Question

Apiculture is associated with groups of plants _____
A) Grapes, Maize, Potato
B) Sugarcane, Paddy, Banna
C) Guava, Sunflower, Strawberry
D) Pineapple, Sugarcane, Strawberry

Answer 1

Hint:Agriculture refers to the science of cultivating soil, growing crops, raising livestock for earning a livelihood.

Complete answer:
Apiculture is basically associated with beekeeping and also includes cultivation of flowers for bees collection. The word apiculture is derived from a latin word “apis'' which means bee. Under it, production of honey and wax and management of bees is included.
Apiaries are generally set up around places where there are sufficient bee pastures, i.e. enough flowering plants are available.
Let us analyse the options to find the correct answer.
>Option A: Cultivation of grapes comes under viticulture and not apiculture.
Cultivation of both maize and potato comes under agriculture. Therefore, this is the incorrect option.
>Option B: Cultivation of sugarcane and paddy comes under agriculture.
Cultivation of bananas comes under horticulture. therefore, this is the incorrect option.
>Option C: Cultivation of Guava, Sunflower, Strawberry come under apiculture. Therefore, this is the correct option.
>Option D: Cultivation of pineapple and strawberry comes under apiculture.
Cultivation of sugarcane comes under agriculture, therefore, this is the incorrect option.

Thus, the correct option is (C) Guava, Sunflower, Strawberry.

Note: Different animals have different excretory products. For example,
>The excretory product of spider and cockroach is uric acid.
>The excretory product of paramecium and amoeba is ammonia.
>The excretory product of birds is uric acid.
>The excretory product of humans is urea.