CBSE Questions for Class 12 Medical Biology Strategies For Enhancement In Food Production Quiz 4 - MCQExams.com

Pisciculture is rearing and production of ...............
  • Fish
  • Birds
  • Reptiles
  • Wool yielding animals
What is the reason for the formation of embryoid from pollen grain in tissue culture medium?
  • Cellular totipotency
  • Organogenesis
  • Double fertilization
  • Test tube culture
Queen bee is adapted for ...........
  • Laying eggs
  • Laying eggs and rearing the young.
  • Preparing honey
  • Controlling other bees
Plant part used for culture is called as
  • Scion
  • Stock
  • Explant
  • Callus
Cellular totipotency is demonstrated by
  • Only gymnosperm cells
  • All plant cells
  • All eukaryotic cells
  • Only bacterial cells
 Pasturage effect honey production .
  • True
  • False
Which Indian variety of honey bee is commonly used for apiculture?
  • Apis dorsata
  • Apis florea
  • Apis mellifera
  • Apis indica
Which one of following is more advantageous for cattle breeding ?
  • Inbreeding
  • Random breeding
  • Controlled breeding
  • Artificial breeding
_________ is a setup of a number of bee hives in good desirable locations that can allow maximum nectar and pollen collection.
  • Apiary
  • Sericulture
  • Bee keeping
  • Pisciculture 
_______ is a haploid, fertile male whereas _______ is a diploid sterile female.
  • Drone, worker
  • Worker, drone 
  • Drone, queen
  • Queen, worker 
What is pasturage?
  • It is flora from which honey bees collect nectar, pollen and bee-glue
  • It is a fauna which helps in biodiversity
  • It is a technique of sterlization
  • Both A and B
An increase in the production of fish through culture fishery has been brought by ________.
  • blue revolutions
  • white revolution 
  • green revolution 
  • red revolution 
Plants providing nectar and pollen to the honey bee are collectively called 
  • Swarm
  • Bee fauna
  • Apiary
  • Pasturage
Which one of the following fishes is a surface feeder ?
  • rohu
  • mrigal
  • common carp
  • catla.
Write full form of NDRI.
  • National Dairy Research Institute.
  • National Dairy animals Research Institute
  • National Dairy farmers Research Institute
  • National Dairy and dairy animals Research Institute
Name the species of honey bee, which is used for commercial production of honey.
  • Apis mellifera
  • Apis dorsata
  • Apis florea
  • Apis indica
Composite fish culture system is commonly used for ................
  • Fish farming
  • Organic farming
  • Oyster farming
  • Crop harvesting
Which of the given product(s) are obtained from bee-keeping?
  • Honey
  • Wax
  • Bee-poison
  • All of the above
To enhance poultry production, ............. is done between Indian and exotic breeds for variety improvement.
  • Cross breeding
  • Selective breeding
  • Outcrossing
  • Both a and b 
 Example of seed borne disease among the following is:
  • Red rot of sugar cane.
  • Bacterial blight of wheat
  • Yellow Ear Rot or Tundu disease of rice
  • None of the above
Which of the following options represent synthetic hormones which are used for inducing spawning?
  • Ovaprim & Ovatide
  • Wova-FH 
  • Florigen 
  • Vernalin 
Which one of the above figures represents Queen bee?
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  • Figure A
  • Figure B
  • Figure C
  • Both A and B
What do the above figures represent?
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  • These are different castes of honey bees.
  • These are different types of waspss
  • These are different castes of house flies.
  • These are different castes of beetles. 
Micropropagation is
  • Germination of seed with cotyledons above the soil
  • A technique to obtain new plants by cultivating the cells or tissues in culture medium
  • The mature stage of endosperm
  • To manufacture sperm
Which of the following is correctly matched?
  • Apiculture - honey bee
  • Pisciculture - silk moth
  • Sericulture - fish
  • Aquaculture - mosquito
The method of asexual reproduction in plants in which callus is produced is
  • Layering
  • Grafting
  • Regeneration
  • Micropropagation
Silk, honey and lac are
  • Secretory substance of insects
  • Secretory substance of plants
  • Artificial chemicals
  • All of the above
Explant is?
  • Plant collected after harvesting
  • Exploited part of a plant
  • Small part of the plant meant for tissue culture
  • Uprooted for transplantation
The aim of plant breeding programme is to produce 
  • Disease-free varieties
  • High-yielding varieties
  • Early-maturing varieties
  • All of the above
Vegetative propagation through cell or tissue culture is known as
  • Macropropagation
  • Cloning
  • Micropropagation
  • Asexual propagation
A clone is a group of individuals obtained through 
  • Hybridisation
  • Cross-pollination
  • Self-pollination
  • Micropropagation
What is micropropagation?  
  • Germination of seed with cotyledons above the soil.
  • A technique to obtain new plants by cultivating the cells or tissues in culture medium.
  • The mature stage of endosperm.
  • To manufacture hormones.
The commercial rearing of honey bee is known as
  • Verniculture
  • Apiculture
  • Pisciculture
  • Aquaculture
Good quality fowls are____________
  • Malabari, Nurrah and Badacari
  • Gourami, Royans and Ancona
  • Minorca, Ancona and Giriraja
  • Muscovy, Royans and Jamnapuri
Honey is made by bees from :
  • Leaves
  • Flower petals
  • Flower's nectar
  • Flower style
The scientist, who decoded 'the language' of bees, explained their "dances" for communication and was awarded the Noble Prize for it was
  • Charles Darwin
  • Carolus Linnaeus
  • Karl von Frisch
  • William Harvey
The most popular exotic breed of poultry is
  • Chittagong
  • Aseel
  • Minorca
  • Kadaknath
Which of the following is an Italian bee variety?
  • Apis indica
  • Apis mellifera
  • Apis dorsata
  • Apis florea
Which of the following is known as little bee?
  • Apis indica
  • Apis florea
  • Apis dorsata
  • Apis mellifera
Cattle husbandry is done for which of the following purposes?

(i) Milk production
(ii) Agricultural work
(iii) Meat production
(iv) Egg production
  • (i), (ii) and (iii)
  • (ii), (iii) and (iv)
  • (iii) and (iv)
  • (i) and (iv)
A particular species of algae is said to have 65-71 % complete protein with all essential amino acids in perfect balance. In comparison, beef has only 22% protein. Which of the following algae is being discussed in the above case?
  • Nostoc
  • Spirulina
  • Trichodesmium
  • Anabaena
The nectar of plants is sucked by
  • Bees
  • Hummingbirds
  • Both A and B
  • None of the above
The scientist, who was awarded the Noble Prize for decoding bee language is 
  • Konrad Lorenz
  • Carolus Linnaeus
  • Karl von Frisch
  • Nikolaas Tinbergen
Complete the correlation.
Silk worm : Cocoon : : wool :
  • Jute of hemp
  • Fleece of sheep
  • Cotton plant
  • None of these
Like humans, the hairy skin of the sheep has ........ type of fibers.
  • Three
  • Two
  • Four
  • Five
Yak wool is common in_____________
  • Tibet and Ladakh
  • Only Tiber
  • Only Ladakh
  • Nepal and Tibet
Wool does not come from_________________
  • Sheep
  • Goat
  • Lion
  • Yak
Angora wool is obtained from______________
  • Sheep
  • Camel
  • Angora rabbits
  • Yak
People recovering from long illness are often advised to include the algae Spirulina in their diet because it 
  • Makes the food easy to digest
  • Is rich in proteins
  • Has antibiotic properties
  • Restores the intestinal microflora
Which of the following does not yield wool?
  • Yak
  • Camel
  • Goat
  • Woolly dog
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