UKPCS Science_Life Sciences

Indian Poultry Sector Poultry is one of the fastest growing segments of the agricultural sector in India today. While the production of agricultural crops has been rising at a rate of 1.5 to 2 percent per annum, that of eggs and broilers has been rising at a rate of 8 to 10 percent per annum. […]

Pig Farming in India Commercial pig farming in India for meat production is one of the best and profitable business ideas for the Indian people. There are several highly meat producing pig breeds available around the globe. Some of those are very suitable for commercial meat production according to the weather and climate of India

APICULTURE What is apiculture? Apiculture – Collection of honey from the forests has been in existence for a long time. Honey bees convert nectar of flowers into honey and store them in the combs of the hive and the growing market potential for honey and its products has resulted in bee keeping emerging as a

 Vermiculture The term vermiculture mainly refers to the scientific process of cultivating worm or artificial rearing of worms to decompose organic food wastes into a nutrient-rich material. The output of vermiculture is called vermicompost and is formed by the process in which earthworms consume the farmyard manure and roughages in addition to the wastes from farms and thereby

Sericulture Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, Bombyx mori (the caterpillar of the domesticated silk moth) is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm. Silk was believed to have first produced in China as early as the Neolithic period, but

DNA: Deoxyribonucleic acid What is DNA? DNA: Deoxyribonucleic acid is a molecule which carries the genetic instructions or the hereditary material which is used in the growth and development of all known living organisms including viruses.

Oracle IAS, the best coaching institute for UPSC/IAS/PCS preparation in Dehradun brings to you UKPCS Science Life Sciences (paper 6) – Chromosomes CHROMOSOMES These are thread like structure found in the nucleus with  a part or all the genitic material of an organism. They are normally visible under a light microscope only when it is undergoing the METAPHSE

Oracle IAS, the best coaching institute for UPSC/IAS/PCS preparation in Dehradun brings to you UKPCS Science Life Sciences (paper 6)- Blood type. Blood type A blood type (also called a blood group) is a classification of blood based on the presence and absence of antigens and also based on the presence or absence of inheritedantigenic substances on the

Oracle IAS, the best coaching institute for UPSC/IAS/PCS preparation in Dehradun brings to you UKPCS Science Life Sciences (paper 6) BLOOD  Blood is a body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.