Multiple Choice Questions

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Vaccine for tuberculosis is known as

  • PAS vaccine

  • BCG vaccine

  • OPVA

  • DPT


B.

BCG vaccine

Baccillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) is the vaccine for tuberculosis. It was first used in 1921. BCG is the only vaccine available today for protection against tuberculosis. It is most effective in protecting children from the disease. BCG contains a live attenuated (weakened) strain of Mycobacterium bovis. This vaccine was developed by Calmette and Guerin at Pasteur Institute, Paris.


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Sporogony of malarial parasite occurs in

  • liver of man

  • RBCs of man

  • salivary glands of mosquito

  • stomach wall of mosquito


Active immunity means

  • Resistance developed after disease

  • Increasing quantity of blood

  • Resistance developed before the disease

  • Increasing rate of heart beat


Which of the following is mismatched?

  • Vitamin K- Beriberi

  • Vitamin D-Rickets

  • Vitamin C - Scurvy

  • Vitamin A-Xerophthalmia


Alcoholism may leads to

  • Skin cancer

  • Liver cirrhosis

  • Viral disease

  • Eye Infection


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Sir Godfrey Hounsfield developed the diagonosi technique of

  • CT scanning

  • MRI

  • Endoscopy

  • Bronchoscopy


In mammals, histamine is secreted by

  • Fibroblasts

  • Histocytes

  • Lymphocytes

  • Mast cells


Aspirin is a/an

  • antibiotic

  • antipyretic

  • antiseptic

  • none of the above


Secondary body cavity with segmented mesodermal lining is called

  • Haemocoel

  • Neurocoel

  • True Coelom

  • Pseudocoelom


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The protein products of tumour suppressor gene may

  • Be present in non-cancerous cells

  • Cause signal cell death

  • Regulate the cell cycle

  • All of the above


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