Question

What is vermiculture?
1. The science of raising worms
2. The science of studying animals
3. The science of studying fishes
4. The science of killing worms

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : The science of raising worms

The correct answer is The science of raising worms.

• Vermiculture is the scientific process of cultivating worms or artificial rearing of worms to decompose organic food wastes into a nutrient-rich material.
• It is a process of utilization of some species of earthworms to create some kind of vermicompost. 

 

Branch	Study
Vermiculture	The science of raising worms
Zoology	The science of studying animals
Ichthyology	The science of studying fishes
Herpetology	The science of studying snakes

• Zoology:
  • Zoology is a branch of biology that studies the members of the animal kingdom and animal life in general. It includes both the inquiry into individual animals and their constituent parts, even to the molecular level, and the inquiry into animal populations, entire faunas, and the relationships of animals to each other, to plants, and to the nonliving environment.
  • Through this wide range of studies results in some isolation of specialities within zoology, the conceptual integration in the contemporary study of living things that have occurred in recent years emphasizes the structural and functional unity of life rather than its diversity.
• Ichthyology:
  • Ichthyology is the scientific study of fishes, including, as is usual with a science that is concerned with a large group of organisms, a number of specialized subdisciplines: e.g., taxonomy, anatomy (or morphology), behavioural science (ethology), ecology, and physiology.
  • Because of the great importance of fishes as human food, economic ichthyology is a significant segment of the field.
• Herpetology:
  • Herpetology is the scientific study of amphibians and reptiles. 
  • Like most other fields of vertebrate biology (e.g., ichthyology, mammalogy), herpetology is composed of a number of cross-disciplines: behaviour, ecology, physiology, anatomy, palaeontology, taxonomy, and others.
  • Most students of recent forms are narrow in their interests, working on only one order or suborder (e.g., frogs, salamanders, snakes, lizards).
  • A palaeontologist is more likely to work with both amphibians and reptiles or with intermediate forms.
  • Herpetology as a unified science apparently stems from the ancient tendency to lump together all creeping (Greek herpes) animals.
  • Modern herpetology is truly popular science, in which amateurs have made many valuable contributions in such areas as distribution, behaviour, and even taxonomy.
  • The major part of the more technical research is carried out at universities and museums, as well as in the field.