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How is silk obtained from the silk worm?

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Bombyx mori (silk worm) belongs to the order
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What is meant by the following term?
Sericulture
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Explain the term sericulture.
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Which of the following terms is related to silk production?
Floriculture, Tissue culture, Silviculture, Apiculture, Sericulture
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List a few health hazards that workers face in sericulture.
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The rearing of silkworm for silk is called
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Define sericulture.
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Out of the following, which are the two terms related to silk production?

Sericulture, floriculture, moriculture, apiculture and silviculture.

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Silk consists of:
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Which type of silk is obtained from Bombyx mori?
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In the silk worm, if no juvenile hormone (JH) is present when it moults, it will
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Define sericulture.
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Which of the following is not a plant fibre
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In Silkworm, if juvenile hormone is absent at the time of larval moulting, the worm will
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The rearing of silkworms for obtaining silk is called sericulture.
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What is meant by ‘sericulture’?
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Cotyledons are also called-
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What is sericulture?
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Match the names given under Column -I with their relations given under column II, choose the answer which gives the correct combination of the alphabets of the two columns
   Column — I (Name)  

 Column — II

 (Relations)
 A Bombyx mori  P  Disease of mulberry
 B Morus alba  q  Centre where silkworm egg are produced and supplied 
 C Grainage  r  Silk moth
 D Powdery mildew  s  Mulberry plant
     t  Freshly hatched silkworm
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 Name the process of rearing of silkworms for obtaining silk.