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Multiple Choice Questions

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

  • antibody-antigen complex

  • agglutination

  • immunisation

  • suppressor cell reaction.


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.


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.


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Which of the following sets includes all bacterial disease

  • Cholera, typhoid, mumps

  • Tetanus, tuberculosis, measles

  • Malaria, mumps, poliomyelitis

  • Diphtheria, leprosy, plague


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.


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.


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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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.


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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