What kind of plant structure is the potato?
Correct answer D. Tuber
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What is the commercial production of fruit known as?
Correct answer B. Orcharding
Which branch of horticulture deals with growing and marketing vegetables?
Correct answer C. Olericulture
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Gulkand is prepared from the petals of which popular flower?
Correct answer C. Rose
What is the ventral tube on the first abdominal segment of a springtail called?
Correct answer B. Collophore
What is the type of parthenogenesis called in which unfertilised eggs give rise to both male and female offspring?
Correct answer C. Amphitoky
What is the tail, including the tail-like structure of an aphid, called?
Correct answer B. Cauda
What term describes the arrangement and number of bristles (setae) on the body and appendages, which is important in classifying Diptera and mites?
Correct answer A. Chaetotaxy
What are the external grooves that divide the insect body wall into areas called?
Correct answer C. Sutures
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Which sex of the lac insect produces lac?
Correct answer B. More by females than males
Which of the following insects produces silk?
Correct answer B. Bombyx mori
Which crop is attacked by the Gurdaspur borer?
Correct answer C. Sugarcane
What type of mouthparts does the sugarcane pyrilla have?
Correct answer B. Sucking
Applying all available control strategies to keep a pest population below the economic injury level is known as what?
Correct answer D. IPM
The insect head is a capsule that encloses the brain and bears the mouthparts, eyes and a pair of antennae. Which basic sections make up the mouthparts?
Correct answer D. All of these
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An insect’s body is covered by a protective cuticle made of chitin and protein, which may be soft or rigid and permeable or waterproof depending on its make-up. What kind of covering is this cuticle?
Correct answer C. Three-layered skin (cuticle)
What does KD50 stand for?
Correct answer A. Median knockdown
Which insecticide is commonly combined with lures and pheromone traps to control fruit flies?
Correct answer A. Malathion
What is the width of the strip treated in a single pass of a sprayer or other applicator called?
Correct answer B. Swath
What term describes a pesticide’s ability to remain as an effective residue because of its low volatility and chemical stability?
Correct answer B. Persistence