Agricultural Science Past Questions

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Question 1
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The process of stopping a young animal from milk and placing it under hand feeding is

Aculling
Bbreeding
Cweaning
Disolation
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Question 2
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Management practices in a piggery include the following except

Adisinfecting pens
Bregular cleaning of feed and water troughs
Cisolating sick animals
Dweekly vaccination of pigs
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Question 3
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Which of the following factors usually affects the colour of egg yolk?

Aage of the laying hen
Btype of housing
Ctype of feed
Dcolour of the cock
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Question 4
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The mating of a white fulani bull and an N'dama cow could be termed?

AInbreeding
BLine breeding
COutbreeding
DCross breeding
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Question 5
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The act of giving birth in farm animals is called

Abrooding
Bcloning
Cparturtion
Dgestation
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Question 6
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Which of the following is not a sign of heat in farm animals?

Aloss of appetite
Brestlessness
Cudder enlargement
Dgrunting
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Question 7
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Spermatozoa are produced in the

Apenis
Btesticles
Cprostate grand
Dcowper's gland
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Question 8
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Animal which chew the cud are

Aamphibians
Baves
Cruminants
Dreptiles
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Question 9
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Birds temporarily store their food in the

Acrop
Bgizzard
Cproventriculus
Dduodenum
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Question 10
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The most active agent of physical weathering in arid regions is

Awind
Bwater
Ctemperature
Dice
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Question 11
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Plant breeders aim at obtaining the following except

Atolerance to climatic extremes
Bresistance to pests
Cadaptation of pollination
Duniformity in the time of maturity
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Question 12
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good pasture?

Ahigh quality grass
Bprovision of balance nutrients
Cability to withstand trampling
Dhigh stem to leaf ratio
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Question 13
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Pasture crops are best used in preparing hay

Awhen they are two weeks old
Bjust before flowering
Cjust after seed maturation
Dafter they have started to dry up
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Question 14
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Andropogon gayanus is commonly called

Aguinea grass
Belephant grass
Cgamba grass
Dspear grass
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Question 15
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Maize is a very important crop because apart from serving as a staple, it

Ais ploughed into the soil to increase fertility
Bcan be processes into corn flakes
Cforms the base of most livestock feeds
Dis used for producing germ oil
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Question 16
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Leguminous cover crops do not

Abind the soil particles together through their roots
Bincrease the nitrogen content of soils
Caid in improving the soil organic matter content
Dreduce the soil microbial population
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Question 17
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Improvement of yam through breeding is difficult because

Ait possesses no sexual reproductive system
Bnaturally growing types have to be used
Cits rapid multiplication is very difficult
Dits genes do not segregate
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Question 18
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Smut disease of cereals is caused by a

Abacterium
Bfungus
Cprotozoan
Dnematode
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Question 19
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The most common grazing system in West Africa is

Acontinuous grazing
Brotational grazing
Cdeferred grazing
Dzero grazing
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Question 20
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The national tree-planting campaign is aimed at stimulating

Awildlife conservation
Bafforestation
Ctaungya farming
Dforest reservation
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