Multiple Choice Questions

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During the conduction of nerve impulse, the action potential is the result of movement of

  • Na+ from intracellular fluid to extracellular fluid

  • Na+ from extracellular fluid to intracellular fluid

  • Na+ towards both directions

  • None of the above


B.

Na+ from extracellular fluid to intracellular fluid

Nerve impulse is a wave of bioelectric disturbance that passes along a nerve during conduction of an excitation. The electrochemical potential developed during depolarisation is called action potential during which Na+ from extracellular fluid move the intracellular fluid.


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ADH controls water permeability of

  • collecting tube

  • distal convoluted tubule

  • proximal convoluted tubule

  • bowman's capsule


Apis dorsata refers to

  • rock bee

  • little bee

  • Indian bee

  • European bee


Which are the longest cells in the body of man ?

  • Muscle cells of legs

  • Bone cells

  • Nerve cells

  • None of the above


Which of the following is not a character of Chordata?

  • Dorsal tubular nerve cord

  • Pharyngeal gill slits

  • Presence of notochord

  • Presence of spinal cord


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Vitamin essential for proper functioning of liver and clotting of blood is

  • Vitamin- K

  • Vitamin- A

  • Vitamin- E

  • Vitamin- B12


The sliding filament theory of muscle contraction was proposed by

  • A.F. Huxley and A.P. Pullman

  • A.F. Huxley and H.E. Huxley

  • B. Pullman and A.F. Huxley

  • A. Pullman and E. Pullman


Which one is uricotelic ?

  • Frog and toads

  • Lizards and birds/cockroach

  • Cattle, monkey and man

  • Molluscs and teleost fishes


Salamandra atra is

  • ovoviviparous

  • oviparous

  • sexuaily sterile

  • parthenogenetic


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Flying fish is

  • Torpedo

  • Scoliodon

  • Anguilla

  • Exocoetus