Multiple Choice Questions

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The respiratory centre in the brain is stimulated by

  • CO2 concentration in venous blood

  • O2 concentration in artery blood

  • CO2 concentration in artery blood

  • O2 concentration in venous blood


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CO2 concentration in artery blood

Respiratory centre controls rhe rate of respiration. It is located in medulla oblongata and pons. It has the following components:

(i) Inspiratory area

(ii) Pneumotaxic area

(iii) Expiratory area

(iv) Chemosensitive area

Chemoreceptors located on carotid and aortic bodies are sensitive to carbon dioxide levels in arterial blood. They send information to respiratory centre. Oxygen does not have a significant direct effect on the respiratory centre of the brain.


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Wooden doors swell up and get stuck during the rainy season. This is due to the phenomenon of

  • imbibition

  • endosmosis

  • capillarity

  • deplasmolysis


Which floral family has (9) + 1 arrangement or anthers in the androecium ?

  • Malvaceae

  • Rutaceae

  • Fabaceae

  • Caesalpinaceae


A human RBC is placed in 1.5% salt solution. It will

  • swell up

  • shrink

  • remain unaffected

  • burst


If a stimulus, several times greater than the threshold stimulus is provided to a muscle fibre, it will

  • contract with a larger force

  • contract with a smaller force

  • contract with the same force

  • undergo tetany.


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Which of these are considered most essential in the origin of life?

  • Enzymes

  • Nucleic acids

  • Carbohydrates

  • Proteins


Which of these are most widely used in genetic engineering?

  • Plastid

  • Plasmid

  • Mitochondrion

  • Ribosome


Porous wood has abundance of 

  • vessels

  • fibres only

  • tracheids

  • sieve tubes


Barr body is found in the cytoplasm during

  • interphase in cell of female mammal

  • interphase in cell of male mammal

  • prophase in cell of female mammal

  • prophase in cell of male mammal


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During the cell cycle, DNA content is doubled in the

  • G1 phase

  • S phase

  • G2 phase

  • end of M phase