In which of these insects are light-producing (photogenic) organs found?
Correct answer D. Fireflies
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In livestock, what does the term dystocia refer to?
Correct answer A. Difficult birth
In ants, bees and wasps, what are the workers?
Correct answer A. A non-reproductive female
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By what other name is vitamin B6 known?
Correct answer C. Pyridoxine
Which groups of insects are considered injurious?
Correct answer C. Agricultural pests, household pests, stored grain pests, insects of domestic animals
When is the breeding season of sheep?
Correct answer C. Spring and autumn
Which group consists entirely of productive insects?
Correct answer A. Silkworms, lac insects, honey bees
Which methods can be used to measure the digestibility of a feed?
Correct answer D. All of them
Before which event is a flushing ration fed to sheep and goats?
Correct answer A. Breeding
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What is the commercial rearing of lac insects to produce lac called?
Correct answer D. Lac culture
What are the first faeces passed by a newborn calf called?
Correct answer C. Meconium
Which insect is responsible for producing lac?
Correct answer A. Laccifer lacca
Pashmina is the extremely fine undercoat obtained from which animal?
Correct answer C. Kashmir goat
Which type of pheromone causes insects to follow one another along a path?
Correct answer A. Trail marking pheromone
Which type of pheromone warns insects of approaching danger?
Correct answer C. Alarm pheromone
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How many chromosomes are found in the body cells of cattle?
Correct answer C. 60
Which of these animals typically grows a beard?
Correct answer C. Goat
How do drones differ from workers in a honey bee colony?
Correct answer A. Drones are male while workers are sterile
What name is given to the special food fed to a queen honeybee?
Correct answer B. Royal Jelly
What term describes a cow of roughly 425 kg that consumes about 9 kg of air-dry forage each day?
Correct answer B. Animal unit