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Biology of Insects and Pollination

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Insect biology and pollination focus on ecological relationships, crop science, and practical applications like apiculture. These topics regularly appear in general science sections of competitive exams. Review core concepts to build accuracy for test day.

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Biology of Insects and Pollination Questions

Multiple choice biology habits and habitats of some important animals behavioural science ethology animal behaviour

In which of the following type of behaviour, females choose the male they will mate with?

  1. Courtship

  2. Instinctive

  3. Seasonal

  4. Learned
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Courtship is a kind of behaviour in which an animal attempts such actions so as to attract the opposite sex for mating. This type of behaviour includes ritualized movements like dancing, vocalizations, mechanical sound production or display of beauty. 

Thus, the correct answer is 'Courtship.'

Multiple choice biology habits and habitats of some important animals behavioural science ethology animal behaviour

Which of these builds its hive on walls using mud?

  1. Wasp

  2. Spider

  3. Tailor bird

  4. Honey bee
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Mud Dauber or Mud wasp is the name applied to the number of species of family sphecidae or Crabronidae that built their nest from mud. It is built up by the female wasps by molding the mud by its mandibles. Mud daubers are generally not aggressive but may become hostile when threatened. 

So, the correct answer is 'Wasp'.

Multiple choice biology habits and habitats of some important animals behavioural science ethology animal behaviour

The scientific name of Asian tiger mosquito ____________.

  1. Aedes aegypti

  2. Aedes albopictus

  3. Aedes taen!orhychus

  4. Aedes albolineatus
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Asian tiger mosquito is scientifically known as Aedes albopictus. This is a well-documented species in entomology and vector biology. Aedes aegypti is the yellow fever mosquito, which is different.

Multiple choice evs animals- nature's gift animal and habitat wonderful world of bholu food material and source
Types of farming Animals
A) Apiculture 1) Fowl
B) Sericulture 2) Cow
C) Cattle farming 3) Silk worm
D) Poultry Farming 4) Honey bee

  1. A- 1, B- 2, C- 3, D- 4

  2. A- 2, B- 1, C- 4, D- 3

  3. A- 4, B- 3, C- 2, D- 1

  4. A- 3, B- 1, C- 4, D- 2
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Apiculture is the rearing of honey bees (A-4). Sericulture is the rearing of silk worms (B-3). Cattle farming involves cows (C-2). Poultry farming involves fowl (D-1).

Multiple choice biology agricultural management patterns of cropping rotation of crops common irrigation systems

___________ are let out in the fields to destroy pests selectively.

  1. Birds

  2. Insects

  3. Ladybirds

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In biological control method, birds, insects and other living organisms are deliberately let out in fields to selectively kill pests. This becomes an easy method for protecting crops against selective pests.

Multiple choice botany fibre to fabric: plant fibre classification of fibres fibres history of fabric

The rearing of silkworms to obtain silk is called __________:

  1. Sericulture

  2. Horticulture

  3. Agriculture

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
$A$
In sericulture,silkworms are cultivated to produced silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, Bombyx Mori (the caterpillar of the domesticated silk moth) is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm. Silk was first produced in China as early as the Neolithic period.
Multiple choice chemistry introduction to acid and base neutralisations in everyday life acids and bases in daily life neutralisation reaction

Honey bee stings and ant bites can be _________ using alkaline medicine such as baking powder.

  1. acidifies

  2. neutralize

  3. prevented

  4. none of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The venom of honey bee and ant bites are acidic in nature. So, it's effects can be neutralised by bicarbonate of soda such a baking soda or an alkali (basic in nature). 

Multiple choice biology diseases and hygiene anaemia mosquito and human health non communicable diseases

Sting of _______cause allergy.

  1. Butterfly

  2. Grasshopper

  3. Ant

  4. Bee
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
  • Sting of bee causes allergy.
  • When a bee stings it releases bee venom into the human body which triggers allergic reactions.
  • The bee venom contains proteins which affect the skin cells and triggers the immune system to produce antibodies called Immunoglobulin that results in pain and swelling at the site of the sting.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Bee'.
Multiple choice botany the flower importance of pollination flower: parts of a flower flower and pollination

Pollination by bat is called ______________.

  1. Ornithophily

  2. Chiropterophily

  3. Malacophily

  4. Anemophily
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

  • Ornithophily means bird pollination,  is the pollination of flowering plants by birds.
  • Pollination done by Bats is known as chiropterophily. Various fruits are dependent on bats for pollination, such as mangoes, guavas, and banana. Bat pollination is an essential process in tropical communities with 500 tropical plant species. They are completely, or partially, dependent on bats for pollination.
  • Malacophily refers to pollination by snails.
  • Anemophily or wind pollination refers to a form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by wind.

So, The correct answer is option B