A good quantity of fleece is one of the desired characteristics in a wool-yielding sheep.
Good quality wool is obtained from fleece having:
Assertion (A): . Wool is obtained only from the fleece of sheep or goat Reason (R): Cocoon stage is important for the extraction of wool from Sheep.
To make wool from the sheep, the fleece have to be extracted from the sheep. This process is called ___ .
You must be familiar with the following nursery rhymes:
(i) ‘Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool.’
(ii) ‘Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow.’
Answer the following:
(a) Which parts of the black sheep have wool?
(b) What is meant by the white fleece of the lamb?