All Free Agriculture MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Cotton
  • B. Paddy
  • C. Maize
  • D. Wheat

Explanation: Cotton is a major commercial or cash crop grown primarily for sale and industrial fibre.

Correct answer: Cotton
  • A. Water management
  • B. crop farming
  • C. Agriculture
  • D. all are correct

Explanation: Agriculture is the broad field covering crop production, livestock management, animal husbandry and farming practices.

Correct answer: Agriculture
  • A. 60°F to 180°F (16°C to 82°C)
  • B. 32°F to 212°F (0°C to 100°C)
  • C. 50°F to 160°F (10°C to 71°C)
  • D. 40°F to 140°F (4°C to 60°C)

Explanation: The food-safety danger zone is conventionally 40°F to 140°F, or about 4°C to 60°C, where many bacteria multiply rapidly.

Correct answer: 40°F to 140°F (4°C to 60°C)
  • A. capra hircus
  • B. bubalus bubalis
  • C. ovis Aries
  • D. None of These

Explanation: The domestic goat is conventionally classified as Capra hircus, often written in modern taxonomy as Capra aegagrus hircus.

Correct answer: capra hircus
  • A. 60
  • B. 38
  • C. 40
  • D. 68

Explanation: Cattle have a diploid chromosome number of 60, written as 2n = 60. The numbers 38 and 40 belong to other animal species and 68 is not the…

Correct answer: 60
  • A. Boer
  • B. Alpine
  • C. Angora
  • D. Saanen

Explanation: Saanen goats are renowned for very high milk production and are commonly called the milk queen.

Correct answer: Saanen
  • A. Merino
  • B. Nali
  • C. Dorset
  • D. Suffolk

Explanation: Merino sheep produce exceptionally fine, soft wool and are widely regarded as the leading fine-wool breed.

Correct answer: Merino
  • A. 58
  • B. 60
  • C. 54
  • D. 50

Explanation: Sheep have 54 diploid chromosomes, written as 2n = 54. This distinguishes them from goats, which have 60 chromosomes, a common source of…

Correct answer: 54
  • A. Serving
  • B. Tupping
  • C. Covering
  • D. Coupling

Explanation: The specific livestock term for mating in sheep is tupping, performed by a ram.

Correct answer: Tupping
  • A. Gaddi
  • B. Leicester
  • C. Dorset
  • D. Lincoln

Explanation: The Lincoln is generally recognized as the largest and heaviest sheep breed, with a large body and heavy long wool.

Correct answer: Lincoln
  • A. 60
  • B. 54
  • C. 50
  • D. 48

Explanation: Domestic goats possess 60 diploid chromosomes, or 30 pairs. The similar-looking figure of 54 belongs to sheep.

Correct answer: 60
  • A. Viviparity
  • B. Polyembryony
  • C. Paedogenesis
  • D. Parthenogenesis

Explanation: Polyembryony occurs when several embryos, and therefore two or more individuals, develop from a single egg.

Correct answer: Polyembryony
  • A. Fawn
  • B. Kid
  • C. Calf
  • D. Lamb

Explanation: A young camel or cattle animal is called a calf. Fawn refers to a young deer, kid to a young goat, and lamb to a young sheep.

Correct answer: Calf
  • A. Spermatocyte
  • B. Spermatid
  • C. Primary oocyte
  • D. Spermatozoa

Explanation: A spermatogonium enlarges and differentiates into a primary spermatocyte before meiosis.

Correct answer: Spermatocyte
  • A. 5 to 10 mg
  • B. 10 to 20 mg
  • C. 20 to 50 mg
  • D. 50 to 100 mg

Explanation: An adult human body contains approximately 20 to 50 mg of iodine, most of it concentrated in the thyroid gland.

Correct answer: 20 to 50 mg
  • A. Dysdercus koenigi
  • B. Both a & b
  • C. Bombyx mori
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: Bombyx mori is the silkworm, whose larva spins the silk cocoon used in sericulture.

Correct answer: Bombyx mori
  • A. None of above
  • B. Urine Toxicity
  • C. Blood Toxicity
  • D. NH3 Toxicity

Explanation: Urea toxicity in ruminants results from rapid conversion of urea into ammonia, causing ammonia poisoning when detoxification is exceeded.

Correct answer: NH3 Toxicity
  • A. Supplement
  • B. Nutrition
  • C. Production Science
  • D. Biological Science

Explanation: Nutrition covers the procurement, ingestion, digestion, absorption, and use of food for maintenance, growth, reproduction, and production.

Correct answer: Nutrition
  • A. Progesterone
  • B. Estrogen
  • C. Tryodothyromine
  • D. Androgen

Explanation: Triiodothyronine, or T3, is a thyroid hormone involved in metabolic and stress-related responses in birds.

Correct answer: Tryodothyromine
  • A. 2.5 ft2
  • B. 1 ft2
  • C. 1.5 ft2
  • D. 0.5 ft2

Explanation: A broiler chick up to four weeks generally needs about 0.5 square foot of floor space.

Correct answer: 0.5 ft2