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Agriculture · Q116

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 116

Q116

Corpora codiaca secretes the following in insect

A.
Hormone
Answer
B.
Pheremone
C.
Apheremone
D.
Atropine

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Corpora codiaca secretes the Hormone in insect.
The neurosecretory cells and the corpus cardiacum, a transformed ganglion closely associated with the heart, produce a peptide, called the prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH), which stimulates the prothoracic gland to produce ecdysone, a sterol hormone.
CC is the major neurohemal organ in insects and releases a large number of neuropeptides.