

MCQOPTIONS
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 | |