Question

Domestication of the honey bee is called as
(a)Sericulture
(b)Apiculture
(c)Tissue culture
(d)Pisciculture

Answer 1

Hint: The name of the process has been derived from the biological name of the honey bees and is also called as a scientific method of rearing honey bees. It includes the care and management of these organisms.

Complete answer:
Beekeeping or apiculture is the management of colonies of honey bees, usually found in hives, by humans to collect their honey and other items produced by the hive (such as beeswax, royal jelly, propolis, and pollen), to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers or to pollinate crops.
Most such bees in the genus Apis are honey bees, but other honey-producing bees such as stingless Melipona bees are also kept.
Sericulture is the rearing of silkworms to produce silk. Pisciculture or Fish farming is a technique obtained for fish processing. Tissue culture is a technique employed in an artificial medium to cultivate cells collected from tissues.

Additional Information: For the early farmers, honey bees were probably valuable both for their honey, which is a rare sweetener for them, and for their beeswax, which probably had technical, cosmetic, and medicinal uses. Since the close interaction between humans and honey bees dates back to the beginning of agriculture, it is likely that honey bees, along with sheep and goats, were among the first creatures to begin moving down a path towards domestication when agriculture originated and spread about 10,000 years ago.
So, the correct answer is ‘Apiculture’.

Note: A beekeeper (or apiarist) keeps bees to collect their honey and other items that are created by the hive. Apiary or the bee yard is the name referred to where the bees are placed. Apiculture is the technique of scientific rearing of honey bees in a specially built wooden box and without destroying the honey and wax extract from their artificial hives from the comb base.