NTSE Biology Application Biology MCQs Set B

Question: AIDS was first reported in

• a) Russia
• b) France
• c) U.S.A
• d) Germany

Answer: U.S.A

Question: Reverse transcriptase occurs in virus

• a) Influenza virus
• b) HIV
• c) Bacteriophage
• d) Vaccine virus

Answer: HIV

Question: Which of the following disease is caused by virus ?

• a) Malaria
• b) Polio
• c) Plague
• d) Tuberculosis

Answer: Polio

Question: Which viral disease is spread by mosquito ?

• a) Plague
• b) Typhus
• c) Yellow fever
• d) Elephantiasis

Answer: Yellow fever

Question: The disease caused by bacteria is

• a) Amoebic dysentery
• b) Arthritis
• c) Beriberi
• d) Diphtheria

Answer: Diphtheria

Question: Mycoplasma are not sensitive to

• a) Penicillin
• b) Streptomycin
• c) Erythromycin
• d) Neomycin

Answer: Penicillin

Question: Ascaris is a specialized but not degenerated parasite as it is

• a) With a straight alimentary canal
• b) Dioecious
• c) Without respiratory organ
• d) Covered by cuticle resistant to digestive juices of host

Answer: Covered by cuticle resistant to digestive juices of host

Question: Filaria worm is

• a) Wuchereria bancrofti
• b) Bruigia malayi
• c) Brugia timori
• d) All of the above

Answer: Wuchereria bancrofti

Question: Growth of population is due to

• a) natality an emigration
• b) natality and immigration
• c) mortality and emigration
• d) mortality and immigration

Answer: natality and immigration

Question: NMR is considered better than CT scan in

• a) ability to obtain images in any plane
• b) study of tissue metabolism
• c) not unit ionising radiation
• d) All the above

Answer: All the above

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Question: Ultrasound in of

• a) Low frequency
• b) Frequency lower than 500 Hz
• c) Frequency
• d) Frequency 1 to 15 MHz

Answer: Frequency 1 to 15 MHz

Question: Which of the following is cancer of blood ?

• a) Lymphoma
• b) Leukemia
• c) Myeloma
• d) Sarcoma

Answer: Leukemia

Question: EEG provides information about electrical activity of

• a) Brain
• b) Heart
• c) Kidney
• d) Liver

Answer: Brain

Question: Status of fetus in womb can be studied by

• a) Simple X-ray
• b) Ultra-sound scanning
• c) Barium X-ray
• d) Through operation only

Answer: Ultra-sound scanning

Question: Confirmation of ELISA positive of AIDS is done by

• a) Western blot
• b) Northern blot
• c) Southern blot
• d) All of the above

Answer: Western blot

Question: Waves PQRST are read in diagnostic technique called

• a) ECG
• b) EEG
• c) MRI
• d) Ultrasound

Answer: ECG

Question:

22.      Number of beams of X-rays employed in CT-scanning is

            (A)                       (B)                    (C)          (D) 

• a) 5-20
• b) 100-120
• c) 10,000-15,000
• d) more than 30,000

Answer: more than 30,000

Question: The group of bacterial disease is :

• a) Mumps, Measles, Kala azar and Cholera
• b) Small pox, Tetanus, Trichinosis and Trench fever
• c) Measles, Polio, Diphtheria and Tetanus
• d) Cholera, Typhoid, Diphtheria and Tetanus

Answer: Cholera, Typhoid, Diphtheria and Tetanus

Question: Malaria is caused by

• a) Plasmodium
• b) Salmonella typhosa
• c) Clostridium tetani
• d) None of these

Answer: Plasmodium

Question: Common cold is a-

• a) Bacterial disease
• b) Viral disease
• c) Protozoan disease
• d) Round worm disease

Answer: Viral disease

Question: Health is

• a) Complete physical well being
• b) Mental well being
• c) Social well being
• d) All the above

Answer: All the above

Question: Mild grazing in grasslands

• a) Stimulates growth of grasses
• b) Arrests growth of grasses
• c) Retard growth of grasses
• d) Destroys vegetation

Answer: Stimulates growth of grasses

Question: Renewable products are available from

• a) Fossil fuels
• b) Agriculture
• c) Metal
• d) Petrol

Answer: Agriculture

Question: Metallic minerals and fossil fuels are

• a) Non-renewable resources
• b) Inexhaustible resources
• c) Renewable
• d) None of the above

Answer: Non-renewable resources

Question: Social forestry is

• a) Management of forests by cooperative societies
• b) Growing and management of useful plants on common lands
• c) Growing one type of trees
• d) Growing different types of plants together

Answer: Growing and management of useful plants on common lands

Question: Water is a resource

• a) Non degradable non maintainable
• b) Degradable maintainable
• c) Renewable
• d) None renewable

Answer: Renewable

Question: Which of the following grouped under cereals ?

• a) Tomato
• b) Rice
• c) Potato
• d) Mango

Answer: Rice

Question: Quinine is obtained from

• a) Opium
• b) Cinchona
• c) Ferula
• d) Rauvolfia

Answer: Cinchona

Question: Which of the following is used as a spice ?

• a) Mustard
• b) Castor
• c) Berseem
• d) Turmeric

Answer: Turmeric

Question: Common name of Gossypium is

• a) Fennel
• b) Cotton
• c) Ginger
• d) Pepper

Answer: Cotton

Question: Which of the following products is obtained from apiculture

• a) Apitoxin
• b) Wax
• c) Honey
• d) All of the above

Answer: All of the above

Question: Which of the following is a bread of hen ?

• a) Murrah
• b) Surti
• c) Sahiwal
• d) leghorn

Answer: leghorn

Question: Pisciculture is -

• a) Rearing of bees
• b) Rearing of honey bees
• c) Rearing of cattle
• d) Rearing of fishes

Answer: Rearing of fishes

Question: The technique is which foreign DNA is precipitated over surface of metal particles for passing intro target cell is

• a) Injection
• b) Electroporation
• c) Particle gun
• d) Chemical mediated gene transfer

Answer: Particle gun

Question: Enzyme that cuts DNA at specific sites is

• a) DNA ligase
• b) DNA polymerase
• c) Restriction endonuclease
• d) Reverse transcriptase

Answer: Restriction endonuclease

Question: Bt cotton is preferred over other varieties of cotton because of it’s

• a) High yield
• b) Quick growth
• c) Weedicidal property
• d) Resistance to bollworm

Answer: Resistance to bollworm

Question: Gene gun can introduce genes into cells with the help of

• a) Plasmids
• b) Cosmids
• c) Microscopic pellets
• d) Phagemids

Answer: Microscopic pellets

Question: Endonucleases break DNA at specific sites called

• a) Pallinotropic sequences
• b) Conserved sites
• c) Restriction sites
• d) Both A and B

Answer: Both A and B

Question: For DNA fingerprinting, DNA is obtained from

• a) WBCs
• b) Hair root cells
• c) Body secretion
• d) All of the above

Answer: All of the above

Question: Genetic engineering is

• a) Plastic surgery
• b) Addition or removal og genes
• c) Study of extra nuclear genes
• d) All of the above

Answer: Addition or removal og genes

Question: Advancement in genetic engineering has been possible due to discovery of

• a) Oncogenes
• b) Transposons
• c) Restriction endonuclease
• d) Exonouclease

Answer: Restriction endonuclease

Question: Plasmids are vectors for gene cloning because they

• a) Self replicate in bacterial cells
• b) Replicate freely outside the bacterial cells
• c) Can be multiplied in culture
• d) Can be multiplied in laboratories by using enzymes

Answer: Self replicate in bacterial cells

Question: Quinine is obtained from

• a) Opium
• b) Cinchona
• c) Ferula
• d) Rauvolfia

Answer: Cinchona

Question: Water is a resource

• a) Non degradable non maintainable
• b) Degradable maintainable
• c) Renewable
• d) None renewable

Answer: Renewable

Question: Which of the following products is obtained from apiculture

• a) Apitoxin
• b) Wax
• c) Honey
• d) All of the above

Answer: All of the above