Mock Test on ICAR PG Exam – Animal Sciences 6.0 05/09/2020 by Dr. Amandeep Singh 3 Comments Welcome to your Mock Test on ICAR PG Exam - Animal Sciences 6.0 Name Email University 1. Gestation length of hamster in days isDeselect Answer 17 21 25 29 None 2. Hoof marking is used for identification ofDeselect Answer Cattle Goat Horse Pig None 3. Raikas and Rabaries are primarily ________________ rearing communitiesDeselect Answer Yak Goat Camel Mithun None 4. Subabul grass was originated in which of the following country?Deselect Answer Mexico USA India Brazil None 5. Which breed of sheep was designed by a mixture of Garole, Malpura and Patanwadi?Deselect Answer Avikalin Avivastra Avimaans Avishaan None 6. Green fodder to be ensiled should have DM betweenDeselect Answer 50 to 60% 30 to 35% 20 to 25% 15 to 20% None 7. Lucerne hay contains _________ % TDNDeselect Answer 10 30 20 50 None 8. Wind sucking is the vice observed in which of the following species?Deselect Answer Pig Cattle Horse None of above None 9. In mixed farming income from main enterprise isDeselect Answer 49% 50% 60% 70% None 10. Which of the following is not a healthy practice under milking method?Deselect Answer Intermittent milking Knuckling Full hand Stripping None 11. Which of the following plays a part in thermoregulation?Deselect Answer Hair Claws Sebaceous gland Meibomian gland None 12. Maintenance of lactation is termed asDeselect Answer Galactopoiesis Lactogenesis Mammogenesis Lactation None 13. The desirable slope of floor in tail to tail system isDeselect Answer 1:10 1:30 1:40 1:50 None 14. Just prior to breeding season, shearing of sheep flock is important becauseDeselect Answer It makes them more active& in many cases will improve their fertility It reduces fertility It enhances feed intake All the above None 15. Which disinfectant is commonly used during treatment of navel cord after birth?Deselect Answer 90% Phenol 10% Formalin 30% Tincture iodine None None 16. Which of the following is not a pseudo-ruminant?Deselect Answer Yak Camel Llama Alpaca None 17. Barbari breed of goat basically originated fromDeselect Answer India South Africa East Africa Spain None 18. Method used for controlling ectoparasites in winter season isDeselect Answer Spraying Hand bath Swim bath Dusting None 19. Average biogas produced from one cubic meter of slurry isDeselect Answer 0.15 to 0.20 M3 0.25 to 0.5 M3 1.25 to 1.5 M3 2.25 to 2.5 M3 None 20. How many animals can be milked by one machine milking unit per hour?Deselect Answer 8 12 16 20 None 21. In 2019, state with largest milk share produced around 30.5 MMT of milk isDeselect Answer Maharashtra Uttar Pradesh Punjab Madhya Pradesh None 22. As per recent census, state with largest cattle population around 19.1 Million isDeselect Answer West Bengal Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Bihar None 23. As per recent census, state with largest goat population around 20.8 Million isDeselect Answer West Bengal Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan Bihar None 24. In 2019, India’s meat production reached to ______ Million tonnesDeselect Answer 6.7 7.4 7.7 8.1 None 25. Crossbred varieties of pig developed at AAU, Guwahati isDeselect Answer HD-K75 Jahrsuk Asha Landly None 26. Pregnancy toxemia is seen inDeselect Answer Sheep and Goat Sheep and Rat Sheep and Guinea pig Sheep and Rabbit None 27. In ruminants, the ME is calculated from DE by multiplying withDeselect Answer 0.99 0.75 0.65 0.82 None 28. Application of nitrogen fertilizers in excess to forage crops leads toDeselect Answer Nitrate poisoning Vitamin D deficiency Both a & b None None 29. Efficiency of utilization of dietary calcium for milk production isDeselect Answer 20 — 30 % 55 — 65 % 90 — 95 % None None 30. Normal level of inclusion of molasses in dairy cattle ration isDeselect Answer 3.0 % 50 % 25% 10 % None 31. The efficiency of utilization of D-Lysine in chicken isDeselect Answer 95 — 100 % 45 — 50 % 70 — 75 % None None 32. 1 liter of water requires _______ calories for evaporationDeselect Answer 520 2200 580 5800 None 33. Nature of Brunners gland secretion is ____________ in natureDeselect Answer Acidic Alkaline Neutral None None 34. Oesophageal groove reflex is stimulated byDeselect Answer ADH Oxytocin ANF HCl None 35. Hormone sensitive lipase (HSL) is stimulated byDeselect Answer Insulin Glucagon Epinephrine ADH None 36. Enzymes areDeselect Answer Nutritional feed additive Technological feed additive Zootechnological feed additive Sensory feed additives None 37. Metal chelators are ____________ antioxidantsDeselect Answer Primary Secondary Tertiary None None 38. Maitenance type of roughages containDeselect Answer 3-5% CP 3-5% DCP 7-9% DCP <3% CP None 39. Reference amino acid in ideal protein concept isDeselect Answer Methionine Lysine Tryptophan Histidine None 40. Minimum available phosphorus in Breeder feed should beDeselect Answer 0.1% 0.3% 1.5% 0.5% None 41. Maximum limit for AIA in compound cattle feed (Type II) isDeselect Answer 3% 4% 5% 7% None 42. _________% of nitrogen in milk is NPNDeselect Answer 5% 10% 20% 2% None 43. _______% of NDF in total ration is critical for maintenance of normal milk fatDeselect Answer 36% 22% 13% 40% None 44. If no green fodder is available to ruminants the concentrate mixture should have Vitamin A at rate ofDeselect Answer 50000 IU 5000 IU 10000 IU 1000 IU None 45. Key Village Scheme started in yearDeselect Answer 1950 1954 1960 1952 None 46. For breed adaptation to a given climate rely onDeselect Answer Genetic potential Environmental disposition Plane of nutrition All of the above None 47. In-vivo gene regulation and down or up regulation of gene is carried out throughDeselect Answer Methylation Mutagenesis Gene editing All of the above None 48. Negative heterosis is mostly observed inDeselect Answer Fat % Lactation length Lactation Yield AFC None 49. Inbreeding has tangible adverse impact by causingDeselect Answer Enhanced homozygosity Truncated heterozygosity Reducing hybrid vigor All of the above None 50. Consider a locus with two alleles, A and a. If the frequency of AA is 0.25, what is the frequency of A under Hardy-Weinberg?Deselect Answer 0.25 0.35 0.5 0.75 None 51. Which of the following is NOT an assumption required for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?Deselect Answer No migration Random mating No selection is occurring Population size must fluctuate None 52. Imagine that a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. A certain gene presents as two different alleles, and 49% of the population is homozygous dominant. What percentage of the population is homozygous recessive?Deselect Answer 42% 9% 51% Need more information to solve it None 53. Which of the following is true of genetic drift?Deselect Answer Genetic drift helps reduce the frequency of harmful alleles in a population Genetic drift only occurs in populations at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium Genetic drift involves the random change of allele frequencies in a population None of these statements are true None 54. Term 'Genetic Slippage' was propounded byDeselect Answer Dickerson Mendel Morgan All of the above None 55. The heterosis is predominantly caused by _________________ gene actionDeselect Answer Additive gene action Overdominance Codominace All of the above None 56. The breeding value is _____________the transmitting ability of genotypeDeselect Answer Equal to Twice Four times Half None 57. Which of these measures are used to analyze the central tendency of data?Deselect Answer Mean and Normal Distribution Mean, Median and Mode Mode, Alpha and Range Standard Deviation, Range and Mean None 58. If a positively skewed distribution has a median of 50, which of the following statement is true?Deselect Answer Mean is greater than 50 Mean is less than 50 Mode is less than 50 Both A and C None 59. Shweta Kapila cattle breed is having breeding tract in which of the following state?Deselect Answer Goa Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Himachal Pradesh None 60. PD2 (Vanaraja Female) Line is developed and got recently characterized by NBAGR, which institute has pioneered this work?Deselect Answer CARI IVRI CPDO PDP Hyderabad None 61. Newly characterized breed “MALI” belongs to which species?Deselect Answer Cattle Buffalo Goat Pig None 62. For the below normal distribution, which of the following option holds true ? σ1, σ2 and σ3 represent the standard deviations for curves 1, 2 and 3 respectively.Deselect Answer σ1>σ2>σ3 σ1< σ2< σ3 σ1=σ2=σ3 None None 63. Which of the following buffalo breed has highest coarse feed conversion potential in India?Deselect Answer Surti Murrah Mehsana All of the above None 64. Crossing over is a phenomenon that happens during Meiosis in the attempt to create genetic diversity. Crossing over typically occurs between which of the following structures?Deselect Answer Sister chromatids Tetrads Homologous chromosomes Chromatin None 65. _________performed by mating the male with a number of females to produce many progenies in a different environment and over a long time period involving different seasons to nullify the impact of season, management and environment in breeding value estimation.Deselect Answer Sib selection Pedigree selection Progeny testing Family selection None 66. _________describes the accuracy with which early records of an animal's performance in a particular trait can predict its lifetime performanceDeselect Answer Heritability Repeatability Genomic selection All of the above None 67. Mechanically deboned meat isDeselect Answer Less prone to oxidative rancidity Not at all prone to oxidative rancidity More prone to oxidative rancidity None of above None 68. The most common food pathogens are inhibited at an aw ofDeselect Answer 0.85 0.88 0.91 0.92 None 69. The minimum radiation doses in Mrad for the radappertizaton of pork isDeselect Answer 3 4.7 3.7 5.1 None 70. Lactobacillus viridiscens produces hydrogen peroxide and oxidizes the meat pigment to produceDeselect Answer A red colour A grayish to greenish colour Violet colour A brownish to blackish colour None 71. Sanitary quality of food is indicated byDeselect Answer Salmonella count Enterococci and Coliform count Lactic acid bacteria count All of the above None 72. Hydroscopic properties of lactose are most utilized inDeselect Answer Pharmaceutical tablet preparation Seeding of condensed milk Baby food manufacture None of the above None 73. The most commonly used film for fresh meat vacuum packages isDeselect Answer Polyethylene Polystyrene Polyvinylidene chloride None of these None 74. Fresh sausages are mostly sold inDeselect Answer Cellulose casings Alginate formulations based casings Natural casings None of these None 75. Silica is most commonly used in the processing of plastic packaging materials asDeselect Answer Antiblock agent Antioxidant Antioxidant agent Lubricant None 76. During curing of poultry products which of the following chemical accelerates the nitrite curing reactionDeselect Answer Sodium erythorbate Sodium metabisulphite Sodium ascorbate None None 77. The level of diacetyl desired in cultured buttermilk isDeselect Answer 5 to 1.0 ppm 5 to 3.5 ppm 5 to 4.5 ppm 5 to 2.5 ppm None 78. On commercial scale edible fat is converted into oleo oil and oleo stearin for manufacture ofDeselect Answer Soap Candle Grease Margarine None 79. Which one out of the following egg product has the highest amount of cholesterol (per 100g sample)?Deselect Answer Dried whole egg powder Frozen sugared yolk Dried whole egg Fresh yolk None 80. The extract release volume of meat is inversely proportional toDeselect Answer WHC Glycolysis Fiber diameter Spoilage None 81. The food quality standards all over the world are maintained as per the guidelines ofDeselect Answer APEDA OIE ISO BIS None 82. Hydro-peroxides formed during auto-oxidation of fats areDeselect Answer Very stable and do not breakup further Very unstable and break up further giving rise to aldehydes, acids or ketones Very stable and breakup further None of above None 83. The casein/fat ratio in cheese making should be adjusted toDeselect Answer 07 1.0 50 70 None 84. The correlation in the breeding values among full sibs isDeselect Answer 1/4 1/2 1/8 None of these None 85. The character that is least affected by inbreeding depressionDeselect Answer Hatchability Body weight Mortality rate Egg production None 86. The name of the only gland present in fowl isDeselect Answer Uropygeal gland Oil gland Preen gland All the above None 87. Black Rots in eggs is most commonly caused byDeselect Answer Species of proteus Species of micrococcus or Bacillus Molds or yeasts All of these None 88. Choose the odd one out of the following. The place where CPDO doesn’t existDeselect Answer Mumbai Bhuvaneswar Pune Hasserghatta None 89. The Chromosome number (2n) of Cairina moschata isDeselect Answer 80 78 82 84 None 90. The orientation of poultry house at low temperature areas should be inDeselect Answer East west direction North South direction Northeast and southwest Any direction None 91. Shell pigment at ion occurs at _________hr before the ovipositionDeselect Answer 5 hrs 7 hrs 12 hrs 20 hrs None 92. EDS-76 is caused by which of the following virus?Deselect Answer Coronavirus Adenovirus Birnavirus None of the above None 93. Wabbee gait in poultry is due to the deficiency ofDeselect Answer Vit D3 Vit A Vit E Vit B complex None 94. Chicks have tendency to walk on hock due to the deficiency ofDeselect Answer Thiamine Niacin Riboflavin Biotin None 95. Light coloured circular spots around feather follicles and discoloured areas on the surface of skin of preserved meat is due toDeselect Answer Freezer burns Poor bleeding procedure Over Scalding Both A and C None 96. Which of the following ducks lay blue coloured eggs?Deselect Answer Muscovy Rouen Indian Runner White pekin None 97. ASCI is working under the aegis ofDeselect Answer MAHDF MSDE MANAGE MAFW None 98. eNAM networks the existing APMC mandis to create a unified ____________ market for agricultural commodities.Deselect Answer International National State Regional None 99. NIC delivers______________ centric e-servicesDeselect Answer Administrator Citizen Politician PRI None 100. Chairman of APEDA is appointed byDeselect Answer Central government APEDA Planning commission/NITI aayog MAFW None 101. MANAGE was established inDeselect Answer 1985 1986 1987 1988 None 102. 888 principle is related toDeselect Answer OHP LCD Poster Epidiascope None 103. Communication characteristics of a flashcard areDeselect Answer Sequence, surprise and storytelling Sequence, suspense and story telling Sequel, sequence and story telling Sequel, sequence and story board None 104. The total increase in milk production in India during the period from 2015-2019 is _______% higher than growth in per capita availability of milk.Deselect Answer 2 4 6 8 None 105. Pashu Aadhaar contains _______ digit UIDDeselect Answer 10 12 14 16 None 106. “Save Vechur” is a conservation programme inDeselect Answer Tamilnadu Karnataka Kerala Andhra Pradesh None 107. Companies focusing on social and environmental concerns as they do on profits are referred to asDeselect Answer Single bottom line Double bottom line Triple bottom line Tetra bottom line None 108. India’s dairy processing market anticipates an overall growth of approximately ________% in next 5 years.Deselect Answer 8 12 16 20 None 109. The best measure which is most frequently used for assessing the performance of farm business isDeselect Answer Net cash income Net operating income Net farm income Receipts None 110. Tax payable is an example ofDeselect Answer Current liability Deferred liability Equity Long term liability None 111. ___________ air sac present in birds is unpairedDeselect Answer Abdominal Interclavicular Thoracic Cervical None 112. Term Milieu intérieur or interior milieu is coined byDeselect Answer Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Robert Brown Robert Hooke Claude Bernard None 113. CCK is secreted byDeselect Answer S cell D cell EC cell I cell None 114. ________is used for blood transfusionDeselect Answer EDTA Heparin Sodium citrate Potassium oxalate None 115. _______of pre-ovulatory follicle converts to large luteal cells after ovulationDeselect Answer Theca interna cells Theca externa cells Zona pellucida Granulosa cells None 116. Predominant buffer system in plasma isDeselect Answer Phosphate buffer Protein buffer system Bicarbonate buffer system Sulphate buffer system None 117. Proportion of VFAs (A:P:B) after cellulose fermentation in rumen isDeselect Answer 70:15:15 75:15:10 65:15:20 65:20:15 None 118. Pain receptors are also called asDeselect Answer Thermoreceptors Nociceptors Mechanoreceptors Baroreceptors None 119. Time of implantation in cow isDeselect Answer 30-35 days 40-45 days 50-55 days 20-25 days None 120. Highest rouleaux formation is observed inDeselect Answer Cattle Horse Dog Pig None Please fill in the comment box below.
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