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This section includes 58 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Basic GK knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Maximum Protein is found |
| A. | gram |
| B. | Peas |
| C. | Soybean |
| D. | Wheat |
| Answer» D. Wheat | |
| 2. |
Ornithology is the study of? |
| A. | Birds |
| B. | fly |
| C. | Parushkavachi |
| D. | insect |
| Answer» B. fly | |
| 3. |
Toxicology is the study of |
| A. | Human behavior |
| B. | Poison |
| C. | soil erosion |
| D. | rock |
| Answer» C. soil erosion | |
| 4. |
Nephrology is associated with? |
| A. | Liver |
| B. | Lung |
| C. | kidney |
| D. | duodenum |
| Answer» D. duodenum | |
| 5. |
Oncology is associated with the treatment of which disease? |
| A. | Osteoporosis |
| B. | Diabetes |
| C. | renal failure |
| D. | Cancer |
| Answer» E. | |
| 6. |
Which of the following branch of medical science is related to the treatment and study of liver? |
| A. | Helology |
| B. | Heptology |
| C. | Heterology |
| D. | Geriatrics |
| Answer» C. Heterology | |
| 7. |
Science in which animal/human anatomy is learned by dissection? |
| A. | Hematology |
| B. | Osteology |
| C. | Anatomy |
| D. | Heptology |
| Answer» D. Heptology | |
| 8. |
'Pediatrics' is related to the study of which of the following? |
| A. | bone disease |
| B. | heart disease |
| C. | Pediatrics |
| D. | Eye diseases |
| Answer» D. Eye diseases | |
| 9. |
Which of the following is the study of man? |
| A. | Archaeology |
| B. | Archeology |
| C. | Anthropology |
| D. | Andrology |
| Answer» D. Andrology | |
| 10. |
The written document which an anthropologist prepares from research depicting culture? |
| A. | Ethnography |
| B. | Cultural Relativism |
| C. | Ethnocentrism |
| D. | Ethnobotany |
| Answer» B. Cultural Relativism | |
| 11. |
Application of genetic laws for the betterment of mankind is related to |
| A. | Euphenix |
| B. | eugenics |
| C. | Life Sciences |
| D. | All these |
| Answer» C. Life Sciences | |
| 12. |
Which of the following is that branch of physiology and medicine, which deals with specific diseases and conditions of men? |
| A. | Andrology |
| B. | Estacology |
| C. | Bioecology |
| D. | Desmology |
| Answer» B. Estacology | |
| 13. |
Which instrument is used to examine the internal organs of the body? |
| A. | Cardiogram |
| B. | Endoscope |
| C. | Stereoscope |
| D. | Microscope |
| Answer» C. Stereoscope | |
| 14. |
Rhinoscope is an instrument for checking? |
| A. | nose |
| B. | brain |
| C. | ear |
| D. | eye |
| Answer» D. eye | |
| 15. |
Which one is used by doctors in examining patients? |
| A. | Hygroscope |
| B. | Spectroscope |
| C. | Stethoscope |
| D. | stroboscope |
| Answer» D. stroboscope | |
| 16. |
In which year was the first human heart transplant done? |
| A. | 1967 |
| B. | 1959 |
| C. | 1972 |
| D. | 1955 |
| Answer» B. 1959 | |
| 17. |
Whose discovered the first antibiotic? |
| A. | W. Fleming |
| B. | C. Waxman |
| C. | Louis Pasteur |
| D. | A. Fleming |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
Which of the following animals can live for the longest period without drinking water? |
| A. | Giraffe |
| B. | Kangaroo Rat |
| C. | Kangaroo |
| D. | Camel |
| Answer» C. Kangaroo | |
| 19. |
Due to whose discovery Waxman was given the Nobel Prize? |
| A. | Chloromycetin |
| B. | Streptomycin |
| C. | Neomycin |
| D. | penicillin |
| Answer» C. Neomycin | |
| 20. |
The following is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria? |
| A. | Salmonella |
| B. | E.coli |
| C. | Rhizobium |
| D. | Pseudomonas |
| Answer» D. Pseudomonas | |
| 21. |
The nitrogen-fixing bacteria found in the nodules present in the roots of leguminous plants are? |
| A. | mortal |
| B. | symbiotic |
| C. | protophagy |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. protophagy | |
| 22. |
By genetic manipulation, which bacterial strain of bacteria grown from natural isolates can be used to treat spilled oil in the ocean? |
| A. | Clostridium |
| B. | Agrobacterium |
| C. | Nitrosomonas |
| D. | Pseudomonas |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
Does refrigeration help in food preservation? |
| A. | killing bacteria |
| B. | reducing the rate of biochemical reactions |
| C. | destroying enzyme action |
| D. | by covering the food item with a layer of ice |
| Answer» C. destroying enzyme action | |
| 24. |
What is the bacterial decomposition of organic matter in anaerobic conditions called? |
| A. | Fertilization |
| B. | Composting |
| C. | Fermentation |
| D. | contamination |
| Answer» D. contamination | |
| 25. |
Who is the founder of Homeopathy? |
| A. | Laneck |
| B. | Domac |
| C. | Waxman |
| D. | Heinemann |
| Answer» E. | |
| 26. |
Who presented the 'Like Cures Like' homeopathic principle? |
| A. | Hippocrates |
| B. | Samuel Heinemann |
| C. | Samuel Cockburn |
| D. | Georges Vitoulcus |
| Answer» C. Samuel Cockburn | |
| 27. |
Which one of the following is not a feature of a virus? |
| A. | Presence of DNA or RNA |
| B. | reproduction within the host cell |
| C. | completely parasitic in nature |
| D. | presence of cell wall |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
Which type of cell division is used to repair the injury in the body? |
| A. | mitosis only |
| B. | meiosis only |
| C. | both mitosis and meiosis |
| D. | neither mitosis nor meiosis |
| Answer» B. meiosis only | |
| 29. |
What is the reason for the curdling of milk? |
| A. | Mycobacterium |
| B. | Staphylococcus |
| C. | Lactobacillus |
| D. | Yeast |
| Answer» D. Yeast | |
| 30. |
Plants that grow in highly salty soil are called? |
| A. | Xerophyta |
| B. | Mesophyta |
| C. | Halophyta |
| D. | Thallophyta |
| Answer» D. Thallophyta | |
| 31. |
With which of the following are the terms hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia related? |
| A. | body fat |
| B. | Blood sugar |
| C. | cancer |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. cancer | |
| 32. |
In which branch do you study flowering plants? |
| A. | Cryptogames |
| B. | Phanerogames |
| C. | Bryophytes |
| D. | Pteridophytes |
| Answer» C. Bryophytes | |
| 33. |
Microbe can be seen by? |
| A. | with an empty eye |
| B. | Compound microscope |
| C. | by hand lens |
| D. | electron microscope |
| Answer» C. by hand lens | |
| 34. |
Desert plants have long roots because? |
| A. | High soil temperature encourages roots to elongate |
| B. | Roots are long in search of water |
| C. | There is no water in the land. Therefore, it hardens and puts pressure on the roots, due to which it becomes elongated. |
| D. | Roots grow in the opposite direction to the heat of the sun |
| Answer» C. There is no water in the land. Therefore, it hardens and puts pressure on the roots, due to which it becomes elongated. | |
| 35. |
Which of the following plants is not a collection organ of a stem? |
| A. | Sugarcane |
| B. | Ginger |
| C. | Potato |
| D. | Sweet potato |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
Tears come when peeling onions, because onions expel? |
| A. | Sulfonic acid |
| B. | Sulfenic acid |
| C. | amino acids |
| D. | Carbolic acid |
| Answer» C. amino acids | |
| 37. |
Artificial lighting? |
| A. | can destroy foliage |
| B. | may cause photosynthesis |
| C. | can synthesize foliar |
| D. | cannot be the cause of photosynthesis |
| Answer» C. can synthesize foliar | |
| 38. |
Hormones are different from Vickers because? |
| A. | Hormones are found only in animals |
| B. | Hormones are found only in plants |
| C. | Hormones are not used in metabolic activities |
| D. | Hormones are fully used in metabolic activities |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
Light blue blood in arthropod animals can be due to |
| A. | Hemocyanin |
| B. | hemoglobin |
| C. | hemin |
| D. | Porphyrins |
| Answer» B. hemoglobin | |
| 40. |
To what depth are photosynthetic marine plants found? |
| A. | 20-30 m |
| B. | 180-200 m |
| C. | 980-1000 m |
| D. | 1800-2000 m |
| Answer» B. 180-200 m | |
| 41. |
How do most insects respire? |
| A. | skin |
| B. | from cleome |
| C. | from the lungs |
| D. | from the nervous system |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
Which is the correct ascending hierarchy of groups of taxonomy in taxonomy? |
| A. | Species-Order-Genus-Family |
| B. | Species-Genus-Family-Order |
| C. | Family-Genus-Species-Order |
| D. | Genus-Family-Species-Order |
| Answer» C. Family-Genus-Species-Order | |
| 43. |
The presence of funnel cells is a characteristic feature of |
| A. | Roundworms |
| B. | SpongeBob |
| C. | earthworms |
| D. | tongue worm |
| Answer» C. earthworms | |
| 44. |
Dolphins of Ganges exist? |
| A. | Reptile |
| B. | breast |
| C. | Invertebrates |
| D. | fish |
| Answer» C. Invertebrates | |
| 45. |
Which of these animals have external and internal skeleton? |
| A. | Cockroach |
| B. | Earthworm |
| C. | Frogs |
| D. | Snake |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
Heart is a muscle? |
| A. | unmarked and optional |
| B. | Lined and optional |
| C. | having fewer mitochondria |
| D. | stimulated or exacerbated and involuntary by a spontaneously produced stimulus |
| Answer» E. | |
| 47. |
A disease that can be caused by the deficiency of nicotinic acid for a long time is? |
| A. | Beri-Beri |
| B. | Pellagra |
| C. | Scurvy |
| D. | anemia |
| Answer» C. Scurvy | |
| 48. |
Tissues are made in the body? |
| A. | from fat |
| B. | Carbohydrates |
| C. | protein |
| D. | Vitamin |
| Answer» D. Vitamin | |
| 49. |
What causes the dough to rise on the addition of yeast? |
| A. | increase in the number of yeast cells |
| B. | release of carbon dioxide gas |
| C. | rise in temperature |
| D. | increase in the quantity of matter |
| Answer» C. rise in temperature | |
| 50. |
The yeast used in making bread is? |
| A. | acts as a catalyst for fermentation |
| B. | does not help in the process of fermentation |
| C. | acts as a protector |
| D. | makes it tastier |
| Answer» B. does not help in the process of fermentation | |