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				This section includes 94 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Cell Biology knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. | In case of acquired immune system, a secondary immune response is generated by the ______________ | 
| A. | memory B-cells | 
| B. | germ cells | 
| C. | lymphoid tissues | 
| D. | antigens | 
| Answer» B. germ cells | |
| 2. | T-cells secrete antibodies for eradicating the infected cells. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 3. | Cytotoxic T cells are _____________ | 
| A. | CD2⁺ | 
| B. | CD4⁺ | 
| C. | CD6⁺ | 
| D. | CD8⁺ | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. | Humoral immunity is mediated by ______________ | 
| A. | mast cells | 
| B. | neutrophils | 
| C. | lymphocytes | 
| D. | leukocytes | 
| Answer» D. leukocytes | |
| 5. | Patients suffering from which of the following disease contain large quantities of a single type of antibodies? | 
| A. | glioblastoma | 
| B. | prostate cancer | 
| C. | breast cancer | 
| D. | multiple myeloma | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 6. | After entering the target cells, the granzymes activate the ______________________ | 
| A. | antibodies | 
| B. | chemokines | 
| C. | perforins | 
| D. | caspases | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. | B-cells arise from ______________________ | 
| A. | progenitor cells | 
| B. | antigens | 
| C. | antibodies | 
| D. | natural killer cells | 
| Answer» B. antigens | |
| 8. | The heavy and light chains of the antibodies are linked to one another by ____________________ | 
| A. | covalent bonds | 
| B. | disulfide bonds | 
| C. | ionic bonds | 
| D. | hydrogen bonds | 
| Answer» C. ionic bonds | |
| 9. | Each T-cell has a single species of T-cell receptor. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» B. False | |
| 10. | Which antibody is produced at high levels in response to parasitic functions? | 
| A. | IgA | 
| B. | IgE | 
| C. | IgG | 
| D. | IgD | 
| Answer» C. IgG | |
| 11. | Who proposed the clonal selection theory? | 
| A. | James Watson | 
| B. | Niels Jerne | 
| C. | Francis Crick | 
| D. | Frank MacFarlane Burnet | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 12. | In all the immunoglobulins, there are _____ type(s) of light chains and ______ type(s) of heavy chain. | 
| A. | 2, 1 | 
| B. | 2, 2 | 
| C. | 1, 2 | 
| D. | 1, 1 | 
| Answer» C. 1, 2 | |
| 13. | For the body to develop immunologic tolerance, production of ____________________ must be prevented. | 
| A. | antibodies | 
| B. | antigens | 
| C. | autoantibodies | 
| D. | lymphocytes | 
| Answer» D. lymphocytes | |
| 14. | Adoptive immunotherapy involves the person’s own immune system for treatment against cancer. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» B. False | |
| 15. | The drug Vectibix is directed against _____________________ | 
| A. | Her2 receptor | 
| B. | Her3 receptor | 
| C. | EGF receptor | 
| D. | EGF | 
| Answer» D. EGF | |
| 16. | Spontaneous remissions were studied by which of the following scientists? | 
| A. | Barbara McClintock | 
| B. | William Coley | 
| C. | Fredrick Sanger | 
| D. | James Watson | 
| Answer» C. Fredrick Sanger | |
| 17. | Conventional therapies like chemosurgery kill a large number of healthy cells in addition to cancer cells. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» B. False | |
| 18. | p53 is capable of binding to which family of proteins? | 
| A. | Bcl-1 | 
| B. | Bcl-2 | 
| C. | Bcl-3 | 
| D. | Bcl-4 | 
| Answer» C. Bcl-3 | |
| 19. | p53 is a _________ | 
| A. | translation factor | 
| B. | polymerase | 
| C. | endonuclease | 
| D. | transcription factor | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. | Which immune cells are generally used in the treatment of cancer using adoptive immunotherapy? | 
| A. | Mast cells | 
| B. | Dendritic cells | 
| C. | Neuronal cells | 
| D. | Malignant cells | 
| Answer» C. Neuronal cells | |
| 21. | Angiogenesis is the process of formation of __________________ | 
| A. | cancer cells | 
| B. | blood vessels | 
| C. | tissues | 
| D. | immune cells | 
| Answer» C. tissues | |
| 22. | Cancer cells promote angiogenesis by secreting ________________________ | 
| A. | antigens | 
| B. | antibodies | 
| C. | growth factors | 
| D. | necrosis factors | 
| Answer» D. necrosis factors | |
| 23. | Which of the following disease is caused by a chromosomal translocation? | 
| A. | Chronic myelogenous leukemia | 
| B. | Hodgkin’s B-cell lymphoma | 
| C. | Alzheimer’s disease | 
| D. | Parkinson’s disease | 
| Answer» B. Hodgkin’s B-cell lymphoma | |
| 24. | Certain agents may be converted to mutagenic compounds by the action of cellular enzymes. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» B. False | |
| 25. | Cyclooxygenase-2 synthesizes _____________________ | 
| A. | sucrose | 
| B. | prostaglandins | 
| C. | steroids | 
| D. | gametes | 
| Answer» C. steroids | |
| 26. | The immortality exhibited by the cancer cells is due to presence of _____________________ | 
| A. | telomerase | 
| B. | nuclease | 
| C. | kinase | 
| D. | protease | 
| Answer» B. nuclease | |
| 27. | When was the genetic basis of retinoblastoma first explained? | 
| A. | 1961 | 
| B. | 1971 | 
| C. | 1981 | 
| D. | 1991 | 
| Answer» C. 1981 | |
| 28. | The first tumor-suppressor gene to be studied is associated with ______________________ | 
| A. | myeloma | 
| B. | sarcoma | 
| C. | retinoblastoma | 
| D. | carcinoma | 
| Answer» D. carcinoma | |
| 29. | Oncogenes promote the growth of cancer cells. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» B. False | |
| 30. | Which of the following is a test for detecting precancerous cells? | 
| A. | MRI | 
| B. | CT Scan | 
| C. | Pap smear | 
| D. | Endoscopy | 
| Answer» D. Endoscopy | |
| 31. | The expression of telomerase on cancer cells can be considered an epigenetic change. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» B. False | |
| 32. | Cancer is monoclonal. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» B. False | |
| 33. | Perforins and granzymes are secreted by ______________________ | 
| A. | Cytotoxic T lymphocytes | 
| B. | Helper T lymphocytes | 
| C. | Regulatory T lymphocytes | 
| D. | B lymphocytes | 
| Answer» B. Helper T lymphocytes | |
| 34. | Binding of which of the following antibody’s heavy chain initiates the lysis of bound bacterial cells? | 
| A. | IgM | 
| B. | IgD | 
| C. | IgA | 
| D. | IgE | 
| Answer» B. IgD | |
| 35. | Chemokines act as ___________________ | 
| A. | buffers | 
| B. | receptors | 
| C. | chemoattractants | 
| D. | antibodies | 
| Answer» D. antibodies | |
| 36. | The oncogenes act __________________ | 
| A. | dominantly | 
| B. | recessively | 
| C. | occasionally | 
| D. | frequently | 
| Answer» B. recessively | |
| 37. | The phagocytes can recognize pathogens by means of _____________________ | 
| A. | necrosis factor | 
| B. | complement activation | 
| C. | pattern recognition receptors | 
| D. | adhesion molecules | 
| Answer» D. adhesion molecules | |
| 38. | Which of the following is a humanized antibody? | 
| A. | Doxorubicin | 
| B. | Sulforaphane | 
| C. | Vimentin | 
| D. | Herceptin | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. | IgG is the predominant antibody in the secretion of respiratory tract. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 40. | Which of the following is an essential requirement for the differentiation of regulatory T cells? | 
| A. | FOXP1 | 
| B. | FOXP2 | 
| C. | FOXP3 | 
| D. | FOXP4 | 
| Answer» D. FOXP4 | |
| 41. | The cancer cells are protected from ___________________ | 
| A. | transcription | 
| B. | mutation | 
| C. | apoptosis | 
| D. | contamination | 
| Answer» D. contamination | |
| 42. | Leukemias usually arise from _________ | 
| A. | epithelial cells | 
| B. | neurons | 
| C. | blood-forming tissues | 
| D. | epidermal cells | 
| Answer» D. epidermal cells | |
| 43. | The most common solid tumors – breast, colon etc. arise in _____________ cells. | 
| A. | epithelial | 
| B. | mesothelial | 
| C. | nerve cells | 
| D. | muscle cells | 
| Answer» B. mesothelial | |
| 44. | Plasma cells possess extensive smooth endoplasmic reticulum. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 45. | Innate immune responses are accompanied by inflammation. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» B. False | |
| 46. | Which type of interferons is associated with an antiviral innate response? | 
| A. | Type I | 
| B. | Type II | 
| C. | Type III | 
| D. | Type IV | 
| Answer» B. Type II | |
| 47. | Which type of immune cells are responsible for eradicating intracellular pathogens? | 
| A. | natural killer cells | 
| B. | mast cells | 
| C. | neurons | 
| D. | specific lymphocytes | 
| Answer» B. mast cells | |
| 48. | Which of the following is a stomach-dwelling bacterium? | 
| A. | Helicobacter pylori | 
| B. | Staphylococcus epidermis | 
| C. | Staphylococcus hominis | 
| D. | Pityrosporum | 
| Answer» B. Staphylococcus epidermis | |
| 49. | Which is the first antibody secreted by B cells following stimulation by an antigen? | 
| A. | IgG | 
| B. | IgM | 
| C. | IgE | 
| D. | IgD | 
| Answer» C. IgE | |
| 50. | Who discovered the vaccination against smallpox? | 
| A. | Louis Pasteur | 
| B. | Francis Crick | 
| C. | Barbara McClintock | 
| D. | Edward Jenner | 
| Answer» E. | |