Multiple Choice Questions

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Which of the following is not a mental disorder?

  • Epilepsy

  • Neurosis

  • Psychosis

  • Plague


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Plague

Plague is also known as black death (due to dark blue areas of skin caused by haemorrhages). It is caused by a rod-shaped Gram negative bacterium, Yersinia pestis. This bacterium occurs in blood of rat and transmits from one rat to other by the rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis.


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Fifth cranial nerve of frog is called

  • vagus

  • trigeminal

  • optic

  • ophthalmic


Spindle fibres of mitotic cell are made up of

  • tubulin

  • actin

  • myosin

  • collagen


Systemic heart refers to

  • entire heart in lower vertebrates

  • the two ventricles together in humans

  • the heart that contracts under stimulation from nervous system

  • left auricle and left ventricle in higher vertebrates


If frog's brain is crushed, even then its leg moves on pinpointing. It is called

  • simple reflex

  • conditional reflex

  • neurotransmitter function

  • autonomic nerve condition


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Brunner's glands are present in

  • duodenum

  • oesophagus

  • ileum

  • stomach


Which of the following is made up of a single bone in mammals?

  • Dentary

  • Hyoid

  • Upper jaw

  • All of these


Gemmule formation in sponges are useful in

  • asexual reproduction

  • sexual reproduction

  • parthenogenesis

  • parthenocarpy


Sella turcica is found

  • near pituitary

  • in bones

  • in joints

  • near thyroid


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Acromegaly is due to hypersecretion of

  • insulin

  • thyroxine

  • growth hormone

  • None of these