Basic Biology Mcqs - Set 22

1)   Production of pyrogens is a __________ phenomenon?

a. Protective
b. Destructive
c. Constructive
d. Aggressive
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Protective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   Thermostat of human body is present in__________?

a. Fore brain
b. Hind Brain
c. Thalamus
d. Hypothalamus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hypothalamus

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   Which of the following structure in plant’s body is called excretophores?

a. Stem
b. Leaves
c. Flowers
d. Roots
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Leaves

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   The characteristic which enable animals to tolerate dehydration is called__________?

a. Osmoconformation
b. Osmoregulaton
c. Anhydrobiosis
d. Anhydrosis
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Anhydrobiosis

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   Which of the following fishes excrete large volume of diluted urine?

a. Bony Marine fishes
b. Fresh water fishes
c. Both depending upon the surrounding water
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Fresh water fishes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   Rose is an example of____________?

a. Hydrophytes
b. Mesophytes
c. Xerophytes
d. Halophytes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Mesophytes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   In a hot summer after noon, if your body’s Homeostatic machinery keep your internal temperature quite lower than that of external than this is an example of____________?

a. Positive feed back
b. Negative feed back
c. Feed back
d. Osmoregulation
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Negative feed back

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   Marine fish can keep their internal environment hypertonic with respect to the surrounding salty water by retaining.

a. Excessive urea which will increase their internal solute concentration and prevent body shrinkage in hypertonic environment
b. Trimethyl alanine
c. Ammonia
d. Trimethylamine oxide
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Trimethylamine oxide

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   Terrestrial animals like kangaroo rat survive even without drinking water since__________?

a. They don’t require water for their metabolic process
b. They can retain excessive water in their body during raining season
c. They feed on carbohydrate rich seeds which can provide them with metabolic water
d. They are anhydrobiotic organisms
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: They are anhydrobiotic organisms

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   Aquatic animals excrete nitrogenous waste commonly in the form of_____________?

a. Ammonia
b. Urea
c. Uric acid
d. Trimethylamine oxide
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ammonia

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   Protonephridia are present in____________?

a. Round worms
b. Flateworm
c. Tape worms
d. Segmented worms
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Flateworm

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   Which of the following constituent is/are maximum in the filtrate that leaves proximal convoluted tubules?

a. Glucose
b. Amino acids
c. Nitrogenous waste
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Nitrogenous waste

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   Which of the following mechanism explains development of anemia in Renal failure?

a. Failure of bone marrow is accompanied with renal failure
b. Destruction of RBC results from accumulated urea in the blood
c. Chronicity of the disease is respobsible for anemia
d. Failure of proper RBC synthesis, due to lack of chemical stimulation
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Failure of proper RBC synthesis, due to lack of chemical stimulation

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   Which adaptation is acquired by plants of cooler areas to prevent lipid crystal formation in cell membrane?

a. Change in membrane protein composition
b. Change in the solute composition of the cell membrane which prevents crystallization
c. Increase in proportion of unsaturated fatty acids
d. Development of heat shock proteins
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Increase in proportion of unsaturated fatty acids

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   Which of the following statement about Homeostasis is incorrect?

a. There is a definite control system that regulates the homeostatic activities
b. Homeostatic mechanisms keep the internal environment fixed despite of wide changes in external environment
c. Because of this the fluctuations of internal environment are of extremely narrow range as compared to that of external environment
d. All are correct
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Homeostatic mechanisms keep the internal environment fixed despite of wide changes in external environment

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   Which of the following fish drink large amount of sea water and excrete concentrated urine resulting in maximum salt excretion and minimal water loss?

a. Hagfish
b. Fresh water fishes
c. Bony fishes
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bony fishes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Normal body temperature in mamals like human beings is____________?

a. 26 – 28°C
b. 36 – 38°C
c. 46 – 48°C
d. 56 – 58°C
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 36 – 38°C

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   In osmosis water molecules move from area of _____________ through semipermeable memberane?

a. Higher solute concentration to lower solute concentration
b. Lower solute concentration to higher solute concentration
c. Lower solvent concentration to higher solvent concentration
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Lower solute concentration to higher solute concentration

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   Which of the following is most toxic?

a. Ammonia
b. Urea
c. Uric acid
d. Trimethylamine oxide
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ammonia

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   In Urea cycle __________ ammonia molecules combine with 1 CO2 molecule to form 1 molecule of urea.

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 2

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   Which of the vascular channels are related to Juxtramedullary nephrous only?

a. Afferent and efferent arterioles
b. Peritubualr capillaries
c. Vasa nervosa
d. Vasa recta
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Vasa recta

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   A stone measuring 0.4 cm, blocking the outlet of renal pelvis resulting in mild to moderate tract obstruction. Which of the following technique will be opted to remove this stone?

a. Kidney surgery
b. Burring a hole and removing the stone manually (nephrolithotomy)
c. Extracorporeal Shock wave lithotripsy
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Extracorporeal Shock wave lithotripsy

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   Bats & humming birds belong to___________?

a. Endotherms
b. Ectotherms
c. Heterotherms
d. Homeotherms
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Heterotherms

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   Thick, waxy & leathery cuticle around leaves is present in___________?

a. Hydrophytes
b. Mesophytes
c. Xerophytes
d. Halophytes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Xerophytes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   Which of the following animal excrete nitrogenous waste mainly as uric acid?

a. Hydra
b. Planaria
c. Humans
d. Birds
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Birds

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   Which of the following openings have cilia?

a. Nephrostome
b. Nephridiopore
c. Both of these
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Nephrostome

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   Malphighian tubules absorb waste materials and salts from__________?

a. Blood
b. Lymph
c. Gut
d. Hemolymph
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hemolymph

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   Which of the following filtrate contains excessive amount of amino acids, glucose, and salts?

a. Glomerular filtrate
b. Filtrate passing through ascending limb
c. Filtrate passing through distal conveluted tubule
d. Filtrate passing through collecting tubules
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Glomerular filtrate

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   Mammalian kidney, under restricted water supply can conserve water by over ________ % reabsorption of glomerular filtrate

a. 80.50%
b. 90.50%
c. 95.50%
d. 99.50%
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 99.50%

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   The nephridia of earthworm open into the coelom by_________?

a. Nephrostome
b. Nephridiopore
c. Flame cell
d. Anus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Nephrostome

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   Nephrostome in earthworm opens in____________?

a. External space
b. Internal Body cavity
c. In gut
d. In Bladder
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Internal Body cavity

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   Scolidon or dog fish belong to the group of fishes called__________?

a. Cartilaginous fishes
b. Bony fishes
c. Running fishes
d. Jawless fishes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cartilaginous fishes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   They are considered to be the most primitive and are surely the first of the vertebrates?

a. Frogs
b. Reptiles
c. Amphibinas
d. Jawless fishes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Jawless fishes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   Sub- phylum vertebrate is also known as__________?

a. Pisces
b. Craniata
c. Aves
d. Amphibia
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Craniata

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   The phylum chrordata comprise about how many species?

a. 25,000
b. 50,000
c. 100,000
d. 10,00,000
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 50,000

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   It is stiff rod of special cells surrounded by connecive tissue present in the mid -dorsal region and appears in the embryos of all chordates

a. Placenta
b. Notochord
c. Cranianta
d. Ligule
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Notochord

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   Snails belong to__________?

a. Cephalopodsxc
b. Gastropods
c. Bivalves
d. Athropods
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Gastropods

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   In mouth cavity of many molluscs there is a rasping tongue like structure_________provided with many horny teeth.

a. Ligule
b. Radula
c. Mantle
d. Muscle
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Radula

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   All insects have how many parts of legs?

a. 4
b. 2
c. 3
d. 6
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 3

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   In all arthropods,the body is covered with a chittinous cuticle which is secreted by the____________?

a. Endodermis
b. Mesophyll
c. Chitin
d. Epidermis
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Epidermis

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   In many which phylum the body of an organisms is usually divided in there regions called head, thorax and abdomen?

a. Arthropods
b. Chordata
c. Annelida
d. Echinodermata
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Arthropods

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   In man which organisms cause abscesses on the skin of arms or legs?

a. Ascaris
b. Bacteria
c. Ring worm
d. Suinea worm
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Suinea worm

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   Chitin in cockroach is absent in____________?

a. Epicuticle
b. Exocuticle
c. Endocuticle
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Epicuticle

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   Melanin pigment in cockroach is found in__________?

a. Epicuticle
b. Exocuticle
c. Endocuticle
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Exocuticle

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   The bristles on the body of the cockroach arise from__________?

a. Epidermis
b. Trichogen cell
c. Basement membrane
d. Malpighian cell
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Trichogen cell

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   The wax present on the body of cockroach is secreted:

a. Mucocytes
b. Leucocytes
c. Oenocytes
d. Granulocytes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Oenocytes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   Which organisms are sometimes called the ” pastures of the sea”?

a. Diatoms
b. Radiolarians
c. Dinoflagellates
d. Foraminiferans
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Diatoms

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   Diatoms belong to___________?

a. Chrysophyta
b. Bacillariophyceae
c. Xanthophyceae
d. Both A. and B.
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Both A. and B.

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   Which one of the following is representing the group of diatoms?

a. Pinnularia, Navicula, Cymbella, Melosira
b. Euglenamorpha, Hedneria , Heteronema, Colacium
c. Nostoc, Anabaena, Aulosira, Cylindrospermum
d. Cochlodinium, Gymnodinium, Lenodinium, Peridinium
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Pinnularia, Navicula, Cymbella, Melosira

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   Diatoms are found in__________?

a. Phytoplanktonic population
b. Freshwater lakes and ponds
c. Marine environment
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!