Test paper of mock test (ICAR-Animal Sciences 3.0) with answers and toppers

Mock Test on ICAR PG Examination – Animal Sciences 3.0

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1. Ricin is a compound present in legume seeds which can be destroyed by

• Soaking in water

• Heat treatment

• Germination
• Grinding

2. Rumen degradable and undegradable protein system was first proposed by

• Agricultural Research Council

• National Research Council
• Indian Agricultural Research Council
• Veterinary Council of India

3. The amino acid which has a primary role in the prevention of muscular dystrophy in chicks is

• Cysteine

• Glycine
• Histidine
• Phenylalanine

4. In feed processing, the particle size is reduced by which of the following methods

1) Cutting

2) Grating

3) Shearing

4) Impact grinding

• Only 1 and 2 are true
• Only 3 and 4 are true
• 1 and 2 are true, 3 and 4 are false

• All 1, 2, 3, 4 are true

5. The enzyme which does not have copper as integral part of it is

• Cytochrome oxidase
• Monoamine oxidase
• Tyrosinase

• Xanthine oxidase

6. A short series of ‘lectures’ usually made by 2 to 5 speakers

• Debate
• Seminar

• Symposium

• Discussion

7. A placard displayed in a public place with the purpose of creating awareness among the people

• Notice

• Poster

• Flash card
• Film sticker

8. A division to make full use of an innovation as the best course of action available

• Adoption

• Diffusion
• Innovation
• Communication

9. In ICT initiative aimed at development of farm sector

• Kisan call centre

• Information kiosk
• Internet kiosk
• Telemarketing

10. Grow more food campaign was started in the year

• 1940

• 1947

• 1952
• 1955

11. Gyandoot initiative started in

• Andhra Pradesh

• Madhya Pradesh

• Uttar Pradesh
• Haryana

12. The white fat deposition in between groups of muscles is a characteristic feature of meat of

• Horse
• Camel

• Sheep

• Fish

13. The haemal lymph nodes are found only in

• Pigs
• Cattle

• Sheep and goat

• All of the above

14. The slaughter rate in canpack dressing system is____________cattle/hour

• 10-40
• 10-75
• 40-120

• 50-150

15. The term ‘inborn errors of metabolism’ was given by

• Beadle & Tatum

• Garrod

• Muller
• Hugo de vries

16. Storing the gametes of wide variety of species by cryopreservation at one place is called

• Gene bank
• Genome bank

• Genome resource bank

• Genome reserve bank

17. Chromosome number in Turner Syndrome

• 46, XO

• 45, XO

• 46, XY
• 47, XXX

18. Inheritance pattern in ABO blood group system in humans is

• Hierarchical dominance

• Hierarchical co-dominance

• Dominance
• Recessiveness

19. Important economic traits in cattle are

• Milk yield and calving interval

• Milk yield and tupping percentage
• Milk yield and weaning weight
• Milk yield and coat color

20. Crossing over usually results in

• Overproduction of gametes
• Fertilization and development
• Formation of identical offspring

• Variation within the species

21. Iron content of Khoa should be more than

• 175ppm

• 100ppm

• 200ppm
• 250ppm

22. The solubility index for roller dried milk powder is

• 25
• 30

• 15

• 10

23. Turbidity is used for finding out the efficiency of

• Chilling
• Pasteurization

• Sterilization

• Starter activity

24. The principal carbon source for majority of the spoilage causing microorganisms in milk is due to

• Fat
• Protein

• Lactose

• Vitamins

25. The dental pad of upper jaw is absent in

• Horse

• Sheep
• Cattle
• Goat

26. During the first week of breeding the relative humidity should be

• 10-20%

• 65-70%

• 80-90%
• 30-40%

27. How many consecutive milkings should be recorded while purchasing first calving animal?

• 2

• 3

• 4
• Zero

28. Which one of the following instrument is commonly used for opening of mouth of dairy cow?

• Muzzle
• Cradle

• Gag

• Halter

29. Young suckling calf contains enzyme

• Lactase

• Galactase
• Sucrase
• Maltase

30. Dairy animals can be kept in open paddock throughout the day and night except during milking is termed as

• Conventional barn system
• Semi-intensive system

• Loose housing system

• Extensive system

31. Normal twinning rate in goats is

• 30%

• 40%

• 50%
• 60%

32. Which species has almond shaped ovaries?

• Cow
• Sow

• Ewe

• Mare

33. Konkan Kapila cattle breed is native of

• Maharashtra and Goa

• Kerala and Karnataka
• Maharashtra and Karnataka
• Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

34. Price spread is the difference between

• Producer price and consumer price

• Fixed price and variable price
• Average price and marginal price
• Average cost and marginal cost

35. The demand for livestock products in India keeps rising, because they have

• Income inelastic

• Income elastic

• Price inelastic
• Price elastic

36. What is the duration between two consecutive egg laying in chicken?

• 12-16 hrs
• 16-20 hrs

• 25-26 hrs

• 30-35 hrs

37. In which type of mating in poultry, the males are kept separately in a pen and females are brought for mating one after another

• Pen mating
• Flock mating

• Stud mating

• Shift mating

38. In poultry farm, light is essential for

• Growth

• Egg production

• Warmth
• Disease prevention

39. The safe upper limit for salts in drinking water to laying hens is

• 3000ppm

• 500ppm
• 1000ppm
• 1500ppm

40. If a coin is tossed twice, the result of second throw would not affect the result of first throw, this type of event is

• Mutually exclusive event

• Independent event

• Equally likely
• Exhaustive event

41. The percentage of items covered by mean±2σ in a normal distribution is

• 68
• 75

• 95

• 99

42. Which of the following is considered as counter current exchanger in the kidneys?

• Peritubular network

• Loop of Henle

• Vasa recta

• Efferent arterioles

43. The important feature of avian lungs in gas exchange is

• Gas flows during inspiration and expiration

• Gas flows only during inspiration
• Gas flows only during expiration
• Gas does not flow through lungs

44. What is the main function of paneth cells in small intestine?

• Absorption of nutrients
• Secretion of mucous
• Secretion of hormones

• Production of bacteriolytic enzymes

45. Normally rubriblasts develop into matured erythrocytes in

• 4-5 days

• 14-15 days
• 6-7 days
• 24-25 days

46. Prostratic secretions have high content of

• Copper

• Zinc

• Cobalt
• Iron

47. ‘Trotters’ is the term used for

• Cattle feet
• Sheep feet
• Rabbit feet

• Pig feet

48. Casings from cleaned pig stomach is called

• Chitterlings

• Maws

• Rounds
• Middles

49. The slaughter of dead animal is called as

• Cold slaughter

• Emergency slaughter
• Casualty slaughter
• Dead slaughter

50. Removal of blood vessels of carcasses in Jewish slaughter is called

• Searching
• Bunging

• Porging

• Portioning

51. Which of the following vice of the horse can be prevented by Forsell’s operation?

• Weaving

• Wind sucking

• Crib biting
• Shying

52. How much scores should be given for the mammary system while judging a dairy cow?

• 30 points

• 40 points
• 20 points
• 50 points

53. What is the recommended level of culling percentage in an organized farm?

• 0-5%
• 5-10%

• 10-20%

• 15-20%

54. A pitch of _______________ is required for thatched and tiled roof

• 1/4

• 1/6
• 1/8
• 1/10

55. Swaichal is related with which breed?

• Hallikar

• Kankrej

• Ongole
• Tharparkar

56. What is the minimum floor space requirement for a ram in groups?

• 2m²

• 8 m²

• 5 m²
• 8 m²

57. The uric acid formed from nucleic acids is oxidized in tissues of ruminants and excreted through urine in the form of

• Allantoin

• Hippuric acid
• Creatinine
• Phenaceturic acid

58. Internal faecal indicator in determining digestibility is

• Protein

• Lignin

• Chromic oxide
• Fat

59. Vitamin E is absent in

• Wheat germ oil

• Fish liver oil

• Cotton seed oil
• Sunflower oil

60. Non-ruminant roughage grazer is

• Guar
• Giraffe

• Zebra

• Deer

61. The pH of a very good silage is

• 5-4.2

• 2-4.5
• 5-4.8
• 8-5.2

62. Ideal protein is a most recent method for evaluating dietary protein for

• Chicks
• Calves

• Growing pigs

• Foals

63. If 9 out of 100 individuals in a population suffer from a homozygous recessive disorder, frequency of the disease causing allele is

• 0.7
• 0.9
• 0.09

• 0.3

64. In a locus there are three alleles A₁, A₂ and A₃ with the frequencies of 0.6,0.3 and 0.1 respectively. If the parents mates at random, the frequency of A₁A₃ genotype in the progeny generation will be

• 0.36
• 0.06
• 0.09

• 0.12

65. The cell organelle that contains hydrolytic enzymes is

• Golgi apparatus

• Lysosomes

• Mitochondria
• Ribosomes

66. Identify the given nucleic acid molecule having the following proportion of nucleotides A=33%; G=17%; T=33%; C=17%; U=0%

• Double – stranded DNA

• Single – stranded DNA
• Double – stranded RNA
• Single – stranded DNA

67. Identify the correct statement

• h² is upper limit for ‘r’

• ‘r’ is the upper limit for h²

• h² and ‘r’ are same
• h² is half the ‘r’

68. Auto sexing in chicken is based on the principle of

• Sex linked inheritance

• Co-dominance
• Recessive lethal inheritance
• Incomplete dominance

69. Computation of inbreeding coefficient of an individual from pedigreed population using path coefficient method was developed by?

• Malecot
• Haldane

• Wright

• Van vleck

70. Which one of the following is a non-parametric test?
71. Z-test
72. F-test
73. t-test

74. Chi-square test

71. The idea of sociometry was given by

• Fisher
• Osgood

• Moreno

• Stephenson

72. The term green revolution was coined by

• William Gaud

• Norman Borlaug
• MS Swaminathan
• C Subramanian

73. ATMA is an integral part of

• NATP

• NARP
• NAEP
• KVK

74. Method demonstration is

• Learning is believing
• Learning by teaching
• Seeing is believing

• Learning by doing

75. IVLP is

• Institutional Village Linkage Project

• Institutional Village Linkage Programme

• Institutional Village Linear Programme
• Institutional Village Linkage Project

76. Year of Women Empowerment

• 2001

• 2005
• 2007
• 2011

77. An act to bring about a single statue to food and to lay down science based standards is

• BIS
• ISI

• FSSAI

• MFPO

78. A set of ideas developed for the operation of co-operatives

• Rochdale principles

• Kelsey principles
• Roger principles
• Kurien principles

79. The duration for continuous method of Pasteurization of milk is

• 15 sec

• 30 sec
• 63 sec
• 72 sec

80. Homogenization of milk

• Increases the fat globule size
• Increases the protein particle size

• Decreases the fat globule size

• Decreases the protein particle size

81. The width of conventional poultry shed should not exceed

• 9m

• 12m
• 14m
• 16m

82. Haugh unit measures

• Shape index of eggs
• Quality of yolk

• Quality of albumin

• Strength of egg

83. Mating ratio for breeding quails

• 1:3

• 1:5
• 1:6
• 1:8

84. Predominate Ig in follicular fluid is

• Ig A
• Ig M

• Ig G

• Ig E

85. Mammary glands are modification of

• Oil glands

• Sebaceous glands

• Serous glands
• None

86. The QRS complex in ECG would immediately precede which of the following event?

• Ventricular relaxation

• Ventricular contraction

• Atrial contraction
• Atrial relaxation

87. In dogs the most commonly occurring coagulation defect hemophilia A is due to the deficiency of

• Factor VIII

• Factor XI
• Factor X
• Factor IX

88. The pancreas protects itself against self-digestion by making a specific inhibitor protein called

• Carboxypeptidase B
• Carboxypeptidase A
• Aminopeptidase

• Pancreatic trypsin inhibitor

89. If MP=AP, then

• AP is maximum
• AP is zero

• MP is maximum

• MP is zero

90. A summary statement of all the assets and liabilities of a business at a given point of time is

• Profit and loss statement

• Balance sheet

• Cash flow statement
• None of the above

91. Order of the efficiency of conversion of Tryptophan to Niacin?

• Pig>chicken>duck>cat
• cat>chicken>duck>pig

• chicken>pig>duck>cat

• duck>chicken>pig>cat

92. Concentration of Ammonia and Total VFA in rumen is highest for?

• Goat

• Sheep
• Buffalo
• Cattle

93. First discovered amino acid?

• Serine

• Aspargine

• Leucine
• Lysine

94. Mineral in which Glucose tolerance factor is present?

• Lithium

• Chromium

• Manganese
• Tin

95. VFA having maximum absorption rate is?

• Acetate
• Propionate

• Butyrate

• Valerate

96. Reciprocal Recurrent Selection (RRS) is used to improve

• Only GCA
• Only SCA

• Both GCA and SCA

• None

97. The BLUP method for sire evaluation was suggested by

• Lush

• Henderson

• Wright
• Fisher

98. The proportion of population which shows genetic death is

• Genetic sterility
• Genetic linkage

• Genetic load

• Genetic drift

99. If the coefficient of selection is 0.25, then the fitness is

• 1
• 0.25

• 0.75

• 0.50

100. Reproductive traits in animals usually follow __________________ heritability

• High
• Medium

• Low

• None of the above

101. Hissardale is the cross of

• Merino ewe × Bikaneri ram
• Lincoln ram × Rambouillet ewe

• Merino ram × Bikaneri ewe

• Lincoln ewe × Rambouillet ram

102. Paneer is made by

• Esterification process

• Acidification process

• Alkalization process
• Pre stratification process

103. Example for milk preservative

• Sugar
• Turmeric

• Hydrogen peroxide

• Vinegar

104. Omental fat is also called as

• Caul fat

• Suet
• Knob
• Leaf fat

105. Dried blood is rich in which amino acid?

• Lysine

• Leucine
• Methionine
• Tryptophan

106. The best water temperature for cleaning in a meat plant is

• 95-100^◦C

• 60-65^◦C

• 70-75^◦C
• 100-110^◦C

107. Which state has the highest number of indigenous milch cows?

• Uttar Pradesh

• Madhya Pradesh
• Andhra Pradesh
• Tamil Nadu

108. The time of artificial insemination in chicken is

• Early morning
• Afternoon

• Evening

• Night

109. The most critical stage factor for successful hatching of eggs is

• Temperature

• RH
• Ventilation
• Turning

110. Pigment responsible for bluish shell color is

• Oocyan

• Ooporphyrin
• Cryptoxanthin
• Leutin

111. Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana was started in the year of

• 2003

• 2007

• 2011
• 2015

112. Which one of the following objective is not an objective of National Programme for Bovine Breeding?

• To arrange quality AI services at farmers’ doorstep
• To conserve , develop and proliferate selected indigenous bovine breedsmoh high socio-economic importance

• To create training infrastructure for training of dairy farmers

• To provide quality breeding inputs in breeding tracts of important indigenous breeds

113. In which year, e-Pashu Haat was launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare?

• 2015

• 2016

• 2017
• 2014

114. Toll free number for Kisan Call Center?

• 1800-180-1151

• 1800-180-1551

• 1800-180-1151
• 1800-180-1515

115. Innovation decision process also called as

• KPDIC

• NAIDTEA
• AIDCTA
• AIETA

116. Cone of experience was given by

• Sheal

• Edger Dale

• Wilson & Gallup
• Kurt Lewin

117. Mucosal block theory is associated with the absorption of

• Cobalt

• Iron

• Zinc
• Copper

118. Crude protein equivalent for feed grade urea is

• 281

• 290
• 46
• 270

119. Anti nutritional factor present in Gliricidia tree leaves

• Tannin
• Protease inhibitor

• Coumarin

• Mimosine

120. Inherently high protected protein containing oil cake

• Rape seed cake
• Groundnut oil cake

• Coconut oil cake

• Palm kernel cake

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Toppers of the Mock Test on ICAR PG Exam – Animal Sciences 3.0

Toppers are adjudged based on their score. Only those candidates have been adjudged as toppers who have submitted the Mock Test between 4.00PM to 7.30PM on 26.07.2020.

Rank	Name of the candidate	University	No. of correct questions
1	Gaurav Dutta	OUAT, Bhubaneswar	98
2	Yash Parsana	NAU, Gujarat	92
3	Sakthi SP	TANUVAS	90
3	Vijayraghvan DP	TANUVAS	90
4	Parul Singh	IVRI, Izatnagar	89
4	Shahista Sarin	IVRI, Izatnagar	89
4	Rishi Nanda	OUAT, Bhubaneswar	89
5	Kanika Punia	RAJUVAS	88
5	Diksha Shukla	NDVSU, Jabalpur	88
6	Ahi Chaudhary	SDAU, Gujarat	87
7	Sandeep Jugran	AAU, Anand	86
7	Manoj Sharma	SKUAST-Jammu	86
7	Pooja Solanki	RAJUVAS	86
8	Mohammed Shameeh	KVASU	85
8	Amit Kumar	LUVAS, Hisar	85
8	Amir Hijazi	SKUAST	85
9	Anup Sharma	MAFSU, Nagpur	84
9	Anamika Pandey	NDVSU, Rewa	84
10	Pankaj Choubey	NDVSU	83
10	Ayushi Singh	GBPUAT, Pantnagar	83
10	Prachi Chandrakar	CGKV, Durg	83
10	Subhashree Tripathy	OUAT, Bhubaneswar	83
10	Jaskiran Kaur	NDVSU	83
10	Aseem Kumar Patra	OUAT, Bhubaneswar	83
10	Shakir Ahmed Rather	SKUAST-Kashmir	83

Results should encourage everyone to prosper for a better position. Best wishes to all the aspirants!

 

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Dr. Sandhiya M (MVSc Scholar, ICAR-IVRI)

Dr. Shyamsundar Pawale (MVSc Scholar, ICAR-IVRI)

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