Multiple Choice Questions

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What is diapedesis?

  • A kind of amoeboid movement.

  • The process of filtration of urea in kidney.

  • A type of locomotion found in Hydra

  • Migration of WBCs into the tissue spaces from blood capillaries


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Migration of WBCs into the tissue spaces from blood capillaries

WBCs can change their shape like amoeba and are thus, capable of amoeboid movement. This enables them to squeeze out of blood capillaries into the tissues. This process is called diapedesis.


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Intermediate host is absent in the infection of

  • Plamosdium

  • Trypanosoma

  • Entamoeba

  • Filarial worm


Duodenum has characteristic Brunner's gland which secretes two hormones called

  • prolactin, parathormone

  • secretin, cholecystokinin

  • enterocrinin, duocrinin

  • gastrin, enterogastrone


Respiration is controlled by

  • medulla oblongata

  • cerebellum

  • hypothalamus

  • cerebrum


Which one feature is common to leech, cockroach and scorpion?

  • Nephridia

  • Ventral nerve cord

  • Cephalization

  • Antennae


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Which one of the following is a sesamoid bone?

  • Pelvis

  • Patella

  • Pterygoid

  • Pectoral girdle


Which of the following nerves arises from organ of Corti?

  • Olfactory nerve

  • Cochlear nerve

  • Abducens nerve

  • None of these


Which of the following is the characteristic of PS-I?

  • It is active only upto 680 nm of light.

  • The reaction centre of PS- I is P680.

  • PS- I is reduced by the electrons released in photolysis of water.

  • PS-I is involved in non-cyclic photophosphorylation.


The type of epithelial cells which line the inner surface of Fallopian tubes, bronchioles and small bronchi are known as

  • squamous epithelium

  • columnar epithelium

  • ciliated epithelium

  • cuboidal epithelium


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Which one of the following depresses brain activity and produces feelings of calmness, relaxation and drowsiness?

  • Morphine

  • Valium

  • Amphetamines

  • Hashish