The foot and mouth disease of cattle is caused by a
- A. nematode
- B. fungus
- C. nematode
- D. bacterium
A major symptom of onion/twister is
- A. motting of leaves
- B. appearance of dark brown spots on leaves
- C. rottening of buds
- D. rottening of roots
The tree species commonly planted for pulpwood is
- A. albizia
- B. gmelina
- C. tactona
- D. cassia
The correct sequence of the components of a goat’s stomach is
- A. rum en - reti culum - abomasum -omasum
- B. rum en - reti culum - omasum - abomasum
- C. reti culum - rum en - omasum - abomasum
- D. reti culum - omasum - abomasum - rum en
Andropogon gayanus is commonly called
- A. guinea grass
- B. spear grass
- C. gamba grass
- D. elephant grass
Which of the following will not be affected by an excessive amount of water content in feeds?
- A. improving quality of such feeds
- B. decrease in nutritive value
- C. encouraging growth of molds
- D. formation of toxic products
The water-snail is important in the life cycle of
- A. coccidium
- B. tapeworm
- C. roundworm
- D. liver fluke
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good pasture?
- A. provision of balance nutrients
- B. high stem to leaf ratio
- C. high quality of grass
- D. ability to withstand trampling
Which of the following livestock endoparasite is a hermaphmdite?
- A. trypanosome
- B. roundworm
- C. liverfluke
- D. tapeworm
Gestation period is defined as the time
- A. of release of ovum from the ovary
- B. of fusion of the sperm and the egg
- C. of the birth of the young animal
- D. between conception and parturition
An accessory sex gland in bull is
- A. thyroid gland
- B. prostrate gland
- C. pancreatic gland
- D. pituitary gland
Which of the following feedstuff does not contain phosphorus?
- A. limestone
- B. fish meal
- C. blood meal
- D. oyster shell
Which of the following group of crops can be attacked by smut diseases?
- A. sugarcane, maize and banana
- B. guinea corn, sugarcane and rubber
- C. maize, guinea corn and yam
- D. rice, maize and guinea corn
One of the peculiarities of the intestine tract of a fowl is the possession of
- A. oesophageal groove
- B. cloaca
- C. large intestine
- D. stomach
New-born animals should be fed with colostrum because it
- A. provides them permanent immunity against diseases
- B. contains antibodies protecting them against diseases
- C. is easily digested
- D. is the first milk produced before birth
Weed plants which grow on other plants without deriving nutrients from them are called
- A. epiphytes
- B. saprophytes
- C. decomposers
- D. sedge
Plant breeders aim at obtaining the following except
- A. adaptation to pollination
- B. tolerance to climate extremes
- C. uniformity in the time of maturity
- D. resistance of pest
Government laws and reforms are aimed at
.
- A. discouraging investment in agriculture
- B. increasing agriculture production
- C. controlling farm profits
- D. encouraging importation of agriculture pmduce
The main aim of wildlife management is to
- A. provide lots of cheap protein
- B. reduce the population of trypanosome parasites.
- C. generate foreign exchange through exportation of meat
- D. prevent extinction of species