List of top Animal Science Questions on Animal Breeding asked in ICAR AIEEA (PG)

National Dairy Plan-I was started in which year to increase productivity of milch animals in India?

Central cattle breeding dairy farm for 'Red Sindhi' cattle is located at:

Which of the following breed of cattle come from Scotland?

Read the following statements:
(A) Freiswal is a crossbred cattle with 62.5% Holstein Friesian inheritance.
(B) Mehsana is a buffalo breed developed by crossing Murrah and Jafrabadi.
(C) Avishaan is a prolific crossbred sheep having Garole, Malpura and Patanwadi sheep inheritance.
(D) Bombay breed is a dog breed with a Jet-black colour and gold to copper eyes.
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The loci without ___________________ cause neither inbreeding depression nor heterosis.

Read the following statements:
(A). Robert Bakewell's two remarks were "Like begets like" and "Breed the best to the best".
(B). A breed or a variety may have several strains or lines identified by a given name and produced by a breeder through at least 5 generations of closed flock breeding.
(C). Selection leads to the creation of new genes.
(D). Individual selection is preferred for sex-limited traits and carcass traits.
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Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has conducted the latest 20th Livestock Census in 2019. Which of the census information statements is true?
(A). The total number of Cattle in the country was 193.46 million in 2019.
(B). The Indigenous/Non-descript Female Cattle population has increased by 10% in 2019 compared to the previous census.
(C). The total number of Cattle in the country in 2019 recorded a decline of 1.3 % over the previous Census.
(D). There is an increase of 6% in the total Indigenous (both descript and non-descript) Cattle population over the previous census.
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Which of the following is not a buffalo breed?

The parent offspring relationship is -----------% in populations where there is no inbreeding.

To construct a selection index which of the following is not necessary?

In a population with a coefficient of inbreeding F, change of mean resulting from inbreeding is

Given below are two statements:
Statement (I): Modern theory of wages is based on demand of labor only.
Statement (II): Magazine is not an accounting book.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Given below are two statements:
Statement (I): Trade tax is not included in direct taxes.
Statement (II): "Assets = Liabilities" is known as accounting equation.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Given below are two statements:
Statement (I): Law of diminishing returns is law of diminishing marginal productivity.
Statement (II): When the variable factor becomes more, it can lead to positive value of the marginal product.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

The function which determines the future course of action is called:

Who propounded Need Hierarchy Theory of motivation

The concept "changes in the frequency of social contacts, a shift from primary to secondary group relationship, informal personal to formal contractual relationship, cooperative to competitive form of relationship" is related to which of the followings:

Which of the following statement/s is/are true with context to the livestock contribution in Indian economy:
(A). The livestock sector alone contributes nearly 25.6% to total value of output in Agriculture, Fishing & Forestry sector.
(B). The overall contribution of livestock sector to total GDP is nearly 4.11%.
(C). The livestock sector alone contributes nearly 50 % to total value of output in Agriculture, Fishing & Forestry sector.
(D). The overall contribution of livestock sector to total GDP is nearly 15.11%.
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Breed Development of Livestock and Poultry; Feed and Fodder Development; Innovation and Extension are the integral part of which of the following livestock development program:

Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and other one labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Orientation of poultry house should be in East-West direction in tropical areas.
Reason (R): East-West orientation avoids ingress of direct sunlight inside the shed.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Which of the following statements are true:
(A). A separate sire and dam line is required for the production of commercial chicken crosses.
(B). The superiority of crosses over the average performance of their parent or over the better parent is called di-allele phenomenon.
(C). In flock mating, one male is required to mate 10-12 and 8-10 females for egg and meat type birds respectively.
(D). The ideal broiler possess a “V” shape body conformation.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below: