Animal Husbandry

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What are milch animals?

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Name animals that give us milk.

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Discuss Indias development in the field of science and technology.

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What are the uses of dogs?

Q. Why do beekeepers use a bee smoker while inspecting the hives or harvesting honey from the hives?

I. Smoke helps to calm down the honeybees.
II. Smoke causes immediate death of the honeybees.
III. Smoke helps to mask the alert pheromones released by the honeybees.

1. I and III
2. II and III
3. Only I
4. Only III

Q. The Green Revolution succeeded in tripling the food supply but yet it was not enough to feed the growing human population. Increased yield have mainly been due to the use of:
a. Improved crop varieties
b. Better management practices
c. Agrochemicals (fertilisers and pesticides)

1. a and b
2. b and c
3. a and c
4. a, b and c

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Camels stores water in its hump.

1. True
2. False

Q. List the animals that you would expect to find in a dairy?

Q. What is polyembryony and how can it be commercially exploited?

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Explain in brief the role of animal husbandry in human welfare.

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Breeding, feeding, weeding and heeding are terms connected with?

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What is the color of Yak milk?

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What are the differences between layers and broilers and in their management?

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Name two dairy animals.

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Oilcake is used as food for cattles. Why?

Q. Regarding assertion and reason, select the correct option.
Assertion [A] : Animal husbandry is a vital skill for farmers and is as much science as it is art.
Reason [R] : It is a branch of science which deals with the improvement of domesticated animals.

1. Both A and R are correct and R explains A
2. A is correct and R is incorrect
3. Both A and R are incorrect
4. Both A and R are correct and R does not explain A

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Explain in brief the role of animal hushandry in human welfare. Answer

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Animals are poached for illegal trading for their

1. For trading them in a black market

2. Sold as exotic pets

3. Used as a delicacy

4. Used for commercial purposes such as food, décor, jewelry, and traditional medicines

5. All of the above

Q. How do good animal husbandry practices benefit farmers?

Q. With respect to understanding diseases, discuss the importanceof transgenic animal models.

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What is produced in the milk of transgenic goats?

Q. Distinguish between: (ii) Sericulture and Apiculture

Q. Give names of six fishes used for composite fish culture in India?

Q. Formation of embryo directly from nucellus and integument is

1. Apospory
2. Apogamy
3. Apomixis
4. Adventive polyembryony

Q. Why should our food contain cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables?

Q. Formation of an extra embryo from nucellus or integument is

1. Simple polyembryony
2. Cleavage polyembryony
3. Vegetative polyembryony
4. Adventive polyembryony

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Outbreeding is an important strategy of animal husbandry because it

1. is useful in overcoming inbreeding depression

2. exposes harmful recessive genes that are eliminated by selection

3. is useful in producing purelines of animals

4. helps in accumulation of superior genes

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Choose the option that correctly identifies the given statements as true or false.

I. Spontaneous polyembryony includes the examples of plants that exhibit naturally occurring polyembryony

II. True polyembryony refers to embryos’ development in more than one embryo sac in the same ovule as in Fragaria.

III. Polyembryony is common in groundnuts and oranges.

Q. ___(A)___ is a bacterial disease caused by __(B)__in birds.

1. A - Bird flu, B - Pseudomonas
2. A - Coccidiosis, B - Coccidia
3. A - Bloody diarrhoea , B - Candida albicans
4. A - Pullorum, B - Salmonella pullorum

Q. What are broilers?