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Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
-K.V. Frisch was an Austrian ethologist who receive the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine in $1913$
-His work centered on investigation of the sensory perceptions of honey bee and he was one of the first to translate the meaning of the waggle dance.
-His theory, described in his $1927$ book Aus dem leben der Bienen(translated into English as the Dancing Bees).
Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The waggle dance is a special 'figure of eight' dance that is done by the honey bee in its hive. By this, a worker tells the others where it has found nectar. It is done to give other bees information about the direction and distance to flowers that have nectar or pollen or both.

Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

Honey mainly consists of___________.

  1. Monosaccharides

  2. Disaccharides

  3. Polysaccharides

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

A mixture of monosaccharids sugars and other carbohydrates, Honey is mainly fructose(about $38\%$) and glucose(about $32\%$), with remaining sugars including maltose, Sucrose and other complex carbohydrates. It's glycemic index ranges from $31$ to $8$, depending on the variety.

Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

Tail wagging dance of bees is meant for indicating a location situated at a distance of ________.

  1. 10 m

  2. 50 m

  3. Less than 75 m

  4. More than 75 m.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
D) More than $ 75\,m $
As the food source becomes more distant the round dance is replaced by the waggle dance. The waggle dance includes information about the direction and energy required to fly to the goal. Energy expenditure is indicated by the length of time it takes to make one circuit.
Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

An animal where male carries half the chromosomes present in female is?

  1. Amoeba

  2. Gorilla

  3. Honey Bee

  4. Geometrid Moth
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Bees have a different number of chromosomes. Females, workers and queens have 32, 16 are contributed by the queen's eggs and 16 come from the drones sperm. Since drones hatch from unfertilized eggs, they only have the 16 chromosomes that were in the egg. Drones are haploid because they only have one set of chromosomes.


So, the correct answer is 'Honey Bee'.

Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

What is true in case of Honey Bee?

  1. Male diploid, female haploid

  2. Male diploid, female diploid

  3. Male haploid, female haploid

  4. Male haploid, female diploid
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
In case of honey Bees, males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid (Haplodiploidy).

So, the correct answer is 'Male haploid, female diploid'.