Multiple Choice Questions

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Which one of the following is an environment related disorder with the correct main cause

  • Black lung disease (pneumoconiosis) found mainly in workers in stone quarries and crushers.

  • Blue baby disease (methaemoglobinaemia) due to heavy use of nitrogenous fertilizers in the area.

  • Non-hodgkin's lymphoma found mainly in workers involved in manufacture of neem based pesticides.

  • Skin cancer mainly in people exposed to benzene and methane.


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Blue baby disease (methaemoglobinaemia) due to heavy use of nitrogenous fertilizers in the area.

Blue baby syndrome is a pathological condition, called methemoglobinemia, in which blood's capacity for oxygen transport is reduced, resulting in bluish skin discoloration in infants. Blue baby syndrome begins when large amounts of nitrates in water are ingested by an infant and converted to nitrite by the digestive system. The nitrite then reacts with oxyhaemoglobin (the oxygen-carrying blood protein) to form metheglobin, which cannot carry oxygen.

Pneumoconiosis is a man-made, occupational lung diseases that are contracted by prolonged breathing of coal mine dust i.e. caused by the inhalation of dust. characterized by formation of nodular fibrotic changes in lungs.

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (or NHL) is a cancer of lymphoid tissue, a part of the lymphatic system. NHL is a heterogenous disease. Skin cancer is a malignant tumor that grows in the skin cells. It is commonly caused by exposure to the sun's UV rays


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

  • Morphine leads to delusions and disturbed emotions.

  • Barbiturates cause relaxation and temporary euphoria.

  • Hashish causes alteration of thoughts, perceptions and hallucinations.

  • Opium stimulates nervous system and causes hallucinations.


Which of the following match is correct?

  • Emphysema : reduction of surface area of alveoli and bronchi

  • Pneumonia : occupational disease with asbestos

  • Silicosis : inflammation of alveoli

  • Asthma : excessive secretion of bronchial mucus


The main reason why antibiotics could not solve all the problems of bacteria mediated diseases is

  • insensitivity of the individual following prolonged exposure to antibiotics

  • inactivation of antibiotics by bacterial enzymes

  •  decreased efficiency of the immune system

  •  the development of mutant strains resistant to antibiotics.


When a man inhales air containing normal concentration of O2 as well as CO he suffers from suffocation because

  • CO reacts with O2 reducing its percentage in air

  • haemoglobin combines with CO instead of O2 and forms carboxyhaemoglobin

  • CO affects diaphragm and intercostal muscle

  • CO affects the nerves of the lungs.


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When children play bare footed in pools of ditty water and flood water, they may suffer from disease like

  • leptospirosis and bilharzia

  • malaria, amoebic dysentery and leptospirosis

  • bilharzia, infective hepatitis and diarrhoea

  • guinea worm infection, elephantiasis and amoebic dysentery.


Which of the following sets includes all bacterial disease

  • Cholera, typhoid, mumps

  • Tetanus, tuberculosis, measles

  • Malaria, mumps, poliomyelitis

  • Diphtheria, leprosy, plague


The binding of antibodies to the antigens to produce a large insoluble complex is known as

  • antibody-antigen complex

  • agglutination

  • immunisation

  • suppressor cell reaction.


Assertion: Hybridoma cells are shifted to a medium deficient in nutrient which cannot be synthesized by myeloma cells.

Reason: This medium allows selection of hybridoma cells.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false.


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Assertion : Antigen can be easily recognized because it has antigenic determinants.

Reason : The recognition ability is innate.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


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