Multiple Choice Questions

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Which one of the following is the correct statement regarding the particular psychotropic drug specified

  • Hashish cause alter thought perceptions and hallucinations

  • Opium stimulates nervous system and cause hallucinations

  • Morphine leds to delusions and disturbed emotions

  • Morphine leds to delusions and disturbed emotions


A.

Hashish cause alter thought perceptions and hallucinations

Charas is the dried resinous extract from the flowering tops and leaves of Cannabis Sativa. In some countries, it is called hashish. It is an hallucinogen, which alters a person's thought, feeling and perceptions.

Psychotropic drugs (mood altering drugs) act on the brain and alter the behaviour, consciousness and power of perception. Barbiturates (derivative of barbituric acid) are general depressants for all excitable cells but the CNS is most sensitive to these drugs.

Opium is obtained from unripe seed pots of poppy plant (Papaver somniferum). Optimum has an analgesic (pain killing) effect and may also reduce anxiety and tension and lowers the blood pressure and breathing rate. 

Morphine ( a dream inducing derivative of opium) dream-inducing properties.

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Consider the following four measure (A-D) that could be taken to successfully grow chickpea in an area where bacterial blight disease is common

A) spray with Bordeaux mixture

B) control of the insect vector of the disease pathogen

C) Use of only disease-free seeds

D) Use of varieties resistant to the disease

Which two fo the above measures can control the disease?

  • B and C

  • A and B

  • C and D

  • C and D

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To which type of barriers under innate immunity, do the saliva in the mouth and the tears the eyes, belong?

  • Cytokine barriers

  • cellular barriers

  • Physiological barriers

  • Physiological barriers

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If you suspect major deficiency of antibodies in a person, to which of the following would you look for confirmatory evidence?

  • Serum albumins

  • Serum globulins

  • Fibrinogen in the plasma

  • Fibrinogen in the plasma

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A person showing unpredictable moods, outbursts of emotion, quarrelsome behaviour and conflicts with others is suffering from

  • schizophrenia

  • borderline personality disorder (BPD)

  • mood disorders

  • mood disorders

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The 'blue baby' syndrome results from

  • excess of chloride

  • methaemoglobin

  • excess of dissolved oxygen

  • excess of dissolved oxygen

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Mast cells secrete

  • hippurin

  • myoglobin

  • histamine

  • histamine

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HIV that causes AIDS, first starts destroying

  • B-lymphocytes

  • leucocytes

  • thrombocytes

  • thrombocytes

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Human insulin is being commericially produced from a transgenic species of 

  • Escherichia

  • Mycobacterium 

  • Rhizobium

  • Rhizobium

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Ascaris is characterised by 

  • the absence of true coelom but the presence of metamerism

  • the presence of neither true coelom nor metamerism

  • the presence of true coelom but the absence of metamerism

  • the presence of true coelom but the absence of metamerism

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