entomology MCQs – Page 2

Practise focused entomology questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

entomology Mcqs
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