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This section includes 17 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Biology knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
The term?antibiotic? was coined by [MH-CET 2000; CBSE PMT 2003; BHU 2004; Pb. PMT 2004] |
| A. | Alexander fleming |
| B. | Edward Jenner |
| C. | Louis pasteur |
| D. | Selman Waksman |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
Rishikesh is famous for the production of [AIIMS 2004] |
| A. | Antibiotics |
| B. | Heavy electricals |
| C. | Fertilizers |
| D. | Transistorized radios |
| Answer» B. Heavy electricals | |
| 3. |
The poisons produced in the body by bacteria are called |
| A. | Toxins |
| B. | Antitoxins |
| C. | Toxicoids |
| D. | Wastes |
| Answer» B. Antitoxins | |
| 4. |
Passive immunity can be obtained by injecting [CPMT 1983, 92; DPMT 1986] |
| A. | Antigens |
| B. | Antibodies |
| C. | Antibiotics |
| D. | Vaccination having weakened germs |
| Answer» C. Antibiotics | |
| 5. |
B-cells are lymphocytes which produce the humoral immunity. These cells are produced by |
| A. | Liver |
| B. | Spleen |
| C. | Thymus |
| D. | Bone marrow |
| Answer» E. | |
| 6. |
Active immunity is obtained by [BHU 1986] |
| A. | Antibodies |
| B. | Weakened germs infection |
| C. | Natural resistance |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Natural resistance | |
| 7. |
Which is an auto immune disease [Orissa JEE 2004] |
| A. | Cancer |
| B. | Asthma |
| C. | Erythroblastosis foetalis |
| D. | Rheumatoid arthritis |
| Answer» D. Rheumatoid arthritis | |
| 8. |
Thalidomide is a non-barbiturate sedative drug which was to be given to pregnant women. Its use was withdrawn in 1961 because it resulted in phocomelia. This condition illustrates [CBSE PMT 1988] |
| A. | Early abortion of foetus |
| B. | Poor development of foetus |
| C. | Malformation of foetus |
| D. | Erythroblastosis foetalis |
| Answer» D. Erythroblastosis foetalis | |
| 9. |
Most of eubacterial antibiotics are obtained from |
| A. | Rhizobium |
| B. | Bacillus |
| C. | Streptomyces |
| D. | Cephalosporium |
| Answer» C. Streptomyces | |
| 10. |
Yeast Saccharomyces cervisiae is used in the industrial production of |
| A. | butanol |
| B. | citric acid |
| C. | tetracycline |
| D. | ethanol |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
Jaya and Ratna developed for green revolution in India are the varieties of |
| A. | maize |
| B. | rice |
| C. | wheat |
| D. | bajra |
| Answer» C. wheat | |
| 12. |
Organic farming is the technique of raising crops through use of |
| A. | Manures |
| B. | Resistant varieties |
| C. | Biofertilisers |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 13. |
What are the advantage of gobar gas over conventional utilization? |
| A. | More efficient source of energy |
| B. | Used as good fertilizer |
| C. | Reduces the chances of spreading of pathogens |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 14. |
IPM is |
| A. | International Pest Management Programme. |
| B. | International Pesticide Management Programme. |
| C. | Integrated Pest Management Programme. |
| D. | Internal Pest Management Programme. |
| Answer» D. Internal Pest Management Programme. | |
| 15. |
Silk worm is a |
| A. | fly |
| B. | worm |
| C. | moth |
| D. | beetle |
| Answer» D. beetle | |
| 16. |
Domestication of honey bees is called |
| A. | Sericulture |
| B. | Apiculture |
| C. | Tissue culture |
| D. | Pisciculture |
| Answer» C. Tissue culture | |
| 17. |
Two microbes found to be very useful in genetic engineering are |
| A. | Vibrio cholerae and a tailed bacteriophage |
| B. | Diplococcus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. |
| C. | Crown gall bacterium and Caenorhabditis elegans |
| D. | Escherichia coil and Agrobacterium tumefaciens |
| Answer» E. | |