Question 51. The vaccine-preventable diseases associated with children are ________
Answer: Diptheria, whopping cough, tetanus, ringworm, trachoma
Question 52. The largest flower in the world is ________
Answer: Rafflessia
Question 53. Which gland in the human body is popularly called ‘Adam’s Apple’?
Answer: Thyroid
Question 54. What do you mean by biopsy?
Answer: Examination of tissue cut from living body
Question 55. ‘Amnesia’ is related to the loss of ________
Answer: Memory
Question 56. Silver fish is ________
Answer: An insect
Question 57. Identical twins are born when ________
Answer: One sperm fertilizes the ovum and zygote divided into two separate cells eveloping independently
Question 58. “AIDS” affects ________
Answer: Immunity system of human body
Question 59. Fruits infested with larvae of pests, imported from abroad are more dangerous in India than in the country of their origin since ________
Answer: Natural predators who prey on them are not available in India.
Question 60. Which factor is most responsible for the damage of stored foodgrains?
Answer: Environmental humidity
Question 61. Bull semen for the purpose of artificial insemination is stored in ________
Answer: Liquid nitrogen
Question 62. Seeds can be best preserved in ________
Answer: Cool and dry condition
Question 63. Tobacco-mosaic virus in tobacco plant has ________
Answer: Single-straned RNA
Question 64. Which is normal human (male) chromosomal constitution?
Answer: 44 + xy
65. How can you explain the feeling of hunger?
Answer: Blood gets short of some nutrients
Question 66. Rheumatic heart patients are specially advised against taking ________
Answer: Salt
Question 67. If T.B. bacteria attack the bone of a patient and damage the bone marrow, what would be the main problem in the patient’s bio-system?
Answer: Production of RBC
Question 68. The chief function of a gene is to ________
Answer: Determine the character of a cell
Question 69. If a person’s diet consists of rice, dal and curds only, he is likely to suffer from a deficiency of ________
Answer: Vitamins
Question 70. The disease, in which bronchial tubes become narrow due to spasms of the bronchial muscles and swelling of the nucous membrane, is called ________
Answer: Asthma
Question 71. The hormone that regulates blood pressure is ________ and it is secreted by ________
Answer: Adrenaline, adrenaline glands
Question 72. The chemical digestion of food takes place in ______
Answer: Mouth, stomach and small intestine
Question 73. In case of road accidents, your first step for the injured person should be to ________
Answer: Treat asphyxia
Question 74. Which organ in man keeps food in reserve?
Answer: Muscle
75. Which gland acts both as endocrine and exocrine gland?
Answer: Pancreas
Question 76. Among snakes, the one that is killed for its beautiful skin and has now been declared an endangered species, is ________
Answer: Python
Question 77. The best position in which we can put a person when he has lost consciousness is ________
Answer: To put him in a semiprone position, half on his side and half on his front
Question 78. A vegetarian may get the required phosphorus for his body from ________
Answer: Milk
Question 79. A colour-blind person commonly has difficulty in seeing ________
Answer: Red, green and paletints
Question 80. In the human body, fats are stored in ________
Answer: Adipose tissue
Question 81. Breathing through the nose is better because ________
Answer: Nasal pass age is longer and the air gets warmed up till it reaches the lungs
Question 82. Hormones are useful for ________
Answer: Metabolic functions
Question 83. Hydrophobia may affect a perosn suffering from _____
Answer: Dog bite
Question 84. Prokaryotes are ________
Answer: Organisms lacking a definite nucleus
Question 85. Honey that has a high concentration of sugar does not decay because ________
Answer: Bacteria cannot survive in an active state in a solution of high osmotic strength as water is drawn out
Question 86. On chemical analysis, a bottle-cork is found to contain primarily ________
Answer: Carbohydrates
Question 87. Granum is a component of ________
Answer: Chloroplasts
Question 88. “Flame of the forest” refers to ________
Answer: A forest full of trees which burst with red flowers during autumn
Question 89. Lucerne is a ________
Answer: Foliage crop
Question 90. The phlegm that accumulates in the bronchi is cleared during coughing by ________
Answer: Pseudastratified columnar ciliated epithelium
Question 91. Milk teeth in a child of 3-4 years od not include ______
Answer: Molars
Question 92. If you are standing on your head, the apple being chewed in the mouth ________
Answer: Can be swallowed by squeezing it through the oesophagus
Question 93. Some states in India have imposed a ban on the consumption of kesari dal (Lathyrus sativus) because it causes gradual loss of ________
Answer: Movem ent of lower limbs
Question 94. The Central Rice Research Institute of India is located at ________
Answer: Cuttack
Question 95. “I flatter myself having discovered the method that nature employs to purify air. It is vegetation.” Who is credited with this statement and discovery?
Answer: Joseph Priestley
Question 96. When fishes are kept in an aquarium containing water but no aquatic plants, they frequently come to the surface and float in a semivertical position for wnat of ________
Answer: Dissolved oxygen
Question 97. Puncture of the thoracic wall but not of the lung itself will cause ________
Answer: Collapse of lung
Question 98. Insufficient dietary iodine causes a/an ________
Answer: Enlarged thyroid
Question 99. Patients who excrete large quantities of sodium in the urine have ________
Answer: Deseased adrunal cortex
Question 100. The movement of eggs from the ovaries to the uterus proceeds through the ________
Answer: Fallopian tube
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