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Nobel prize for deciphering the dance language of Honey Bee was awarded to

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  1. C. Darwin

  2. K. V. Frisch

  3. W. Harvey

  4. H. G. Khorana

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
-K.V. Frisch was an Austrian ethologist who receive the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine in $1913$
-His work centered on investigation of the sensory perceptions of honey bee and he was one of the first to translate the meaning of the waggle dance.
-His theory, described in his $1927$ book Aus dem leben der Bienen(translated into English as the Dancing Bees).

Waggle dance in Honey Bee represents

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  1. Distance of food source

  2. Direction of food source

  3. Both distance and direction of food source

  4. Distance and direction of enemy

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The waggle dance is a special 'figure of eight' dance that is done by the honey bee in its hive. By this, a worker tells the others where it has found nectar. It is done to give other bees information about the direction and distance to flowers that have nectar or pollen or both.

Life cycle of Mulberry Silkworm is completed in 

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  1. 20 days

  2. 30 day

  3. 35 days

  4. 45 days

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Correct Option: D

Honey mainly consists of___________.

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  1. Monosaccharides

  2. Disaccharides

  3. Polysaccharides

  4. Fats

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A mixture of monosaccharids sugars and other carbohydrates, Honey is mainly fructose(about $38\%$) and glucose(about $32\%$), with remaining sugars including maltose, Sucrose and other complex carbohydrates. It's glycemic index ranges from $31$ to $8$, depending on the variety.

Life span of a worker bee is _________.

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  1. 10 days

  2. 15 days

  3. 8 weeks

  4. 10 weeks

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Correct Option: D

Royal jelly is secreted from

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  1. Hypopharyngeal gland

  2. Milk gland

  3. Salivary gland

  4. Integumentary gland.

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Correct Option: A

In royal jelly percentage of maltose and other sugars is _______.

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  1. 9.2%

  2. 10.5%

  3. 11.2%

  4. 8.81%.

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Correct Option: C

Tail wagging dance of bees is meant for indicating a location situated at a distance of ________.

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  1. 10 m

  2. 50 m

  3. Less than 75 m

  4. More than 75 m.

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:
D) More than $ 75\,m $
As the food source becomes more distant the round dance is replaced by the waggle dance. The waggle dance includes information about the direction and energy required to fly to the goal. Energy expenditure is indicated by the length of time it takes to make one circuit.

An animal where male carries half the chromosomes present in female is?

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  1. Amoeba

  2. Gorilla

  3. Honey Bee

  4. Geometrid Moth

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Bees have a different number of chromosomes. Females, workers and queens have 32, 16 are contributed by the queen's eggs and 16 come from the drones sperm. Since drones hatch from unfertilized eggs, they only have the 16 chromosomes that were in the egg. Drones are haploid because they only have one set of chromosomes.


So, the correct answer is 'Honey Bee'.

What is true in case of Honey Bee?

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  1. Male diploid, female haploid

  2. Male diploid, female diploid

  3. Male haploid, female haploid

  4. Male haploid, female diploid

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:
In case of honey Bees, males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid (Haplodiploidy).

So, the correct answer is 'Male haploid, female diploid'.