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entomology Mcqs
1. Young ones of fly is_________________?
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A. Grub

B. Maggot

C. Imago

D. Puparium

2. Costal margin of wing of insect is______________?
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A. Hinder margin

B. Inner margin

C. Outer margin

D. Frontal margin
3. Insect which are found every where are called___________________?
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A. Household insects

B. Cosmopolitan insects

C. None of the above

D. Store grain

4. The bees which are reared artificially as commercial business are called________________?
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A. Domestic bees

B. Wild bees

C. Jelly

D. None of above

5. Insects in which the young ones pass through complex or indirect metamorphosis are said to be _____________?
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A. Ametabola

B. Holometabola

C. Hypermetamophosis

D. Hemimetabola

6. The type of diapause which occur in winter is________________?
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A. Hibernation

B. Stravation

C. Aestivation

D. Dormancy

7. The physiological state or arrested metabolism in which development of insects is delayed irrespective of environmental factors is____________________?
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A. Tor por

B. Diapause

C. Hibernation

D. Quiescence

8. Insects belong to class__________________?
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A. Hexapoda

B. Symphyla

C. Crustacea

D. Pauropoda

9. Costal margin of wing of insect is________________?
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A. Inner margin

B. Frontal margin

C. Hinder margin

D. Outer margin

10. Chemicals, which transmit the chemical message, to individual of various species_________________?
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A. Releasers

B. Allelo chemicals

C. Primers

D. Semio chemicals

11. The young ones of exopteryotes butt aquatic in habit is?
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A. Larva

B. Nymph

C. Naiad

D. Adult

12. Viviparous insects which produced__________________?
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A. Nymph

B. None of the above

C. Eggs

D. Young ones
13. The body wall of insect which includes cuticle, epidermis and basement membrane is__________________?
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A. Exoskeleton

B. Internal skeleton

C. None of the above

D. Integument
14. The main body regions of insects are called____________________?
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A. Acrotergata

B. Antecosta

C. None of the above

D. Tagmata
15. Insects which are during day light hours are called_________________?
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A. Diurnal insects

B. Nocturnal insects

C. Non of the above

D. Crepuscular insects

16. _______________is a practice of dinning on ones own species?
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A. Cannibalism

B. Hibernation

C. Diapause

D. Non of the above

17. The form off insect after complete metamorphosis is__________________?
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A. Pupa

B. Imago

C. Puparium

D. Grub

18. Butter flies have antennae________________?
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A. Geniculate

B. Capitate

C. Flabellate

D. Clavate
19. A population or group of insects composed of a single genotype is called_____________________?
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A. Biotype

B. Pilosity

C. Phenotype

D. Genotype

20. White files have eggs______________________?
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A. Oval

B. Stalked

C. Conical

D. Elongate

21. A type of resistance in which a series of different cultivars of the same crop are infested with a series of different insect biotype of same species show no differentia intersction, such type of resistance is___________________?
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A. Horizontal resistance

B. Specific resistance

C. Cross resistance

D. General resistance

22. The study of insect is called ?
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A. Non of the above

B. Entomology

C. Applied Entomology

D. Zoology

23. Apical margin of wing of insect is____________________?
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A. Inner margin

B. Outer margin

C. Hinder margin

D. Frontal margin

24. When the fore wings are modified into halteres. they are called_________________?
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A. Halteres

B. pseudohalteres

C. Filohalteres

D. Hemelytra

25. Examples of poly phagous insect is__________________?
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A. Ants

B. Pink bollworm

C. Helicoverpa armigera

D. Green lacewing

26. These insects which lie in organized colonies or possess cast system is called___________________?
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A. None of the above

B. House hold insect

C. Social insect

D. Stored grain insect

27. It is the tendency of a plant to escape infestation is known as________________?
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A. Pest avoidance

B. Plant resistance

C. Resistance

D. Tolerance

28. A free living animal that attack and feed on other organism is called_______________?
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A. Scavenger

B. Predator

C. Parasite

D. Parasite

29. Honey bees with a row of minutes hooks on the anterior wings that catch in to the up-rolled hind border of the fore wing is_______________?
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A. Jugum

B. Frenulum

C. hamuli

D. Retainaculum

30. Campo deiform is type of_________________?
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A. Naiad

B. Eggs

C. Larvae

D. Pupae

31. Insects feed on one type of food are called __________________?
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A. Monophagous

B. Carnivorous insects

C. Polyphagous

D. Omnivorous insects

32. It is an organism which lives on or within another living organism is called_________________?
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A. Parasite

B. Predator

C. Scavengers

D. Parasitoid

33. The dorsal sclerotized region of insect body is called__________________?
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A. Pleuron

B. None of the above

C. Tergum

D. Sternum

34. Any organism which harms or causes damage to man directly or indirectly is called ?
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A. Pest

B. Inset pest

C. None of the above

D. Agricultural Insect

35. Asymmetrical mouths parts present in__________________?
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A. Thrips

B. Aphid

C. Housefly

D. None

36. Function of Exo cuticle insect is_________________?
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A. Prevent evaporation

B. Rigidity of body parts

C. Toughness and flexibility

D. impermeability of water

37. What is the function of carbohydrates enzymes in insects____________________?
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A. Fat and oil breakers

B. Protein breakers

C. Sugar breakers

D. Oxygen breakers

38. Type of reproduction in which young ones Produced form unfertilized eggs is________________?
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A. Polyenibryony

B. Vtviparity

C. Pacdogenesis

D. Parthenogenesis
39. Iocomotary movement of an organ towards a stimulus, but stimulus does not control direction of the movement is_________________?
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A. Orthokinesis

B. Uniokineses

C. Kinesis

D. Hydrokinesis

40. Suffering cause in insects due to lack of food is called________________?
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A. Aestivation

B. Dormancy

C. Non of the above

D. Starvation
41. The young ones of hemimetabolous insects or exopteryota which are terrestrial in habbit is__________________?
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A. Larva

B. Pupa

C. Naiad

D. Nymph
42. Three main part of antennae are _____________________?
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A. Scape pedicel, flagellum

B. Scape, club, flagellum

C. Ring, funicle, club

D. Pedicle, scape, club

43. Juvenile hormone ensures_______________?
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A. Maintains immature forms during larval moults

B. Causes moulting

C. Larval organism is to be made after moulting

D. 2nd and 3rd both
44. Aphid is example of____________________?
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A. Viviparous

B. Paedogenesis

C. Oviparous

D. All type of production

45. Total complete resistance against any adverse condition is called_________________?
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A. Resistance

B. Tolerance

C. Immunity

D. Plant resistance

46. Which enzyme responsible for the break down of fat and oil__________________?
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A. Proteases

B. Lipases

C. non of theses

D. Carbohydrates

47. Insects which are active at night are called________________?
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A. None of the above

B. Crepuscular insects

C. Diurnal insects

D. Nocturnal insects
48. The insects which spend their lives individually and do not lives in colonies are known as_____________________?
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A. Stored grain insects

B. Social insects

C. Solitary insects

D. Gregarious

49. Type of pupae with appendages are free and no glued to the body is_________________?
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A. Exarate

B. Obtect

C. Platyform

D. Coarctate

50. Legless larvae of coleopteran having a tiny head and a few sense organs is________________?
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A. None of these

B. Grub

C. Imago

D. Maggot