All Free Agriculture MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Vector
  • B. Patho-inductor
  • C. Transmission
  • D. Both a & b

Explanation: Transmission is the spread of a disease or pathogen from one individual or host to another.

Correct answer: Transmission
  • A. All of the aboveAccess Government Careers
  • B. Fungi
  • C. Protozoa
  • D. Bateria, viruses

Explanation: Pathogens include disease-causing bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa, so all the listed groups are represented.

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  • A. G.N. Agrios
  • B. Anton de Bary
  • C. Stanley
  • D. MilarditExplore Farming Tools

Explanation: Anton de Bary established the scientific study of plant diseases through his work on fungi and demonstrated the cause of potato late…

Correct answer: Anton de Bary
  • A. Stanley
  • B. Watson and Crick
  • C. Beijerinck
  • D. Adolf Mayer

Explanation: M. W. Beijerinck demonstrated that the agent causing tobacco mosaic disease was a multiplying infectious substance that passed through…

Correct answer: Beijerinck
  • A. Botany
  • B. None of theseExplore Farming Tools
  • C. Zoology
  • D. Agriculture

Explanation: Plant pathology is treated in agricultural education as the agricultural science concerned with plant diseases, their causes, and control.

Correct answer: Agriculture
  • A. Reflex (involuntary movement)
  • B. Taxis
  • C. Kinesis
  • D. Transverse orientation (Keeping a fix angle on a distance)

Explanation: Movement of an organism directionally toward or away from a stimulus is taxis; movement away from light is specifically negative…

Correct answer: Taxis
  • A. Subdivision of the ventral nerve cord
  • B. Mechanoreceptor used for proprioception
  • C. Functional unit of the compound eye
  • D. Ventral lobe of the insect's brain

Explanation: An ommatidium is one optical unit of an insect compound eye, containing photoreceptor cells that contribute to image formation.

Correct answer: Functional unit of the compound eye
  • A. By fungi parasitising animal tissues
  • B. None of These
  • C. In artificial cultures
  • D. By hypha of obligate parasite

Explanation: Haustoria are specialised absorptive branches formed by the hyphae of obligate parasitic fungi, allowing them to obtain nutrients from…

Correct answer: By hypha of obligate parasite
  • A. Rasping
  • B. Siphoning type
  • C. Sponging type
  • D. Piecing sucking type

Explanation: Jassids, aphids and true bugs pierce plant tissues and suck up sap, so they have piercing-sucking mouthparts.

Correct answer: Piecing sucking type
  • A. Costa
  • B. Collophore
  • C. Embolium
  • D. Ectoparasitoid

Explanation: The collophore is a tubular, often protrusible structure on the first abdominal segment of springtails and helps in adhesion and water…

Correct answer: Collophore
  • A. Ambulacrum
  • B. Anholocyclic
  • C. Amphitoky
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: Amphitoky is a form of parthenogenesis in which unfertilized eggs produce both male and female offspring.

Correct answer: Amphitoky
  • A. Cenchri
  • B. Annulate
  • C. Apical
  • D. Cauda

Explanation: The cauda is the tail-like projection at the posterior end of an aphid's abdomen and is commonly used in aphid identification.

Correct answer: Cauda
  • A. Chaetotaxy
  • B. Chela
  • C. Chitin
  • D. Both b & c

Explanation: Chaetotaxy means the arrangement, number, and distribution of bristles or setae on an organism, a feature especially useful in identifying…

Correct answer: Chaetotaxy
  • A. Sclerite
  • B. Somites
  • C. Sutures
  • D. Acron

Explanation: Insect body regions are divided into sclerites by external grooves called sutures.

Correct answer: Sutures
  • A. Xanthomonas
  • B. Erwinia
  • C. Pseudomonas
  • D. Corynebacterium

Explanation: Corynebacterium is a Gram-positive phytopathogenic bacterium, whereas Xanthomonas, Pseudomonas and Erwinia are generally Gram-negative.

Correct answer: Corynebacterium
  • A. Dung substratum (herbivore feces)
  • B. Deadwood
  • C. Decaying leaves
  • D. Food articles

Explanation: Coprophilic fungi are specialized to grow on dung, particularly the feces of herbivores.

Correct answer: Dung substratum (herbivore feces)
  • A. Downy mildews
  • B. Powdery mildews
  • C. Covered smut
  • D. Late blight of potato

Explanation: Erysiphe is a genus of fungi that causes powdery mildew, producing a characteristic white, flour-like growth on plant surfaces.

Correct answer: Powdery mildews
  • A. Insecticides-Herbicides
  • B. None of the aboveGreen Living & Environmental Issues
  • C. Weedicides-insecticides
  • D. Fungicides-Insecticides

Explanation: Fungicides control fungal diseases, while insecticides control insect pests. Herbicides or weedicides target weeds, not insects.

Correct answer: Fungicides-Insecticides
  • A. Pink ball worm
  • B. Jassids
  • C. Both a & b
  • D. Spotted holl worm

Explanation: The pink bollworm is one of the most destructive cotton pests because its larvae feed inside developing bolls and damage the lint and…

Correct answer: Pink ball worm
  • A. Rice
  • B. Sugarcane
  • C. Wheat
  • D. Cotton

Explanation: Gurdaspur borer, also called sugarcane stem borer, attacks the stems of sugarcane and can cause dead hearts and reduced cane yield.

Correct answer: Sugarcane