Social Structure of Bees

Q.

Is honey acidic or alkaline?

Q.

What is swarming?

Q.

Which one of the following species of the honey bee is an Italian species?

1. Apis dorsata

2. Apis florae

3. Apis cerana indica

4. Apis mellifera

Q.

The main sugar present in honey is

1. Ribose

2. Maltose

3. Laevulose

4. Dextrose

Q.

Which of the statements is incorrect about honeybees:

1. Queen bee is the largest in size

2. Worker bees outnumber the other

3. Drones produce sperm

4. They have no sense of direction

Q.

L-fructose is found in

1. Grape

2. Honey

3. Most fruits

4. Lemon

Q. Wax glands in honey bees are present on these segments.

1. 2, 3 and 4 abdominal segments of queens
2. 2, 3, 4 and 5 abdominal segments of workers
3. 1, 2 and 3 abdominal segments of workers
4. 1, 2, 3 and 4 abdominal segments of queens

Q. Which of these food ingredients do we not get from plants or animals?
(a) salt
(b) honey
(c) milk
(d) wheat

Q. Waggle dance in Honey Bee represents

1. Distance of food source
2. Direction of food source
3. Both distance and direction of food source
4. Distance and direction of enemy

Q. How many honey bees in the list given below are haploid?
Queen, Drone, Cleaners, Nurse bee

1. Four
2. Three
3. Two
4. One

Q. Select the correct statements regarding honeybees.
(i) The queen bee and the worker bees develop from fertilized eggs and are sexually females.
(ii) Males (drones) develop parthenogenetically from unfertilized eggs.
(iii) Queen bee feeds upon royal jelly and the worker bees feed upon bee bread.

1. (i) and (ii)
2. (ii) and (iii)
3. (i) and (iii)
4. (i), (ii) and (iii)

Q. (a) What is pasturage and how is it related to honey production?​

Q. What is true in case of Honey Bee?

1. Male haploid, female haploid
2. Male diploid, female diploid
3. Male diploid, female haploid
4. Male haploid, female diploid

Q. The male worker bees do the work of collecting nectar.

1. True
2. False

Q. One honey bee hive consists of different types of bees. What are they? How they differ from each other?

Q. In honey bee the drones (males) are produced from

1. Unfertilized eggs
2. Fertilized eggs
3. Larvae from unfertilized eggs, which are fed on royal jelly
4. Larvae from unfertilized eggs, which are not cared by the workers at all

Q.

1. Cannot convey the direction
2. Can convey the direction by round dance only
3. Can convey the direction by tail wagging dance only
4. Can convey the direction by round or tail wagging dance

Q. The scientist, who decoded 'the language' of bees, explained their "dances" for communication and was awarded the Noble Prize for it was

1. Charles Darwin
2. Karl von Frisch
3. Carolus Linnaeus
4. William Harvey

Q. Which of the following statements is (are) true?

1. The only job of drones is to collect honey.
2. Depending on the flora of a given area, the maximum number of hives that can be placed in one apiary can vary.
3. The drone bee lays thousands of eggs that hatch to become the new bees.
4. Worker bees are males and help in fertilising the eggs laid by the queen bee.

Q. Which pair is incorrectly matched?

1. Breeding male honey bee - Drone
2. Breeding female honey bee - Worker
3. Breeding female honey bee - Queen
4. Non breeding female honey bee - Worker

Q. Assertion :Beehives are kept in crop field during flowering period. Reason: Bees are pollinating agents.

1. Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion
2. Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion
3. Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect
4. Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect

Q. Assertion :The queen honey bee copulates only once in her life time. Reason: The honey bee queen can lay fertilized as well as unfertilized eggs.

1. (a)
2. (b)
3. (c)
4. (d)

Q. Special dance in honey bee is for

1. Reproduction
2. Destruction of enemy bees
3. Search of food
4. Convey the information of food source

Q. In honey bee, drones are produced by

1. Unfertilized eggs
2. Fertilized eggs
3. Low fed larvae
4. Larva fed with royal jelly

Q. In which of the following, parthenogenesis is observed?

1. Honey bee
2. Silkworm
3. Earthworm
4. House fly

Q.

What is royal jelly? How is it different from bee bread?

Q. Why do farmers use bee-keeping as an additional income generating activity ?

Q. Main sugar present in the honey is

1. maltose
2. levulose
3. dextrose
4. ribose.

Q. Nobel prize for deciphering the dance language of Honey Bee was awarded to

1. C. Darwin
2. K. V. Frisch
3. W. Harvey
4. H. G. Khorana

Q. Peacock females pick their mate according to the males tail. The ones with the largest and brightest tails mate more often. The given example can be related to

1. Convergent evolution
2. Adaptive radiation
3. None of the above
4. Natural selection