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In the question given below, there are five blanks. Choose the appropriate answers for the blank as per the question asked:

Among 20,000 bee species globally, honey bees ____(1)____the well-known taxa because of their apicultural use and ____(2)____pollinating agents. Ten extant species, the dwarf, the giant and the cavity-nesting honey bees including the imported European honey bee, Apis mellifera, are found in Asia. Four species each in India and Thailand, five species each ____(3)____China and Indonesia, are reported besides mellifera. Only recently, Apis indica (Fabriciuos,1798), the Plains Honey Bee of south India, and breviligula, the Giant Philippine Honey Bee, are recognized as valid species. Many works had been done on the honey bees nevertheless, there is no report on the indigenous honey bee species of Bhutan ____(4)____ Apis laboriosa, dorsata and florae are regarded as native to Bhutan without ____(5)____ authentic study. This information reports five indigenous species and mellifera, which is imported from India in 1986.

What will come in blank 1?

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are
2
is
3
nor
4
neither

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