Multiple Choice Questions

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Assertion : Mast cells in the human body release excessive amounts of inflammatory chemicals which cause allergic reactions.

Reason : Allergens in the environment on reaching human body stimulate mast cells in certain individuals.

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If Assertion is true statement but Reason is false

  • If both Assertion and Reason are false statements


A.

If both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion

Mast cells act on body's defense mechanism. When some allergens like different pollutants, smog, smoke, pollen grains etc. come in contact with mastcell, they stimulate the mast cells. The allergic reaction is triggered by cross linking of IgE molecules on the surface of mast cells by allergen. And ultimately mast cells release excessive amounts of inflammatory chemicals which cause allergic reactions.


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Refractory period of a muscle fibre in mammals is

  • 0.8001 sec

  • 0.002 sec

  • 0.004 sec

  • 0.005 sec


Which of the following cytoplasmic granules contain histamine

  • Basophils

  • Acidophils

  • Eosinophils

  • Neutrophils


Which lg is produced in primary immune response

  • IgA

  • IgG

  • IgE

  • IgM


Liver damage caused by excessive drinking of alcohol is called

  • hepatitis

  • dematitis

  • liver cirrhosis

  • liver diarrhoea


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Which organ is considered as "Graveyard of RBC" where most of them are destroyed by macrophages

  • Red bone marrow

  • Spleen

  • Kidney

  • Intestine


Only one of the following four ways through which AIDS can spread?

  • Infected needles and syringes

  • Through mosquito bites

  • Looking after AIDS patient

  • Shaking hands, coughing, sneezing, hugging


The vector of the kala-azar is

  • Aedes sp

  • Anopheles stephenis

  • Culex fatigans

  • Phlebotomus sp


Which of the following is not immunised by triple antigen ?

  • Typhoid

  • Tetanus

  • Diptheria

  • Whooping cough


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Squeezing of leucocytes out from the endothelium of capillaries to fight foreign agents. is known as

  • haemolysis

  • diapaedesis

  • phagocytosis

  • rouleaux


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