On the basis of utility, Nagpuri buffaloes are categorised as
(A) Milkers (B) Draught cattle (C) Dual purpose (D)Grazers
16. Biggest drawback of draught animals is
(A) More consumption of bioenergy than production
(B) Short life span
(C) Early retirement
(D) Less reliability
17. The best milch breed in the world is
(A) Chittagong (B) Deoni (C) Holstein -Friesian (D) Sindhi
18. Nagpuri buffalo is a
(A) Dual purpose animal (B) Milker
(C) Draught cattle (D) All the above

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19. Gelatin, a very important raw material for preparation of photographic emulsion, is a bi-product of
(A) Chicken (B) Forest (C) Fish (D) Cattle
20. Cattle fed with spoilt hay of sweet clover which contains dicumarol
(A) Are healthier due to a good diet
(B) Catch infections easily
(C) May suffer vitamin Kdeficiency and prolonged bleeding
(D) May suffer from Beri-Beri due to deficiency of B vitamins
21. The hormone injected to cows for excessive milk production is
(A) Oestrogen (B) Progesterone (C) Oxytocin (D) Testosterone
22. To increase milk yield, cow is given
(A) Sorbitol (B) Stilbesterol (C) Prolactin (D) Ganadotrophin
23. The yellow-coloured milk secreted by cattle soon after the birth of a calf is called
(A) Chyme (B) Chyle (C) Cholesterol (D) Colostrum
24. The richest sources of vitamin B12 are
(A) Rice and hen's egg (B) Carrot and chicken's breast
(C) Goats liver and spirulina (D) Chocolate and green gram
25. Which endangered animal is source of the world's finest, lightest, warmest and most expensive wool the
shahtoosh
(A) Chiru (B) Nilgai (C) Cheetal (D) Kashmiri goat
26. The feet with two toes forming cloven hoof is seen in
(A) Horse (B) Elephant (C) Sheep (D) Zebra
27. The world's highly prized wool yielding Pashmina breed is
(A) Sheep (B) Goat
(C) Goat-sheep cross (D) Kashmir sheep- Afgan sheep cross
28. Sheep is sheared from
(A) May to December (B) August to September
(C) April to October (D) Whole of the year
29. Mule is a product of
(A) Breeding (B) Mutation (C) Hybridisation (D) Interspecific hybridisation
30. The camel's hump is composed of a tissue, which provides water when it is oxidised
(A) Skeletal (B) Muscular (C) Areolar (D) Adipose
31. The transgenic animals are those which have
(A) Foreign DNA in some of its cells (B) Foreign DNA in all its cells
(C) Foreign DNA and RNA in some of its cells (D) Foreign DNA and RNA in all its cells
32. Which of the following has been recently used for increasing productivity of super milch cow
(A) Artificial insemination by a pedigreed bull only
(B) Superovulation of a high production cow only
(C) Embryo transplantation only
(D) A combination of superovulation, artificial insemination and embryo transplantation into a 'carrier cow'
(surrogate mother)
33. Name of sheep cloned for the first time is
(A) Dolly (B) Polly (C) Molly (D) Holly
34. Super-ovulation and embryo transplantation are meant for improving
(A) Human race (B) Livestock (C) Poultry (D) Plants
35. Eri Silk worm is grown on
(A) Mulberry leaf (B) Neem leaf (C) Khaire leaf (D) Castor leaf

36. Which of the following insects is useful for us

(A) Musca (B) Bombyx (C) Pheretima (D) Periplaneta

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37. Commercial silk is obtained from
(A) Cocoon/pupa (B) Caterpillar (C) Adult moth (D) Both egg and adult moth
38. Silk industry is related to
(A) Sericulture (B) Apiculture (C) Pisciculture (D) Horticulature
39. Domestication of silkworm is called
OR
Obtaining silk from silkworms is called
(A) Sericulture (B) Pisciculture (C) Apiculture (D) Horticulture
40. Silk, honey and lac are
(A) Secretory substance of insects (B) Secretory substance of plants
(C) Artificialchemicals (D) All of the above
41. Honey is
(A) Acidic (B) Neutral (C) Alkaline (D) Basic after some days
42. Honey mainly consists of
(A) Monosaccharides (B) Disaccharides (C) Polysaccharides (D) Fats
43. Life span of worker bee is
(A) 10 days (B) 15 days (C) 6 weeks (D) 10 weeks
44. Choose the correct pair
(A) Apiculture - Honey bee (B) Sericulture - Fish
(C) Pisciculture - Silk worm (D) Aquaculture - Lac insect
45. The stimuli through which a dancing scout bee communicates the location of a food source to other
orker bees in a hive are
(A) Visual (B) Acoustic (C) Contact (D) Contact and visual
46. In poultry industry, production of hatching eggs is more expensive than the production of market eggs
mainly because
(A) Cost of males and their depreciation value is high
(B) Mortality among females is usually lower when they are mated with males
(C) Number of eggs produced by hatchery flock are to be sold only as market eggs
(D) Some of the eggs produced by hatchery flocks are not acceptable for incubation

EXERCISE
1 (A) 2 (A) 3 (A) 4 (A) 5 (A)
6 (B) 7 (A) 8 (C) 9 (B) 10 (D)

11 (C) 12 (C) 13 (B) 14 (B) 15 (A)

16 (A) 17 (C) 18 (B) 19 (D) 20 (C)

21 (C) 22 (B) 23 (D) 24 (C) 25 (A)

26 (C) 27 (B) 28 (B) 29 (D) 30 (D)

31 (B) 32 (D) 33 (A) 34 (B) 35 (D)

36 (B) 37 (A) 38 (A) 39 (A) 40 (A)

41 (A) 42 (A) 43 (C) 44 (A) 45 (D)

46 (D)

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