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Biology (Medical Entrance)

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High growth at the time of exponential phase of human population growth curve is due to

  1. high birth and low death rates

  2. high birth and death rates

  3. low birth and high death rates

  4. low birth and death rates


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In S-shaped or sigmoid curve, the growth rate is very high. The birth and death rates are two major determinants of population growth. Growth rate will be high when birth rate exceeds the death rate. 

Jaw suspension characteristic of mammals is :

  1. amphistylic

  2. craniostylic

  3. autocliastylic

  4. hyostylic


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Jaw suspension characteristic of mammals is 'craniostylic'; considered it as a modification of autostylic suspension. Upper jaw fuses throughout its length with cranium and hyomandibular forms the ear ossicle stapes. 

The most abundant harmful and universal waste product of metabolism is :

  1. CO2

  2. uric acid

  3. H2O

  4. none of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

CO2 and H2O are the end product of complete aerobic oxidation of food through Krebs cycle and Electron Transport Chain (ETC), CO2 is most abundant, harmful and universal waste product of metabolism.

Which of the following marriages is not suitable genetically?

  1. Both Rh (-ve)

  2. Both Rh (+ve)

  3. Man Rh (+ve) and women Rh (-ve)

  4. Man Rh (-ve) and women Rh (+ve)


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Marriage between a Rh (+ve) man and Rh (-ve) woman is not suitable.

Kidney of man is :

  1. Pronephros

  2. Mesonephros

  3. Metanephros

  4. Opisthonephros


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Kidney of man is metanephros.The development of the kidney proceeds through a series of successive phases, each marked by the development of a more advanced kidney: the pronephros, mesonephros, and metanephros.The pronephros is the most immature form of kidney, while the metanephros is most developed. The metanephros persists as the definitive adult kidney.  

Entamoeba histolytica differs from Amoeba proteus in not having the

  1. pseudopodia

  2. contractile vacuole

  3. ectoplasm

  4. nucleus


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Entamoeba histolytica differ from Amoeba proteus due to absence of contractile vacuole. It is monogenetic, dimorphic and parasitic protozoan found in intestine and causes amoebic dysentery or amoebiasis. 

The two words, according to binomial nomenclature designate :

  1. order and family

  2. genus and species

  3. species and variety

  4. family and genus


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus introduced binomial nomenclature.

Choose the correct statement with reference to Ascaris.

  1. Hatching of embryos takes place in the stomach due to lytic enzyme

  2. Adulthood is reached inside the body of the host in ten days

  3. Development and moulting takes place in the alveoli of lungs

  4. Hatching of embryos takes place within ten hours


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Larva of Ascaris first enter the host intestine and reaches the liver through portal system and lymph channel now it reaches to heart and then to lungs. In lungs, larva settles down in capillaries of alveoli for sometime and undergoes two moultings one after the other. 

The cavity of Bowman's capsule contains

  1. urea, glycogen and water

  2. urea and water

  3. blood plasma except blood protein

  4. concentrated blood


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The water and many dissolved substances form the blood are filtered into the lumen of the bowman's capsule. The glomerular filtrate contains a large amount of water and other substances. Thus, glomerular filtrate and blood plasma are similar except that glomerular filtrate does not have protein and fats. 

Sleeping sickness is caused by

  1. Try gambiense

  2. Try rangetii

  3. Try fruits

  4. Try cruzi


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sleeping sickness is caused by Trypanosoma gambiense. It is a flagellate parasite of human blood transmitted by tsetse fly. In more advanced condition, the patient sleeps continuously, convulsions occur then profound coma and finally death. 

End organs of Ruffini are receptors of

  1. chemical response

  2. cold

  3. pressure

  4. touch


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Ruffini ending or Ruffini corpuscle is a slowly adapting mechanoreceptor found in the cutaneous tissue of humans. It is named after Angelo Ruffini.This spindle-shaped receptor is sensitive to skin stretch, and contributes to the kinesthetic sense of and control of finger position and movement.

According to which theory thymus and brain are the main factors in ageing?

  1. mutation theory

  2. gene theory

  3. stress theory

  4. pacemaker theory


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Aging pacemaker theory suggests that one cell or one type of tissue interferes with cell proliferation, thereby initiating the process of senescence throughout the body.

A species is defined as the group of actually or potentially inter-breeding matural population producing fertile offspring and reproductively isolated from other groups.The above statement was given by :

  1. Carolus Linnaeus

  2. Mayr

  3. J.B. Lamarck

  4. Charles Darwin


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

According to the Mayr, a species is “the group of actually or potentially interbreeding natural population producing fertile offspring and reproductively isolated from other groups.” 

The chances of elimination of genes from a small population is an example of

  1. selection pressure

  2. speciation

  3. adaptation

  4. genetic drift


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Genetic drift or Sewall Wright effect is an important mechanism in evolutionary change in small populations. In a small population not all the alleles which are representative of that species may be present. Therefore, chance events may result in the elimination of that allele form population. 

Stenohaline fishes are represented by :

  1. fresh water fishes only

  2. marine fishes only

  3. those which can tolerate a narrow range of salinity in water

  4. those which can tolerate a wide range of salinity in water


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Stenohaline fishes are represented by those which can tolerate a wide range of salinity in water. 

Sometimes in children abnormal characteristics of tail are found, which is

  1. atavism

  2. mutation

  3. environmental disorder

  4. competition


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is atavism. 

A fungal disease of poultry is

  1. coccodousis

  2. mareks

  3. monilliasis

  4. coryza


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A fungal disease of poultry is monilliasis, which mainly occurs in young and growing chicks. 

Growth is an irreversible process seen at all organizational levels. It consists of :

  1. organ growth

  2. subcellular growth

  3. cell growth

  4. all of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Growth is an irreversible process seen at all organizational levels. It consist of cell growth. Growth is the result of the excess of the anabolic (synthetic) over the catabolic (destructive) processes in the organism. 

Which of the following structures is present characteristically only in mammalian brain?

  1. Corpus fibrosum

  2. Corpus callosum

  3. Corpus luteum

  4. Corpus striatum


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Corpus callosum is the commissure of the brain between the cerebral hemispheres in mammals. It helps in coordinating activities of two cerebral hemispheres.

The presence of arginase confirms that :

  1. urea cycle is operating

  2. urea cycle may be operating

  3. arginine is being converted into ornithine

  4. arginine is being converted into citrulline


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

During urea cycle, the cytosolic enzyme arginase cleaves arginase to yield urea and ornithine. Ornithine is transported into the mitochondrion to initiate another round of the urea cycle.

Urea formation takes place through :

  1. Nitrogen cycle

  2. Ornithine cycle

  3. Cori cycle

  4. Krebs' cycle


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Urea is formed in liver through ornithine cycle. The liver cells continuously release urea into the blood. Now, kidneys withdraw it from the blood to excrete in urine. 

The branch of science, which deals with improvement of human race genetically is

  1. Euthenics

  2. Eugenics

  3. Euphenics

  4. genetics


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Eugenics is the branch of study concerned with imporvement of human race by application of principles of genetic traits and thus improving human genotypes and gene pool. Euthenics is the branch of applied genetics under which are studied the ways and means of providing the best environmental conditions to ensure complete expression of all eugenics traits in developing children. Euphenics is the study of improvemnet of human race by altering the proteins during translation process in cells. This is also called medical engineering. Genetics is the study of hereditary characters and their inheritance.

Sudoriferous glands occur in

  1. lung

  2. kidney

  3. skin

  4. alimentary canal


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Sudorific gland or sudoriferous glands are found in skin or mammals. These glands secrete sweat to cool the body. 

_________ controls asscessory sexual characters in females.

  1. Estrogen

  2. Progestron

  3. Androgen

  4. Andrenalin


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Estrogens spur the development of the female secondary sex characteristics: enlargement of the breasts, appearance of hair under the arms and in the genital area, and the accumulation of fat in the hips and thighs. Estrogens also act with progesterone to stimulate the growth of the lining of the uterus, preparing it to receive a fertilized egg.

In the internal ear, the 'organ of Corti' which bears hear cells, is located in :

  1. scala tympani

  2. scala media

  3. scala vestibuli

  4. sacculus


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Scala media contains the organ of hearing, named organ of Corti. Organ of Corti is named after its discoverer Alfanso Corti. Organ of Corti rests on the basilar membrane and contains receptor hear cells, Deiter's cells (basal cells), cells of Hensen (supporting cells), etc. 

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