ICAR JRF Exam Entomology Syllabus

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ICAR Junior Research Fellowship Exam is conducted by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi for admission to different Master Degree Programmes

Here I am giving you syllabus for the ICAR JRF Exam Entomology which you are looking for.

Entomology And Nematology Subjects:
Agricultural/ Horticultural Entomology,
Sericulture
Plant Protection
Nematology
Apiculture

Detailed Syllabus:
Importance of Agriculture in national economy
Basic principles of crop production
Varietal Improvement
Importance of heterosis in crop production
Crop protection principles in field and storage
Major insect pests and diseases of agricultural crops like rice, cotton, pulses, oilseed Crops like groundnut, soybean and mustard, vegetables like tomato, cole crops
Fruit crops like mango and banana and their management principles
Transgenic crops
Important rural development programmes in India
Organizational set up of agricultural research
Education and extension in India
Elements of statistics
Cultivation of rice ,wheat, chickpea, pigeon-pea, sugarcane, groundnut, tomato, cole crops, mango, grapes, banana, oilseeds other than groundnut, soybean and mustard. Major soils of India
Role of NPK and their deficiency symptoms.
Mendelian genetics
Elementary knowledge of photosynthesis
Respiration and transpiration
Major cropping systems (rice-wheat cropping, crop rotations, mixed cropping)
Soil Degradation-Soil Salinity And Acidity And Management
Some aspects of post-harvest technology

For your idea , here I am providing list of few Questions of ICAR JRF exam.

1. Which one of the following is not a legume crop?
(A)Wheat (B) Peas
(C) Beans (D) Groundnut

2. Total cultivated area in India is close to
(A) 500 Mha (B) 400 Mha
(C) 180 Mha (D) 60 Mha

3. Nitrogen deficiency in plants leads to
(A) Chlolorosis (B) Excessive growth
(C) Profuse flowering (D) Dark green colour

4. The two major races of rice are.
(A) Europian and tropical (B) Indica and Japonica
(C) Asiatic and American (D) Temperate and tropical

5. N:P:K requirement in legume is generally
(A) 3:1:1 (B) 3:1:0
(C) 1:2:2 (D) 4:2:1

6. Which of the following state has the largest geographical area
(A) U.P. (B) Bihar
(C) M.P. (D) Rajasthan

7. The highest production in terms of million tones per year in India is that of
(A) Pulses (B) Groundnut
(C) Potatoes (D) Sugarcane

8. Respiration in plant is essentially a process related to the following
(A) Evaporation (B) Transpiration
(C) Oxidation (D) None of these

9. Linkage between gene affects
(A) Vernalization (B) Fertilization
(C) Anaphase (D) Independent assortment

10. NPK are required in plant nutrition as
(A) Trace element (B) Microelement
(C) Micro nutrient (D) None essential

11. DNA contains following number of nitrogenous base
(A)One (B) Two
(C) Four (D) Ten

12. Animal and plant cell can be differentiated by
(A) Conductivity (B) Size
(C) Presence or absence of cell wall (D) Shape

13. In temperate countries, sugar is generally obtained from which of the following
crops
(A)Maple (B) sugar beet

(C) Wheat (D) Sugarcane

14. The idea of particulate nature of inheritance was given by
(A) Darwin (B) Mendel
(C) Jones (D) Bateson

15. Cultivated rice Oryza sativa has the following number of cromosomes
(A) 2n =32 (B) 2n =20
(C) 2n =24 (D) 2n =18

16. In the presence of sunlight CO2 and H2O (with the help of chlorophyll) and
converted in to carbohydrate, this is known as
(A) Photosynthesis (B) Respiration
(C) Metabolism (D) Solar radiation

17. Soil productivity takes in to account the following
(A) Soil structure (B) Soil moisture
(C) Soil fertility (D) Soil fertility and productivity

18. If chromosome compliment of two diploid species is combined in one, the result
species would be
(A) Amphidiploid (B) Haploid
(C) Monogenic (D) Polygenic

19. Alternate form of gene at the same locus are referred to as
(A) Allele (B) Plastid
(C) Dominant (D) Chromosome

20. Sequence of growing crops in a piece of land is known as
(A) Crop insurance (B) crop rotation
(C) Crop production (D) Crop management