Animal Husbandry - Study Mode

[#496] Dr. V. Kurean is related to which field?
Correct Answer

(A) Milk Production

Explanation

Solution: Dr. V. Kurean is related to Milk Production field. Verghese Kurien, known as the "Father of the White Revolution" in India, was a social entrepreneur whose "billion-litre idea", Operation Flood, made dairy farming India's largest self-sustaining industry and the largest rural employment sector providing a third of all rural income. It made India the world's largest milk producer, doubled the milk available for each person, and increased milk output fourfold in 30 years.

[#497] The chromosome numbers of the swamp buffalo is
Correct Answer

(A) 48

Explanation

Solution: The chromosome number of the swamp buffalo is 48. The diploid number of chromosomes of the water buffalo was found to be 48. The autosomes consisted of 5 meta- or submetacentric and 18 acro-centric chromosome pairs and two acrocentric sex chromosomes.

[#498] Curled toe paralysis caused due to deficiency of
Correct Answer

(C) Vitamin B 2

Explanation

Solution: Curled toe paralysis is caused due to deficiency of Vitamin B 2 . Curled toe paralysis is a low riboflavin diet that may cause two types of nutritional deficiency. One of these produces a rapidly acute paralysis characterized as neuromalacia and a more slowly developing form that causes 'curled toe' paralysis in the growing chick. The signs and symptoms of riboflavin deficiency include skin disorders, hyperemia and edema of the mouth and throat, angular stomatitis, cheilosis, hair loss, reproductive problems.

[#499] Virus having RNA dependent DNA polymerase
Correct Answer

(A) Retrovirus

Explanation

Solution: Virus having RNA dependent DNA polymerase Retrovirus. Retroviruses are ssRNA viruses that replicate through a DNA intermediate, thus requiring a virus-encoded RNA-dependent DNA polymerase (reverse transcriptase). Hepatitis B virus is a dsDNA virus that replicates through an RNA intermediate using a virally encoded reverse transcriptase.

[#500] Hens usually moult in which following order?
Correct Answer

(A) Head, Neck, Body, Wing, Tail

Explanation

Solution: Hens usually moult in Head, Neck, Body, Wing, and tail order. Moulting takes place in a fairly definite order. Feathers are confined to definite tracts or areas of the body surface, with bare patches of skin between. The first plumage is lost from the head and neck, then from the saddle, breast and abdomen (body), then the wings and then from the tail.