NEET Biology Class 9 Chapter 5 Improvement In Food Resources Multiple Choice Question And Answers

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Improvement In Food Resources Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. The best way to increase the yield of wheat in India is

  1. To sow seeds of improved varities
  2. To use tractors
  3. To reduce the quantity of ration consumers
  4. To remove weeds from wheat filds

Answer: 1. To sow seeds of improved varities

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Question 2. A plant cell has potential to develop into full plant. This property of the plant cell is called

  1. Tissue culture
  2. Totipotency
  3. Pleuripotency
  4. Gene cloning

Answer: 2. Totipotency

Question 3. Production of plant without fertilization is done by

  1. Vegetative propagation
  2. Transplantation
  3. Grafting
  4. None of these

Answer: 1. Vegetative propagation

Question 4. Cultivation ofbt cotton has been much the news. The prefi “bt” means

  1. “Barium-treated” cotton seeds
  2. “Bigger thread” variety of cotton with better tensile strength
  3. Production by “biotechnology” using restriction enzymes and ligases
  4. Carrying an endotoxin gene from bacillus thuringiensis

Answer: 4. Carrying an endotoxin gene from bacillus thuringiensis

Question 5. A lake with an inflow of domestic sewage rich in organic waste may result in

  1. Drying of the lake very soon due to algal bloom
  2. An increased production offih due to lot ofnutrient
  3. Death offih due to lack ofoxygen
  4. Increased population of aquatic web organism

Answer: 3. Death offih due to lack ofoxygen

Question 6. Birds specially chicken grown for meat only is known as

  1. Hybrid
  2. Broiler
  3. Bird management
  4. Bird culture

Answer: 2. Broiler

7. In poultry industry, production of hatching eggs is more expensive than the production of market eggs mainly because

  1. Cost of males and their depreciation value is high
  2. Mortality among females is usually lower when they are mated with males
  3. Number of eggs produced by hatchery flck are to be sold only as market eggs
  4. Some ofthe eggs produced by hatchery flcks are not acceptable for incubation

Answer: 4. Some ofthe eggs produced by hatchery flcks are not acceptable for incubation

Question 8. Silkworm silk is the product of

  1. The salivary gland of the larva
  2. Cutical of the adult
  3. Cuticle of the larva
  4. Salivary gland of the adult

Answer: 1. Salivary gland of the larva

Question 9. If the source is opposite to the direction of sun, then honey bee will convey the direction by

  1. Clockwise round dance
  2. Upright down tail wagging dance
  3. Anticlockwise round dance
  4. None of these

Answer: 2. Upright down tail wagging dance

Question 10. First commercial pesticide was

  1. Ddt
  2. 2,4-D
  3. Burgandy mixture
  4. Bordeaux mixture

Answer: 4. Bordeaux mixture

Question 11. The major drawback of DDT as a pesticide is that

  1. Organisms at once develop resistance to it
  2. It is signifiantly less effective than other pesticides
  3. Its cost of production is high
  4. It is not easily and rapidly degraded in nature

Answer: 3. Its cost of production is high

Question 12. Nobel prize was awarded to paul muller on the discovery of which of the following pesticides

  1. Malathion
  2. Parathion
  3. Pyrethrum
  4. Ddt

Answer: 4. Ddt

Question 13. The carnivorous fish gamusia, introduced in the lakes, ponds, etc., Control a deadly disease in india, feeds on the larvae of

  1. Nephantis
  2. Dragonfly
  3. Anopheles
  4. All of these

Answer: 3. Anopheles

Question 14. Fish which eradicates the mosquito larvae, is

  1. Anabus
  2. Rohu
  3. Gambusia
  4. Cutter fih

Answer: 3. Gambusia

Question 15. Biological control of agricultural pests, unlike the chemical control, is

  1. Toxic
  2. Polluting
  3. Very expensive
  4. Self-perpetuating

Answer: 4. Self-perpetuating

Question 16. Which of the following plants are used as green manure in crop filds and in sandy soils

  1. Dicanthium annulatum and azolla pinnata
  2. Crotalaria junecea and alhagi camelorum
  3. Calotropis procera and pitylanthus niruri
  4. Saccharum munja and lantana camara

Answer: 2. Crotalaria junecea and alhagi camelorum

Question 17. Which one of the following is a biofertilizer?

  1. Vam
  2. Sporeine
  3. Devine
  4. Agent orange

Answer: 1. Vam

Question 18. Which one of the following is an improved variety of wheat ?

  1. 77
  2. Sonalika
  3. Chandramukhi
  4. Kuber

Answer: 2. Sonalika

Question 19. Which of the following is not used for crop improvement?

  1. Inbreeding
  2. Introduction
  3. Hybridization
  4. Mutations

Answer: 1. Inbreeding

Question 20. In high yielding ‘hybrid crop varieties’ to exploit hybrid vigour, the farmers need to purchase fresh hybrid seen every year, because

  1. They are not allowed to grow their own seed
  2. The hybrid vigour is lost due to inbreeding depression
  3. The government of india has accepted dunkel’s proposals
  4. It is cheaper to purchase fresh seed

Answer: 2. The hybrid vigour is lost due to inbreeding depression

Question 21. Which of the following is a rabi cereal ?

  1. Bajra
  2. Jawar
  3. Wheat
  4. All the above

Answer: 1. Wheat

Question 22. Maize belongs to

  1. Cereals
  2. Millets
  3. Pulses
  4. Oil crop

Answer: 1. Cereals

Question 23. The most important cereal at world level is

  1. Wheat
  2. Maize
  3. Rice
  4. Oat

Answer: 3. Rice

Question 24. One of the plant introduced from new world to the old world

  1. Wheat
  2. Potato
  3. Rice
  4. Sugarcane

Answer: 2. Potato

Question 25. The principal cereal crop in india is

  1. Wheat
  2. Rice
  3. Maize
  4. Sorghum

Answer: 2. Rice

Question 26. The cheapest high-energy fruit crop of india is

  1. Banana
  2. Guava
  3. Apple
  4. Mango

Answer: 1. Banana

Question 27. Cereals are major sources of

  1. Carbohydrates
  2. Proteins
  3. Fats
  4. Vitamins

Answer: 1. Carbohydrates

Question 28. The main source of food and fodder is

  1. Lichen
  2. Cereals
  3. Fungus
  4. Cotton

Answer: 2. Cereals

Question 29. Roughages includes

  1. Cereals
  2. Millets
  3. Abundant fires
  4. Broken grams

Answer: 3. Abundant fires

Question 30. Livestock refers to

  1. Pet animals
  2. Poultry and pet animals
  3. Domestic animals that are kept for use or profit
  4. None of the above

Answer: 3. Domestic animals which are kept for use or profit

Question 31. Viral diseases of animals include

  1. Cephalitis, blue tongue, foot and mouth disease
  2. Bluetongue, foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, rabies
  3. Bluetongue, rinderpest, cephalitis, rabies
  4. None of these

Answer: 2. Bluetongue, foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, rabies

Question 32. Domestication of silk work is called

  1. Sericulture
  2. Pisciculture
  3. Apiculture
  4. Horticulture

Answer: 1. Sericulture

Question 33. Honey is

  1. Nector of flwer
  2. Nectar is stored in the honey sac.
  3. Nectar mixed with saliva and stored in honey sac
  4. Nectar and water sucked by the honey bee.

Answer: 3. Nectar mixed with saliva and stored in honey sac

Question 34. Number of queens in a hive is

  1. 20
  2. 15
  3. 20
  4. 1

Answer: 4. 1

Question 35. The honey bees exhibit bees exhibit a type of dance to communicate the location of food. This is known as

  1. Waggle dance
  2. Tap dance
  3. Round dance and waggle dance
  4. Breakdance

Answer: 3. Round dance and waggle dance

Question 36. Which one of the following insects produces honey ?

  1. Antherae paphia
  2. Apis indica
  3. Kerria lacca
  4. Bombyx mori

Answer: 2. Apis indica

Question 37. Nutritional diet of poultry birds includes

  1. Cereals, oil cakes, milk cakes, green vegetables
  2. Millets, proteins, oil cakes only
  3. Cereals, millets, proteins, oil cakes, green vegetables
  4. Proteins, oil cakes, cereals only

Answer: 3. Cereals, millets , proteins, oil cakes, green vegetables

Question 38. Pesticides are the chemicals that kill

  1. Weeds
  2. Mites
  3. Insects
  4. All of these

Answer: 4. All of these

Question 39. Most common pesticides used in the crops are

  1. Bhc, aldrin, malathion, pyrethrin
  2. Aldrin, malathion, lead arsinate, sodium floride
  3. Aldrin, malathion, sodium arsinate, lead arsinate
  4. Cryolite, aldrin, pyrethrin
  5. Answer: 1. Bhc, aldrin, malathion, pyrethrin

Question 40. The most common pesticide used in india is

  1. Baygon
  2. Bhc
  3. Ddt
  4. Endrin

Answer: 2. Bhc

Question 41. A green manure is

  1. Rice
  2. Sorghum
  3. Maize
  4. Sesbania

Answer: 4. Sesbania

Question 42. Biofertilizer include

  1. Nitrogen fiing bacteria
  2. Nitrogen fiing cyanobacteria
  3. Both bacteria and cyanobacteria
  4. Bacteria, cyanobacteria and mycorrhizal fungi

Answer: 4. Bacteria, cyanobacteria and mycorrhizal fungi

Question 43. Crop rotation is carried out for

  1. Increasing acidity of soil
  2. Decreasing fertility of soil
  3. Increasing fertility of soil
  4. All the above

Answer: 3. Increasing fertility of soil

Question 44. Ipm (integrated pest management) involves

  1. Biological control
  2. Pesticides
  3. Confusion technique
  4. Biofertilizers

Answer: 4. Biofertilizers

Question 45. Latest trend in plant disease control is

  1. Chemical control
  2. Biological control
  3. Good manure and fertilizer
  4. Breeding for disease resistance

Answer: 2. Biological control

Question 46. The use of fertilizers in farming is an example of

  1. No-cost production
  2. Low cost-production
  3. High-cost production
  4. None of the above

Answer: 2. Low cost-production

Question 47. Pasturage is related to

  1. Cattle
  2. Fihery
  3. Apiculture
  4. Poultry

Answer: 3. Apiculture

Question 48. Mullets, bhetki, pearl spots, prawns, mussels are the example of

  1. Marine fihes
  2. Fresh water fihes
  3. Fined fihes
  4. Shell fih

Answer: 1. Marine fihes

Question 49. Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium are examples of

  1. Micro-nutrients
  2. Macronutrients
  3. Fertilizer
  4. Both (1) and (2)

Answer: 2. Macronutrients

Question 50. Which one of the following is not a milch breed of cattle?

  1. Sahiwal
  2. Malvi
  3. Tharparkar
  4. Red sindhi

Answer: 2. Malvi

Question 51. Which of the following constituent of honey acts as preservative ?

  1. Formic acid
  2. Pantothenic acid
  3. Dextrin
  4. Pyridoxin

Answer: 1. Formic acid

Question 52. The drones in honey bee are

  1. Sterile male
  2. Fertile male
  3. Sterite female
  4. Fertile female

Answer: 2. Fertile male

Question 53. Which one ofthe following is not a marine fih?

  1. Tuna
  2. Salmon
  3. Sardine
  4. Mrigal

Answer: 4. Mrigal

Question 54. Silver revolution is related to

  1. Egg production
  2. Milk production
  3. Grain production
  4. Meat production

Answer: 1. Egg production

Question 55. Which one ofthe following is an exotic fih variety?

  1. Silver carp
  2. Rohu
  3. Catla
  4. Mangur

Answer: 1. Silver carp

Question 56. Which of the following cattle food is included in ‘concentrates’.?

  1. Berseem
  2. Green fodder
  3. Hay
  4. Cotton seeds

Answer: 4. Cotton seeds

Question 57. Which one is an oil yielding plant among the following?

  1. Lentil
  2. Sunflwer
  3. Cauliflwer
  4. Hibiscus

Answer: 2. Sunflwer

Question 58. To solve the food problem of the country, which among the following is necessary?

  1. Increased production and storage of food grains
  2. Easy access of people to the food grain
  3. People should have money to purchase the grains
  4. All of the above

Answer: 4. All of the above

Question 59. Which one is not a source of carbohydrate?

  1. Rice
  2. Millets
  3. Sorghum
  4. Gram

Answer: 4. Gram

Question 60. When both crops and livestock are raised on the same farm, it is known as

  1. Mixed farming
  2. Mixed cropping
  3. Inter cropping
  4. Crop rotation

Answer: 1. Mixed farming

Question 61. The technique of growing two or more different crops together in the same fild is known as

  1. Mixed cropping
  2. Mixed farming
  3. Inter-cropping
  4. Crop rotation

Answer: 1. Mixed cropping

Question 62. Rhizobium is present in

  1. Soil
  2. Root nodules of legumes
  3. Stem nodules
  4. Tumours of leaf

Answer: 2. Root nodules of legumes

Question 63. Milk does not provide

  1. Vitamins a and d
  2. Minerals like phosphorus and calcium
  3. Iron
  4. Carbohydrates, proteins and fats

Answer: 3. Iron

Question 64. Opuntia weed can be eradicated by

  1. Gambusia
  2. Cochineal isect
  3. Grass carp
  4. Both (1) and (2)

Answer: 2. Cochineal isect

Question 65. What is the pulse rate of buffalo/minute?

  1. 40-45 Min.
  2. 16-18 Min.
  3. 70-72 Min.
  4. 40-60 Min.

Answer: 1. 40-45 Min.

Question 66. The fistexperimentin artifiial insemination was performed by

  1. Spallanzani
  2. Berzelius
  3. Linneaus
  4. Aristotle

Answer: 1. Spallanzani

Question 67. Kranti, pusa agarni and pusa bold are improved varieties

  1. Urad bean
  2. Sunflwer
  3. Chick pea
  4. Mustard

Answer: 4. Mustard

Question 68. The poultry birds groomed for obtaining meat are called

  1. Layers
  2. Broilers
  3. Pork
  4. Growers

Answer: 2. Broilers

Question 69. Which one of the following is micro-nutrients?

  1. Phosphorus
  2. Potassium
  3. Nitrogen
  4. Boron

Answer: 4. Boron

Question 70. Gundhy bug is a pest of

  1. Rice
  2. Mustard
  3. Wheat
  4. Groundnut

Answer: 1. Rice

Question 71. Sustainable agriculture involves

  1. Mixed cropping
  2. Crop rotation
  3. Mixed farming
  4. All of the above

Answer: 4. All of the above

Question 72. Which of the following poultry bird lays maximum number of eggs annually?

  1. Ils-82
  2. B-77
  3. Hh-260
  4. Ibl-80

Answer: 3. Hh-260

Question 73. Iodine solution is the solution of

  1. Pure iodine
  2. Potassium iodide solution
  3. Iodine and potassium iodide solution
  4. Iodine and potassium dichromate solution

Answer: 3. Iodine and potassium iodide solution

Question 74. A solution was dropped over a slice of potato. It turned blue-black. The solution was

  1. Iodine solution
  2. Metanil solution
  3. Benedict’s solution
  4. Hcl

Answer: 1. Iodine solution

Question 75. Besides iodine which other chemical is used to test starch?

  1. Safranin
  2. Methylene blue
  3. Eosine
  4. Hcl

Answer: 1. Safranin

Question 76. An adulterant ofarhar (tuhar) dal is

  1. Brick powder
  2. Metanil yellow
  3. Kesari dal
  4. Gram dal

Answer: 2. Metanil yellow

Question 77. Metanil yellow causes

  1. Stomach ulcer
  2. Diarrhoea
  3. Cancer
  4. Paralysis

Answer: 4. Paralysis

Question 48. Mullets, bhetki, pearl spots, prawns, and mussels are the example of

  1. Agmark
  2. Isi
  3. Nafed
  4. Hafed

Answer: 1. Agmark

Question 79. Wetting arhar/tuar dal with water makes the latter yellow because of

  1. Yellow powder of
  2. Yellow pigment from dal
  3. Adulterant metanil
  4. Kesari dal

Answer: 3. Adulterant metanil

Question 80. The culture ofmarine fi fih is called

  1. Mariculture
  2. Pisciculture
  3. Aquaculture
  4. None

Answer: 1. Mariculture

Question 81. Which one of the following is not a weed?

  1. Xanthium
  2. Amaranthus
  3. Chenopodium
  4. Finger millet

Answer: 4. Figer millet

Question 82. Poultry farming is undertaken for

  1. Egg and feather production
  2. Feather and chicken meat
  3. Egg and chicken meat
  4. Milk and egg

Answer: 3. Egg and chicken meat

Question 83. Which one of the following combinations are most suitable for composite fih culture?

  1. Surface feeders and bottom feeders
  2. Middle zone feeders and bottom feeders
  3. Surface feeders only
  4. Surface feeders, middle zone feeders and bottom feeders

Answer: 4. Surface feeders, middle zone feeders, and bottom feeders

Question 84. Which one of the following is an Italian bee variety?

  1. Apis mellifera
  2. Apis dorsata
  3. Apis flrae
  4. Apis cerana indica

Answer: 1. Apis mellifera

Question 85. Potato tuber wash and iodine solution placed together change their color to

  1. Blue-black
  2. Blue
  3. Brick-red
  4. Magenta

Answer: 1. Blue-black

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