Multiple Choice Questions

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Cells obtained from cancerous tumours are known as

  • Hybridomas

  • Myelomas

  • Lymphocytes

  • Monoclonal cells


B.

Myelomas

Myeloma is a type of cancer that develops from plasma cells occurring in the bone marrow. It may develop, wherever the plasma cells occur.


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Zero growth means

  • Natality balance mortality

  • Natality is more than mortality

  • Natality is less than mortality

  • Natality is zero


Agar-Agar is produced by

  • Fungi

  • Alage

  • Bacteria

  • Blue-green algae


Which one of the following is not correctly matched?

  •  Diphtheria – Corynebacerium

  • Elephantiasis – Wuchereria

  • Plague – Paramyxo

  • Lockjaw – Clostridium


Addiction to alcohol causes

  • Cirrhosis

  • Epilepsy

  • Neurosis

  • Psychosis


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Match the following Columns.

Column I (Disease) Column II (Related Hormone)
A. Cretinism 1. Glucocorticoid
B. Cushing's Syndrome 2. Testosterone
C. Diabetes Insipidus 3. Thyroid
D. Eunuchoidism 4. ADH

  • A – 3; B – 4; C – 1; D – 2

  • A – 2; B – 3; C – 4; D – 1

  • A – 3; B – 4; C – 2; D – 1

  • A – 3; B – 1; C – 4; D – 2


‘Treponema pallidum’ pathogen is a cause of

  • Leprosy

  • Plague

  • Syphilis

  • Pertussis


Who received Nobel Prize in 2008 for the discovery of HIV?

  • Harald Zur Hausen

  • Luc Montagnier

  • Jack Szostak

  • Carol Greider


A transgenic food crop, which may help in solving the problem of nightblindness in developing countries is

  • Flavr savr tomatoes

  • Starlink maize

  • Bt soyabean

  • Golden rice


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AIDS virus contains

  • RNA with protein

  • DNA with protein

  • DNA without protein

  • bNA only


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