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Health and Hygene

Description: PRACTICE MCQ FOR ICSE BOARD EXAM
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Tags: HEALTH DISEASES BACTERIAL VIRAL FUNGAL AIDS TYPHOID CHOLARA Significance of Health Intrinsic Factors Malaria Gastro-Intestinal Disorders AIDS and Causes of Spread Inflammation Antibiotics Hemophilia Disease and its Causes Infectious Disease
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AIDS caused by HIV is transmitted in many ways. Which of the following is not a mode of transmission of HIV?

  1. Sharing a syringe

  2. Transfusion of contaminated blood

  3. Sexual contact with infected person

  4. Sharing contaminated razors

  5. Shaking hands with infected person

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Shaking hands with infected person cannot transmit HIV.

Which of the following is the most suitable definition for health?

  1. Health means the absence of disease.

  2. Health is a reflection of happiness.

  3. Health is a state of balanced body and mind.

  4. Health is a symbol of economic well being.

  5. Health is a state of physical, mental and social well being.

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

According to WHO, health is a state of physical, mental and social well being.

The malarial parasite plasmodium is transmitted from one person to another through an insect vector. Identify the vector.

  1. Male culex mosquito

  2. Female culex mosquito

  3. Male anopheles mosquito

  4. Female anopheles mosquito

  5. Female aedes mosquito

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Female anopheles mosquito transmit malaria.

Which of the following is not a gastrointestinal disorder?

  1. Jaundice

  2. Diarrhea

  3. Constipation

  4. Vomiting

  5. Pneumonia

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Pneumonia is a respiratory disease.

Which of the following substances causes inflammatory response?

  1. Heparin

  2. Hirudin

  3. Antithrombin

  4. Histamine

  5. Prothrombin

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Inflammatory response in man is an immune response caused by histamine.

Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?

  1. Vitamin A --- Antixerophthalmic vitamin

  2. Vitamin C --- Healing of wound

  3. Vitamin D --- Antisterility vitamin

  4. Vitamin E --- Beauty vitamin

  5. Vitamin K --- Antihemorrhagic vitamin

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Vitamin E is antisterility vitamin. Vitamin D is not anti-sterility vitamin. It is anti-rickets vitamin. 

Which of the following diseases cannot be treated by using antibiotics?

  1. Pneumonia

  2. Typhoid

  3. Syphilis

  4. Tuberculosis

  5. Common cold

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Common cold is a viral disease and cannot be treated using antibiotics.

Which of the following diseases is not caused by virus?

  1. AIDS

  2. Rabies

  3. Poliomyelitis

  4. Mumps

  5. Tetanus

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Tetanus is a bacterial disease.

Which of the following is a sex linked genetic disease?

  1. Sickle cell anaemia

  2. Downs syndrome

  3. Beriberi

  4. Haemophilia

  5. Diabetes

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Haemophilia is a sex linked genetic disease.

Appearance of dry, scaly lesions on various parts of the body such as skin, nails and scalp are the main symptoms of fungal disease. These lesions are accompanied by intense itching and irritation. Identify the disease.

  1. Aspergillosis

  2. Dandruff

  3. Scabies

  4. Ring worm

  5. Amoebiasis

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Appearance of dry, scaly lesions on various parts of the body such as skin, nails and scalp are the main symptoms of a fungal disease. These lesions are accompanied by intense itching and irritation. 

Cretinism in children is caused by hyposecretion of a hormone. Which of the following is that harmone?

  1. Calcitonin

  2. Growth hormone

  3. Parathormone

  4. Thyroxine

  5. Insulin

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Hyposecretion of thyroxine causes cretinism in children.

Human diseases are broadly classified into infectious and non-infectious diseases. Which of the following is/ are non-infectious diseases?

  1. Haemophilia
  2. Common cold
  3. Tetanus
  4. Sickle cell anaemia
  5. Rabies

  1. Only 1 and 2

  2. Only 1 and 3

  3. Only 2, 3 and 5

  4. Only 1 and 4

  5. Only 3 and 4

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Yes, both are non infectious diseases.

AIDS is a dreaded disease of present century. Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding AIDS?

  1. It is caused by HIV- a retrovirus.

  2. Retroviruses have RNA genomes that replicate through DNA intermediate.

  3. AIDS is an immuodeficiency disorder.

  4. Viral RNA genome is converted into DNA copy with the help of reverse transcriptase.

  5. HIV infection can be controlled by using immunosupressents.

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Immunosupressents cannot control HIV infection.

Vector borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya are common in many parts of India. Which of the following is the vector?

  1. Culex mosquito

  2. Anopheles mosquito

  3. Aedes mosquito

  4. Tiger mosquito

  5. Female culex

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Diseases like dengue and chikungunya are transmitted by aedes.

Sometimes readymade antibodies obtained from animal serum are injected into human body to develop immunity. This type of immunity is called ___________.

  1. active immunity

  2. autoimmunity

  3. humoral immunity

  4. passive immunity

  5. cell mediated immunity

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Sometimes ready made antibodies obtained from animal serum are injected into human body to develop immunity. This type of immunity is called passive immunity.

Some diseases like elephantiasis last for a long time, even as much as a lifetime. Such diseases are known as __________.

  1. infectious diseases

  2. non infectious diseases

  3. acute diseases

  4. chronic diseases

  5. communicable diseases

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Some diseases like elephantiasislast for a long time, even as much as a lifetime. Such diseases are called chronic diseases.

Chronic inflammation of the organs, abnormal swelling of lower limb, scrotum, penis, etc. are the symptoms of a disease caused by a disease caused by a worm called wucheraria. Which of the following is this disease?

  1. Malaria

  2. Ascariasis

  3. Taeniasis

  4. Filariasis

  5. Enterobiasis

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Chronic inflammation of the organs, abnormal swelling of lower limb, scrotum, penis, etc. are the symptoms of a disease caused by a worm called wucheraria, and the disease is filariasis.

Which of the following diseases can completely be eradicated by vaccination?

  1. Polio

  2. Chicken pox

  3. Rabies

  4. Small pox

  5. Mumps

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Small pox is a disease, which is completely eradicated by vaccination.

Which of the following diseases is caused by hormonal imbalance?

  1. Haemophilia

  2. Sickle cell anaemia

  3. Malaria

  4. Cretinism

  5. Night blindness

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Cretinism is caused by hormonal imbalance.

Which of the following diseases is caused by virus and is transmitted through mosquito bite?

  1. Malaria

  2. Filariasis

  3. Yellow fever

  4. Plague

  5. Elephantiasis

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Yellow fever is caused by virus and is transmitted through mosquito bite.

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