Multiple Choice Questions

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The "Repeating Unit" of glycogen is

  • fructose

  • mannose

  • glucose

  • galactose


C.

glucose

Glycogen is a multibranched polysaccharide of glucose that serves as a form of energy storage in humans, animals, fungi, and bacteria. The polysaccharide structure represents the main storage form of glucose in the body.


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The major site of protein breakdown to form free amino acids is in the

  • kidney

  • spleen

  • liver

  • bone-marrow


Cells in G0 phase of cell cycle

  • exit cell cycle

  • enter cell cycle

  • suspend cell cycle

  • terminate cell cycle


The duration of cardiac cycle is

  • 0.8 s

  • 0.8 µs

  • 0.08 s

  • 0.008 s


The resolving power of a compound microscope will increase with

  • decrease in wavelength of light and increase in numerical aperture

  • increase in wavelength of light and decrease in numerical aperture

  • increase in both wavelength of light and numerical aperture 

  • decrease in both wavelength of light and numerical aperture


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Choose the correct non-protein amino acid

  • hydroxyproline

  • hydroxylysine

  • cystine

  • y-amino butyric acid


Collagen is a

  • phosphoprotein

  • globulin

  • derived protein

  • scleroprotein


Pellagra is caused due to deficiency of the vitamin

  • thiamine

  • niacinn

  • pyridoxin

  • biotin


The specific region of hypothalamus, responsible for physiological sweat secretion, is

  • para-ventricular nucleus

  • supra-optic nucleus

  • median eminence

  • pars distalis


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Osteomalacia is a disease caused by the deficiency of

  • calciferol

  • tocopherol

  • retinol

  • phylloquinone