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This section includes 76 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your General Knowledge knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
1. |
Nymph is the name of young one of |
A. | butterfly |
B. | beetle |
C. | housefly |
D. | cockroach |
Answer» E. | |
2. |
One day you wake with a sore throat and a runny nose. Your doctor takes a swab from your throat, sends it to a lab, and telephones you the next day to say that antibiotic will not help you get better. Which of the following is the most likely reason for the doctor's statement? |
A. | Having waited a day, it is too late to take an antibiotic |
B. | You need an antiseptic, not an antibiotic |
C. | You need to be vaccinated instead of taking an antibiotic |
D. | You are infected by a virus |
Answer» E. | |
3. |
Pulses are a good source of |
A. | carbohydrates |
B. | fats |
C. | proteins |
D. | vitamins |
Answer» D. vitamins | |
4. |
Mycobacterium leprae causes leprosy, Corynebacterium diphtheria causes diphtheria and Vibrio comma causes |
A. | tetanus |
B. | influenza |
C. | cholera |
D. | typhoid |
Answer» D. typhoid | |
5. |
One of the following is most suitable for study of mutations |
A. | Haploids |
B. | Diploids |
C. | Tetraploids |
D. | Polyploid |
Answer» B. Diploids | |
6. |
Oxygen in our blood is transported by a protein named |
A. | haemoglobin |
B. | keratin |
C. | collagen |
D. | myoglobin |
Answer» B. keratin | |
7. |
Most abundant tissues of our body are |
A. | muscular |
B. | connective |
C. | epithelial |
D. | nervous |
Answer» C. epithelial | |
8. |
Rain water helps to increase the ____ to some extent. |
A. | phosphorous contents |
B. | nitrogen contents |
C. | calcium contents |
D. | potash contents |
Answer» D. potash contents | |
9. |
Mumps is a disease caused by |
A. | fungus |
B. | bacterium |
C. | virus |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
10. |
Number of chromosomes in Down's syndrome is |
A. | 46 |
B. | 47 |
C. | 48 |
D. | 49 |
Answer» C. 48 | |
11. |
Most common disease of poultry in India is |
A. | fowl pox |
B. | tick fever |
C. | ranikhet |
D. | coryza |
Answer» D. coryza | |
12. |
Radioactivity is a phenomenon of the spontaneous emission of |
A. | protons (alpha particles) |
B. | electrons (beta particles) |
C. | gamma rays (short wave electromagnetic waves) |
D. | All of the above |
Answer» E. | |
13. |
Our major foods, fibres, spices, fruits and beverage crops are |
A. | flowering plants |
B. | gymnosperms plants |
C. | pteridophytes |
D. | bryophytes |
Answer» B. gymnosperms plants | |
14. |
Movements due to light are shown by |
A. | flowering plants |
B. | lower plants |
C. | all land plants |
D. | all the plants |
Answer» B. lower plants | |
15. |
Outer covering of virus made up of protein is |
A. | capsid |
B. | coat |
C. | virion |
D. | viriod |
Answer» B. coat | |
16. |
Photosynthesis is a process |
A. | reductive and exergonic |
B. | reductive and catabolic |
C. | reductive, endergonic and catabolic |
D. | reductive, endergonic and anabolic |
Answer» E. | |
17. |
On which of the following plants did Gregor Mendal perform his classical experiment? |
A. | Gram |
B. | Maize |
C. | Pea |
D. | Wheat |
Answer» D. Wheat | |
18. |
Oxyreductases, transferases, hydrolases, lyases, isomerases and ligases are all classes of |
A. | hormones |
B. | enzymes |
C. | proteins |
D. | vitamins |
Answer» C. proteins | |
19. |
Plants that grow under average temperature and moisture are called |
A. | halophytes |
B. | hydrophytes |
C. | mesophytes |
D. | xerophytes |
Answer» D. xerophytes | |
20. |
Plants are killed in winter by frost |
A. | because of desiccation and mechanical damage to the tissues |
B. | because no photosynthesis takes place at such low temperature |
C. | because respiration ceases at such low temperature |
D. | because there is no transpiration |
Answer» B. because no photosynthesis takes place at such low temperature | |
21. |
Pigmentation of skin is due to |
A. | lymphocytes |
B. | monocytes |
C. | leucocytes |
D. | melanocytes |
Answer» E. | |
22. |
Norepinephrine increases |
A. | respiration |
B. | urine production |
C. | saliva production |
D. | blood pressure |
Answer» E. | |
23. |
Radish is a |
A. | bulb |
B. | conn |
C. | modified root |
D. | tuber |
Answer» D. tuber | |
24. |
Monotremes are unique mammals because they |
A. | posses hair |
B. | give birth to live young |
C. | secret milk in a pouch |
D. | lay eggs |
Answer» E. | |
25. |
Poison glands of snakes are homologous to |
A. | electric organs of fishes |
B. | stings of rays |
C. | sebaceous glands of mammals |
D. | salivary glands of vertebrates |
Answer» E. | |
26. |
Monocot root differs from dicot root in having |
A. | open vascular bundles |
B. | scattered vascular bundles |
C. | well developed pith |
D. | radially arranged vascular bundles |
Answer» D. radially arranged vascular bundles | |
27. |
Osmosis is the flow of solution from higher concentration to a solution of lower concentration through a semi permeable membrane. What is incorrect in this statement? |
A. | Exact concentration of solution is not given |
B. | Character of semi permeable membrane is not given |
C. | The flow of solution is not possible through semi permeable membrane |
D. | All are incorrect |
Answer» D. All are incorrect | |
28. |
Radical vascular bundles are those in which |
A. | xylem is surrounded by phloem |
B. | phloem is surrounded by xylem |
C. | xylem and phloem occur on the same radius |
D. | xylem and phloem occur on the different radii |
Answer» E. | |
29. |
Normal adult human male has |
A. | 10 gram of haemoglobin/100 gram of blood |
B. | 14 gram of haemoglobin/100 gram of blood |
C. | 18 gram of haemoglobin/100 gram of blood |
D. | 24 gram of haemoglobin/100 gram of blood |
Answer» C. 18 gram of haemoglobin/100 gram of blood | |
30. |
Plants growing on sand are called as |
A. | chasmophytes |
B. | oxylophytes |
C. | lithophytes |
D. | psammophytes |
Answer» E. | |
31. |
Our skin, when exposed to excess sunlight, becomes dark. This is because our skin pigments called |
A. | flavoxanthin |
B. | melanin |
C. | carotene |
D. | Xanthophyll |
Answer» C. carotene | |
32. |
Ramapithecus and Cro-Magnon man are considered |
A. | ancestors of modern man |
B. | ancestors of monkey |
C. | ancestors of lion |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» B. ancestors of monkey | |
33. |
Plants wilt due to excess of |
A. | transpiration |
B. | photosynthesis |
C. | absorption |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. photosynthesis | |
34. |
Of the following taxonomic categories which is the most inclusive (i.e. is the highest in hierarchy)? |
A. | Order |
B. | Subspecies |
C. | Class |
D. | Genus |
Answer» D. Genus | |
35. |
out of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates present in a cell membrane, what is true? |
A. | Lipids are maximum |
B. | Carbohydrates are minimum |
C. | Carbohydrates are maximum |
D. | All three are in equal proportion |
Answer» C. Carbohydrates are maximum | |
36. |
Potato is a modified form (outgrowth) of |
A. | root |
B. | stem |
C. | fruit |
D. | leaf |
Answer» C. fruit | |
37. |
Photosynthesis generally takes place in which parts of the plant? |
A. | Leaf and other chloroplast bearing parts |
B. | stem and leaf |
C. | Roots and chloroplast bearing parts |
D. | Bark and leaf |
Answer» B. stem and leaf | |
38. |
Most fish do not sink in water because of the presence of
|
A. | I and II are correct |
B. | II and III are correct |
C. | III and IV are correct |
D. | I, II, III and IV are correct |
Answer» B. II and III are correct | |
39. |
Plants synthesis protein from |
A. | starch |
B. | sugar |
C. | amino acids |
D. | fatty acids |
Answer» D. fatty acids | |
40. |
Plants absorb dissolved nitrates from soil and convert them into |
A. | free nitrogen |
B. | urea |
C. | ammonia |
D. | proteins |
Answer» B. urea | |
41. |
Out of 900 reported species of living gymnosperms, conifers are represented by about 500 species, About 2,50,000 species of angiosperms (flowering plants) have also been reported in the world. The vast and dominant woodlands in Europe, Asia, North America and mountains such as Himalayas are wooded with |
A. | all gymnosperms, except conifers |
B. | only angiosperms |
C. | only conifers |
D. | angiosperms and all gymnosperms except conifers |
Answer» D. angiosperms and all gymnosperms except conifers | |
42. |
One of the following is not a function of bones. |
A. | Place for muscle attachment |
B. | Protection of vital organs |
C. | Secretion of hormones for calcium regulation in blood and bones |
D. | Production of blood corpuscles |
Answer» D. Production of blood corpuscles | |
43. |
O2 released in the process of photosynthesis comes from |
A. | CO |
B. | <sub>2</sub> |
C. | water |
D. | sugar |
E. | pyruvic acid |
Answer» C. water | |
44. |
Placenta is the structure formed |
A. | by the union of foetal and uterine tissue |
B. | by foetus only |
C. | by fusion of germ layers |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. by foetus only | |
45. |
Neurospora is used as genetic material because |
A. | it has short life cycle of 10 days |
B. | the product of single meiosis can be easily analysed |
C. | meiotic products are linearly arranged in the form of ordered tetrads |
D. | is a diploid fungus |
Answer» B. the product of single meiosis can be easily analysed | |
46. |
Photosynthesis takes place faster in |
A. | yellow light |
B. | white light |
C. | red light |
D. | darkness |
Answer» C. red light | |
47. |
Nucleus, the genetic material containing rounded body in each cell, was first discovered in 1831 by |
A. | Robert Hooke |
B. | Robert Brown |
C. | Rudolf Virchow |
D. | Theodore Schwann |
Answer» C. Rudolf Virchow | |
48. |
Plants hormone that induces cell division is |
A. | auxins |
B. | gibberellins |
C. | kinins |
D. | domins |
Answer» D. domins | |
49. |
Primary phloem develops from |
A. | lateral meristem |
B. | protoderm |
C. | extrastelar cambium |
D. | provascular tissue |
Answer» E. | |
50. |
Plants absorb most part of water needed by them through their |
A. | embryonic zone |
B. | growing point |
C. | root hairs |
D. | zone of elongation |
Answer» D. zone of elongation | |