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1. Type of psuedopodium found in amoeba:
1) Reticulopodium
2) Actinopodium
3) Rhizopodium
4) Axopodium
Ans: 3

2. Which of the following fish incubate eggs in their buccal cavity ?
1) Carps
2) Salmons
3) Sharks
4) Cichlids
Ans: 4

3. This male animal shows aggressive courtship behaviour immobilizes female by wraping her in the web of silk thread?
1) Coconut carb
2) Crab spider
3) Fire fly
4) Silk worm
Ans: 2

4. In Ascaris the reserved food is stored in :
1) Muscles
2) Intestine
3) Epidermis
4) All of these
Ans: 3

5. "Chiastoneury " is associated with which phylum?
1) Protozoa
2) Annelida
3) Arthropoda
4) Mollusca
Ans: 4

6. Honey Bee's venom is used for the treatment of ?
1) Malaria
2) Arthritis
3) Jaundice
4) Cholera
Ans: 2

7. Tree shrews are the best example of which type of mating behaviour?
1) Monogamous
2) Polyandrons
3) Polygynous
4) Polygamous
Ans: 1

8. Wall of Bowman's Capsule is lined by :
1) Ciliated cuboidal epithelium
2) Squamous epithelium
3) Non ciliated cuboidal epithelium
4) Ciliated columnar epithelium
Ans: 2

9. True example of warning colouration is :
1) Ranatra
2) Oriental sweet lip fish
3) Loligo
4) Monarch butterfly
Ans: 4

10. Evolution of Modern man approximately dates back to :
1) 2 lac years
2) 5 lac years
3) 7 lac years
4) 11 lac years
Ans: 1

11. The dried skin of scoliodon is used as abrasive for polishing furniture, metal it is known as :
1) Shagreen
2) Ambergis
3) Fish oil
4) All of these
Ans: 1

12. The term Annelida was coined by ;
1) Geganbaw
2) Lamark
3) Klein
4) Wingstrand
Ans: 2

13. The idea of Red Data Book was given by ?
1) Ronald Amundsen
2) Peter scott
3) David Attenborough
4) Stev Irwin
Ans: 2

14. Theory of Recapitulation for evolution was proposed by ?
1) A. Weismann
2) E. Haeckel
3) De Lamark
4) A.R. Wallace
Ans: 2

15. Union Government passed Biological Diversity Act in which year ?
1) 2000
2) 2001
3) 2002
4) 2003
Ans: 3

16. Foramen of Monro connects:
1) I ventricle to III ventricle
2) III ventricle to IV ventricle
3) II ventricle to III ventricle
4) I, II ventricles to III ventricle
Ans: 4

17. Climbing habit of squirrel would be termed as:
1) Cursorial
2) Aerial
3) Arboreal
4) Fossorial
Ans: 3

18. Scientist who coined the term taxonomy is :
1) De candolle
2) Simpson
3) Black welder
4) Davis and Heyword
Ans: 1

19. Which gland secretes oil like liquid to keep cornea of the eye smooth ?
1) Sudorific gland
2) Lacramal gland
3) Meibomian gland
4) Cerumin gland
Ans: 3

20. Part of brain known as seat of emotions is :
1) Hypothalamus
2) Limbic system
3) Medula oblogata
4) Cortex
Ans: 2

21. In teratogenesis congenital occurance of peg like limbs in human is called :
1) Micromelia
2) Meromelia
3) Microphalmia
4) Chorioretinitis
Ans: 2

22. In Human Heart Thebesius value is present in :
1) Left Auricle
2) Right Auricle
3) Coronary sinus
4) Aorta
Ans: 3

23. The largest living fish in the world is :
1) Carcharhinus
2) Scoliodon sorrakowah
3) Rhyncodon typus
4) Scoliodon dumerilli
Ans: 3

24. Which of the largest Zoogeographic region :
1) Australian
2) Ethopian
3) Palaearctic
4) Oriental
Ans: 3

25. Which of the following is also known as "fire coral" :
1) Millepora
2) Tubularia
3) Pennaria
4) Physalia
Ans: 1

26. A pleiotropic gene:
a) Is a gene evolved during Pliocene
b) Controls a trait only in combination with another gene
c) Controls multiple traits in an individual
d) Is expressed only in primitive plants
Ans: C

27. A gene showing codominance has:
a) Alleles tightly linked on the same chromosome
b) Alleles that are recessive to each other
c) Both alleles independently expressed in the heterozygote
d) One allele dominant on the other
Ans: C

28. Pick out the correct statements:
a) Haemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disease
b) Down’s syndrome is due to aneuploidy
c)   Phenylketonuria is an autosomal recessive gene disorder
d)   Sickle cell anaemia is an X-linked recessive gene disorder
a) A and D are correct
b) B and D are correct
c) A,C and D are correct
d) A,B and C are correct
Ans: D

29. Which one of the following is not a property of cancerous cells whereas the remaining three are?
a) They compete with normal cells for vital nutrients
b) They do not remain confined in the area of formation
c) They divide in an uncontrolled manner
d) They show contact inhibition
Ans: D

30. At which stager HIV infection does one usually show symptoms of AIDS?
a) Within 15 days of sexual contact with an infected person
b) When the infected retro virus enters host cells
c) When HIV damages large number of helper T- Lymphocytes
d) When the viral DNA is produced by reverse transcriptase
Ans: C

31. Match each disease with its correct type of vaccine
a)Tuberculosis i) harmless virus
b)Whooping cough ii) inactivated toxin
c)Diphtheria iii) killed bacteria
d)Polio iv) harmless bacteria
a)   b)   c) d)
a) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
b) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
c) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
d) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
Ans: C

32. Which of the following is correct regarding AIDS causative agent HIV?
a) HIV is enveloped virus that contains two identical molecules of single-stranded RNA and two molecules of reverse transcriptase
b) HIV is unenveloped retrovirus
c) HIV does not escape but attacks the acquired immune response
d) HIV is enveloped virus containing one molecule of single – stranded RNA and one molecule of reverse transcriptase
Ans: A

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