The chemical used in National Malaria Eradication Programme is :
2,4- D
BHC
DDT
Pyrethroid
C.
DDT
DDT or Dichloro Diphenyl trichloroethane was synthesized by a German student and was later rediscovered by Dr. Paul Muller. It was used in National Malaria Eradication Programme to kill malaria mosquitoe Anopheles.
In the life scale of mosquito, comma shaped stage is:
larval stage
pupal stage
imago stage
none of these
Which of the following is a mismatch?
Amphetamine - a stimulant
Morphine - an opiate narcotic
LSD - a hallucinogen
Cocaine - a sedative/ tranquillizer
The AIDS virus spreads through
killer 'T' cells
helper 'T' cells
suppressor 'T' cells
carrier 'T' cells
Which of the following. is generally used in chronic diarrhoea, dysentery, bleeding, piles, leucorrhoea etc?
Quinine
Ephidrine
Chir
Catha
Cancer causing genes (oncogenes) were discovered by
Watson and Crick
Beadle and Tatum
Bishop and Varamus
Temin and Baltimore
The causative agent of filaria is
Wuchereria bancrofti
Leishmania donovani
Plasmodium vivax
Trypanosoma gambiens
Male Anopheles does not transmit malarial parasite because
it catches fever
it is too small to carry parasite
the parasite is killed in its stomach
it does not drink blood
