{"id":1246,"date":"2024-02-17T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:51:12","slug":"q-wolbachia-method-is-sometimes-talked-about-with-reference-to-which-one-of-the-following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-wolbachia-method-is-sometimes-talked-about-with-reference-to-which-one-of-the-following","title":{"rendered":"Q. \u2018Wolbachia method\u2019 is sometimes talked about with reference to which one of the following?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Controlling the viral diseases spread by mosquitoes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Converting crop residues into packing materia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Producing biodegradable plastics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Producing biochar from. thennochemiceil conversion of biomass<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (a) Controlling the viral diseases spread by mosquitoes<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wolbachia-method\"><strong>Wolbachia Method<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The \u201cWolbachia method\u201d is a technique used to&nbsp;<strong>control the spread of viral diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wolbachia is a type of&nbsp;<strong>bacterium<\/strong>&nbsp;that can be introduced into mosquitoes&nbsp;<strong>to reduce their ability to transmit these diseases.<\/strong>&nbsp;When mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia mate with mosquitoes without Wolbachia, the resulting eggs do not hatch or produce offspring, thus reducing the population of disease-carrying mosquitoes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the Wolbachia method, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are introduced with the bacterium in the lab and then researchers release them into the wild. Now, the Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes breed with their wild counterparts which result in a growing percentage of the bacterium in those mosquitoes. This is known as the Population Replacement Strategy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wolbachia.png\" alt=\"Wolbachia\" class=\"wp-image-41640\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wolbachia-method.png\" alt=\"Wolbachia method\" class=\"wp-image-41641\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"What_is_dengue_disease?\"><strong>Dengue disease<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>According to World Health Organisation (WHO),&nbsp;<strong>dengue is a viral infection transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is a tropical and sub-tropical (climate) disease&nbsp;<strong>caused by the dengue virus (Genus Flavivirus) and prime vectors transmitting the disease are Aedes aegypti mosquitoes<\/strong>&nbsp;and, to a lesser extent, Ae. albopictus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The mosquito is also responsible for transmitting chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika infection.&nbsp;There is four dengue virus (DENV) serotypes that cause dengue (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3 and DEN-4). Simply put, serotypes means separate groups within a species of microorganisms having a similar characteristic.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (a) Controlling the viral diseases spread by mosquitoes Wolbachia Method Dengue disease<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[44],"years":[50],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-science-and-tech","years-50"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":44,"label":"Science and Tech"}],"years":[{"value":50,"label":"2023"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":44,"name":"Science and Tech","slug":"science-and-tech","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}