Multiple Choice Questions

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

  • is caused by a variant of Pneumococcus pneumonia

  • is caused by a variant of the common cold virus (coronavirus)

  • is an acute form of asthma 

  • affects non-vegetarians much faster than the vegetarians


B.

is caused by a variant of the common cold virus (coronavirus)

The disease is due to infection with the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). The genome of this virus
has been completely sequenced. When viruses resembling SARS-CoV were isolated from Himalayan palm civets found in a live animal market in the Guangdong Province of China; it implicated these animals as the reservoir of the virus.


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Cattle fed with spoilt hay of sweet clover which contains dicumarol

  • are healthier due to a good diet

  • catch infections easily

  • may suffer vitamin K deficiency and prolonged bleeding

  • may suffer from beri beri due to deficiency of B vitamins.


Which one of the following is a pair of endangered species

  • Garden lizard and Mexican poppy

  • Rhesus monkey and Sal tree

  • Indian peacock and carrot grass

  • Hornbill and Indian aconite


Which one of the following is a matching pair of a drug and its category

  • Amphetamines - stimulant

  • Lysergic acid dimethyl amide - narcotic

  • Heroin - psychotropic

  • Benzodiazepine - pain killer


A baby has been born with a small tail. It is a case exhibiting

  • retrogressive evolution

  • mutation

  • atavism

  • metamorphosis


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Electron beam therapy is a kind of radiation therapy to treat

  • Enlarged prostrate gland

  • Gall bladder stones by breaking them

  • Certain types of cancer

  • Kidney stones.


If the Bengal Tiger becomes extinct

  • hyenas and wolves will become scars

  • the wild areas will be safe for man and domestic animals

  • its gene pool will be lost forever

  • the populations of beautiful animals like deers will get stabilized.


Nitrogen oxides produced from the emission of automobiles and power plants, are the source of fine air borne particles which lead to

  • photochemical smog

  • dry acid deposition

  • industrial smog

  • wet acid deposition


Which one of the following is correctly matched regarding an Institute and its location

  • National Institute of Virology - Pune

  • National lnstitute of Communicable Diseases - Lucknow

  • Central Drug Research Institute - Kasauli

  • National Institute of Nutrition - Mumbai


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The Great Barrier Reef along the east coast of Australia can be categorised as

  • population

  • community

  • ecosystem

  • biome.