Multiple Choice Questions

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Which match is true?

  • Vitamin deficiency disease Vitamin Source
    Severe bleeding Tocopherol Milk, egg
  • Anaemia Ascorbic acid Lemon, orange
  • Night blindness Retinol Carrot, milk
  • Sterility Calciferol Milk, butter


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Night blindness Retinol Carrot, milk

Night blindness is the inability to see in dim light or at night. It is due to disorder of the cells in the retina that are responsible for vision in dim light and can result from dietary deficiency of vitamin A (retinol).

Name Sources Effect of deficiency
Vitamin C/ Ascorbic acid Citrus fruits such as lemon, orange etc. Green vegetables, Potatoes etc. Scurvy is characterised by wound healing an dgrowth retardation etc.
Vitamin D/ Ergocalciferol and Cholecalciferol Synthesized in skin cells in sunlight. Also found in butter, liver, kidneys, egg yolk etc. Rickets, a disorder of children of 6 months to 2 years.
Vitamin E/ Tocopherol Green vegetables, oils, egg yolk, wheat, animal tissues Reversible sterility in female.


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One common example of simple reflex is

  • tying your shoe laces while talking to another person and not looking at them

  • watering of mouth at the sight of a favourite food

  • climbing up a stairs in dark without stumbling

  • closing of eyes when strong light is flashed across them.


Assertion: Organ of Corti rests on tectorial membrane.

Reason: It helps to maintain equilibrium of body

  • 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.


Injury to vagus nerve in humans is not likely to affect

  • tongue movements

  • gastrointestinal movements

  • pancreatic secretion

  • cardiac movements.


Which of the following is an eye disease?

  • Hepatitis

  • Measles

  • Glaucoma

  • Bronchitis


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Assertion : Connective tissue inside the brain is essential for conduction of nerve impulse.

Reason : Connective tissue hold together the nerve cells of brain.

  • 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: Rhabdome is present in Palaemon.

Reason: Rhabdome has an important role in digestion

  • 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.


The black pigment in the eye which reduces the internal reflection is located in

  • retina

  • iris

  • cornea

  • sclerotic


Hearing impairment affects which part of brain?

  • Frontal lobe

  • Parietal lobe

  • Temporal lobe

  • Cerebellum


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Assertion : Astigmatism is due to uneven curvature of lens.

Reason : It is treated with cylindrical lenses.

  • 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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