Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Strategies for enhancement in Food production

Question:

Assertion: The behaviour of honey bee to come out of the hive in large number is called swarming.
Reason: It relieves the crowding and provides a means of founding new colonies.

Options:

Both Assertion (A) and reason (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Both Assertion (A) and reason (R) are correct and but R is not the correct explanation of A.

Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is not correct.

Both Assertion (A) and Reason are false (F )

Correct Answer:

Both Assertion (A) and reason (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Explanation:

Swarming : The behaviour of the honey bee to come out of the hive in large number is called swarming. It takes place during the spring or early summer. It relieves the over crowding and provides a means of colony reproduction, i.e. founding of new colonies.