Question Bank No: 1

1. Goitre can occur as a consequence of all the following except:

 a)Iodine deficiency
 b)Pituitory Adenoma
 c)Grave's disease
 d)Excessive intake of exogenous thyroxine

2. Motile zygire of Plasmodium occurs in

 a)Human RBCs
 b)Human liver
 c)Gut of female Anopheles
 d)Salivary glands of Anopheles

3. Which one of the following is not a property of cancerous cells whereas the remaining three are?

 a)They divide in an uncontrolled manner
 b)They show contant inhibition
 c)They complete with normal cells for vital nutrients
 d)They do not remian confined in the area of formation

4. Cirrhosis of live is caused by the chronic intake of

 a)Tobacco (Chewing)
 b)Cocaine
 c)Opium
 d)Alcohol

5. Common cold differs from pneumonia in, that

 a)Pneumonia is caused by a virus while the common cold is caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae
 b)Pneumonia pathogen infects alveolo whereas the common cold affects nose and respiratory passage but not the lings
 c)Pneumonia is a communicable disease whereas the common cold is a nutritional deficiency disease
 d)Pneumonia can be prevented by a live attenuated bacterial vaccine whereas the common cold has no effective vaccine

6. Which of the following is a pair of viral diseases?

 a)Typhoid, Tuberculosis
 b)Ringworm, AIDS
 c)Common cold, AIDS
 d)Dysentery, Common cold

7. A tumor enclosed within a capsule is termed

 a)Benign
 b)Metastasis
 c)Malignant
 d)Basophils

8. Which of the following disease is due to an allergic reaction?

 a)Enteric fever
 b)Hay fever
 c)Skin cancer
 d)Goitre

9. Use of anti-histamines and steroids give a quick relief from

 a)Headache
 b)Allergy
 c)Nausea
 d)Cough

10. Which of the following disease is caused by virus and transmitted by mosquito

 a)Plague
 b)Typhus
 c)Yellow fever
 d)Filariasis

11. Suspension of attenuated pathogen that stimulates antibody formation is

 a)Antitoxin
 b)Vaccine
 c)Antibiotic
 d)Serum

12. Alzheimer disease in humans is associated with the deficiency of

 a)Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA)
 b)Dopamine
 c)Glutamic acid
 d)Acetylcholine

13. Cancer cells are damaged by radiations while others are not because cancer cells are

 a)Undergoing rapid divisions
 b)Different in nature
 c)Starved
 d)None of the above

14. At which stage of HIV infection does one usually show symptoms of AIDS?

 a)Within 15 days of sexual contact with an infected person
 b)When the infecting retrovirus enters host cells
 c)When viral DNA is produced by reverse transcriptase
 d)When HIV replicated rapidly in helper T-lymphocytes and damages large number of these

15. A health disorder that results from the deficiency of thyroxine in a adults and characterized by (i) a low metabolic rate, (ii) increase in body weight and (iii) tendency to retain water in tissues is

 a)Cretinism
 b)Hypothyroidism
 c)simple goitre
 d)Myxoedema

16. A metastatic cancerous tissue is termed 'sarcoma' if the disorder is in

 a)Fibroblasts
 b)Epithelial cells
 c)Immune system
 d)Circulatory system