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Silk fibres are obtained from the ________ of silkworms.

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cocoon

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fleece

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skin

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egg

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The correct option is A cocoon
After the larvae of silkmoths feed on the mulberry leaves and grow in size, they secrete a kind of fibrous protein which hardens around it like an enclosure. This covering around the larvae is cocoon. Silk is obtained from this cocoon of silkworm.

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