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1. Answer: (a) Murrah
Explanation: Murrah is not a breed of sheep.
2. Answer: (b) Morus alba
Explanation: Bombyx mori is the scientific name of the silk moth. The silkworm is actually the larva or caterpillar of a silk moth. The silk moth commonly lays its egg on Mulberry true. The scientific name of Mulberry Tree is Morus alba.
3. Answer: (a) cocoon
Explanation: In commercial use, silk is almost entirely limited to filaments from the cocoons of domesticated silkworms (caterpillars of several moth species belonging to the genus Bombyx).
4. Answer: (b) selecting the parents with desired properties.
Explanation: Selective breeding is the process of crossing of two selected varieties having different traits to produce a hybrid having good traits of both, e.g., some breeds of sheep possess only soft under-hair.
5. Answer: (a) removal of fleece
Explanation: In shearing, the hair of sheep is removed along with fleece. Sheep shearing is the process by which the woolen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep are shorn once each year. The annual shearing most often occurs in a shearing shed, a facility specially designed to process often hundreds and sometimes more than 3,000 sheep per day.
6. Answer: (c) sericulture
Explanation: The rearing of silkworms for obtaining silk is called 'sericulture'. Thus, meaning of sericulture or silk farming is the cultivation of silkworms or silk moths to produce silk. Sericulture is a very old occupation in India.
7. Answer: (d) Moth silk
Explanation: There are four types of natural silk produced around the world: Mulberry silk, Eri silk, Tasar silk and Muga silk. Mulberry silk contributes around as much as 90% of silk production, with the mulberry silkworm generally being regarded as the most important.
8. Answer: (a) Woollen shawl
Explanation: obtained from wool which does not required killing of animals. Wool is obtained from hairs of sheep, yak, camel, goat etc.
9. Answer: (d) Moth
Explanation: Animals that yield wool are Angora goats, Llama and Alpaca. Silkmoth lays eggs which develop into silkworms to yield silk but not wool.
10. Answer: (b) natural fibres
Explanation: Fibres obtained from plants and animals are called natural fibres. e.g Silk Wool.
11. Answer: (a) reeling the silk
Explanation: The process of taking out threads from the cocoon for use as silk is called reeling the silk. Reeling is done in special machines, which unwind the threads or fibers of silk from the cocoon.
12. Answer: (a) silk threads
Explanation: For obtaining silk, moths are reared and their cocoons are collected to get silk threads. keep eggs under hygienic conditions and under suitable conditions of temperature and humidity. The eggs are warmed to a suitable temperature for the larvae to hatch from eggs.
13. Answer: (d) All of these
Explanation: In ancient times, barks and big leaves of trees or animal skins and furs were used by people to cover themselves. The first material used for clothing is the natural fibres obtained from both plants and animal sources. These include cotton, flax, wool, leather, silk, etc.
14. Answer: (a) protein
Explanation: The caterpillar/ silkworm secretes fibre made of a protein which get hardened on being exposed to air and become silk fibre. Silkworm completely covers itself by silk fibres and this covering is called cocoon which is further processed to obtain silk fibres.
15. Answer: (a) China
Explanation: The origin of silk production and weaving is ancient and clouded in legend. The industry undoubtedly began in China, where, according to native record, it existed from sometime before the middle of the 3rd millennium bce.
16. Answer: (a) caterpillars
Explanation: Caterpillars eat day and night and increase enormously. India is the place where mostly sheep are reared for getting wool. Protein makes the silk worm. Morus Alba is scientific name of mulberry.
17. Answer: (b) Jammu and Kashmir
Explanation: Angora goats found in the state of Jammu & Kashmir in India. These are a breed of domesticated goat that produce the lustrous fibre known as mohair.
18. Answer: (c) tibet
Explanation: Yak fiber is a term widely used to refer to yak fiber wool produced from yak coat fur (Bos grunniens), a long-hair bovine found mainly in the Tibetan plateau, Himalayan region, and in parts of Central Asia and Mongolia. Hence, the yak wool is common in Tibet.
19. Answer: (a) Silk yarn
Explanation: “Silk fibres are then spun into silk threads, which are woven into silk cloth by weavers”.
20. Answer: (a) South America
Explanation: Llama and Alpaca are domesticated South American camelids. The wool produced from llama is very soft and lanolin free. Alpaca is known for its fibers used for knitted and woven items, similar to wool.
21. Answer: (b) Selective breeding
Explanation:The process of selecting parents for obtaining special characters is called selective breeding.
22. Answer: (a) herbivores
Explanation: Sheep are herbivores, which means their diet does not include meat. They typically eat seeds, grass and plants.
23. Answer: (a) Merino sheep
Explanation: Bharat Merino is the high quality wool of same property obtained from the sheep breed produced at Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, Avikanagar in India. So in India Bharat merino is the best quality of wool. The reason being its good fiber diameter, crimp, yield, color, and staple strength.
24. Answer: (b) Anthrax
Explanation: Anthrax disease is caused by Bacillus anthracis. It causes cutaneous infection. This disease is common in dock workers who carry loads. The Rhizobium is fungi and the Clostridium coliform are bacteria related.
25. Answer: (a) Kashmiri goat
Explanation: Kashmiri goat is the wool-yielding animal suitable for making Pashmina shawls.
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