Multiple Choice Questions

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In honey bee, royal jelly is secreted from :

  • corp gland

  • wax gland

  • pharyngeal gland

  • salivary gland


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pharyngeal gland

In honey bees, royal jelly is secreted from pharyngeal gland of the workers. First two days all larvae of queen bees regularly fed on royal jelly.


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Triticum vulgare has been found to be presently evolved as

  • diploid

  • tetraploid

  • pentaploid

  • hexaploid


Which of the following plants are used as green manure in crop fields and in sandy soils?

  • Saccharum munja and Lantana camara

  • Dichanthium annulatum and Azolla nilotica

  • Crotalaria juncea and Alhagi camelorum

  • Calotropis procera and Phyllanthus niruri


Select the wrongly matched pair

  • Fibre - Sunhemp

  • Spice - Belladonna

  • Edible oil - Groundnut

  • Fodder - Trifolium

  • Fodder - Trifolium


Jumping genes in maize were discovered by

  • Hugo de Vries

  • Barbara McClintock

  • TH Morgan

  • Mendel


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Foolish seedling disease of rice in Japan was caused by
  • the deficiency of nitrogen

  • a bacterium

  • a fungus

  • a virus


The semi dwarf wheat which was instrumental in increasing
wheat production was developed by

  • Alexander von Humboldt

  • Paul Ehrlich

  • Dr. Kurien

  • Edward Jenner

  • Edward Jenner


Late blight of potato is caused by

  • Cystopus

  • Phytophthora

  • Alternaria

  • Ustilago


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