1000+ General Biology Set 2 MCQ for GRE [Solved]

1. The bird that lays the largest egg is
A. crow
B. ostrich
C. cuckoo
D. eagle
Answer : B

2. Under the immunisation programme's Govt. of India is providing vaccination to prevent some vaccine-preventable diseases. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
A. Tuberculosis
B. Diphtheria
C. Tetanus
D. Plague
Answer : D

3. Nucleus was first discovered by
A. Porter
B. Robert Brown
C. Palade
D. None of these
Answer : B

4. The influenza vaccine was discovered by
A. Salk
B. Khorana
C. Mittel
D. None of the above
Answer : A

5. The universal donor belongs to blood group
A. A
B. B
C. AB
D. O
Answer : D

6. Who considered evolution as due to mutation?
A. Charles Darwin
B. Lamarck
C. Hugo de Vries
D. Cuvier
Answer : C

7. HIV causes
A. cancer
B. hepatitis
C. AIDS
D. Herpes
Answer : C

8. Necrosis is a symptom which is recognised by
A. pattern colouration on leaves
B. little leaves
C. out growth
D. death of tissues
Answer : D

9. Injection of insulin causes
A. increase in glucose in blood
B. decrease in glucose in blood
C. increase in blood pressure
D. decrease in blood pressure
Answer : B

10. Which one is called anti-haemorrhagic vitamin?
A. A
B. C
C. E
D. K
Answer : D

11. Kwashiorkar is characterised by
A. dermatitis, changes in hair pigments and retarded brain growth
B. excretion of creatine in excess
C. tyrosinosis and alcaptonuria
D. None of these
Answer : A

12. Afforestation means
A. study of forests
B. growing new forests
C. destroying the forests
D. go into the forests
Answer : B

13. Vessels proceeding to the heart are
A. veins
B. arteries
C. capillaries
D. lymph ducts
Answer : A

14. The biologist who believed in the spontaneous creation of microorganisms was
A. Leuwenhock
B. Needham
C. Spallanzeni
D. Pasteur
Answer : B

15. What is the other name for the brain?
A. myelon
B. encephalon
C. cephalon
D. All the above
Answer : B

16. Scrub jungle Is characterised by
A. heavy rainfall
B. no rainfall
C. poor rainfall
D. none of the above
Answer : C

17. The gestation period for the elephant is
A. 10 months
B. 15 months
C. 22 months
D. 30 months
Answer : C

18. The small pox vaccine was discovered by
A. Louis Pasteur
B. Edward Jenner
C. John
D. Harvey
Answer : B

19. The theory that all animals and plants are made up of cells and they could arise only from pre-existing cells was propounded by
A. Robert Hooke
B. Matthias Schleiden and Theodore Schwann
C. Purkinije
D. Leuwenhoek
Answer : B

20. Stripes on the bodies of animals Indicate
A. mating habit
B. food habit
C. cave dwelling
D. matching of skin colour with the surroundings
Answer : D

21. The theory that cells arise from the pre-existing cells was proposed by
A. Nageli
B. Virchow
C. Schleiden
D. Muller
Answer : B

22. Insects that make a clicking sound are
A. crickets
B. beetles
C. flies
D. silver fish
Answer : B

23. Appearance of offspring resembling their remote ancestor is called
A. Atavism
B. Lethality
C. Mutation
D. Progeny
Answer : A

24. Legumes are highly nutritious because they are rich in
A. starch
B. oils
C. fat
D. protein
Answer : D

25. Blood plasma from which fibrinogen is removed is known as
A. serum
B. blood concentrate
C. lymph
D. antibody component
Answer : A

26. Which of the following diseases are not bacterial?
A. cholera and diphtheria
B. trichomonasis and malaria
C. tetanus and typhoid
D. tuberculosis and leprosy
Answer : B

27. Gases of Jupiter' are
A. Ammonia, Methane, Hydrogen
B. Sulphur, Urethane, Oxygen
C. Carbon, Phosphorus and Oxygen
D. Nitrogen, Hydrogen and Chlorine
Answer : A

28. Formation of blood
A. Histolysis
B. Histogenesis
C. Haemopoiesis
D. Haemolysis
Answer : C

29. The disease in which blood clotting does not take place is known as
A. Xerophthalmia
B. Haemopoeisis
C. Haemophilia
D. Haemoerythrin
Answer : C

30. The science dealing with diseases of plants is called
A. Plant anatomy
B. Plant ecology
C. Plant pathology
D. Plant morphology
Answer : C

31. Polyploid wheat does not normally show an increase in
A. size
B. vigour
C. length of the life cycle
D. resistance to desease
Answer : C

32. The 'germ theory of disease' was propounded by
A. Joseph Lister
B. Robert Koch
C. Louis Pasteur
D. Jacob Heule
Answer : C

33. In case of a heart attack a hormone is injected as an emergency measure. Which one is it?
A. Thyroxine
B. Vasopressin
C. Heparin
D. Insulin
Answer : C

34. The closing and opening of the leaves of Mimosa pudica (Touch me not) plant is due to _______ movement.
A. chemonastic
B. seismonastic
C. thermonastic
D. photonastic
Answer : B

35. Plague is caused by
A. Bacteria
B. Virus
C. Fungus
D. Fleas
Answer : A

36. An organism eating its own species is called
A. carnivore
B. detritivore
C. cannibal
D. herbivore
Answer : C

37. The part of the human brain concerned with sight is the
A. Frontal lobe
B. Parietal lobe
C. Temporal lobe
D. Occipital lobe
Answer : D

38. Pearl is secreted by the __________ of the pearl oyster.
A. foot
B. mantle
C. gills
D. None of these
Answer : B

39. Warm-bloodedness
A. means, animals living in warm climates
B. means, the warming up of blood as the temperature increases during day time
C. is characterised by constant body temperature
D. is shown by reptiles
Answer : C

40. Plants grown in darkness show
A. stout stem
B. long internodes
C. bigger leaves
D. no growth at all
Answer : B

41. Coagulation of blood in vessels is prevented during normal circulation by
A. heparin
B. prothrombin
C. plasmogen
D. thromboplastin
Answer : A

42. Man has ____ pairs of salivary glands.
A. 3
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
Answer : A

43. Maintenance of pregency is under the control of
A. Follicular stimulating hormone
B. Growth hormone
C. Estrogen
D. Progesterone
Answer : D

44. Vitamin D deficiency leads to
A. sterility
B. pellagra
C. rickets
D. capillary fragility
Answer : C

45. Which one of the following cells helps in storing water and food materials?
A. Parenchyma cell
B. Flame cell
C. Nematoblast
D. None of the above
Answer : A

46. The biogenetic law was proposed by
A. Alfred Russel Wallace
B. Charles Darwin
C. Ernst von Haeckel
D. Lamarck
Answer : C

47. The thrombocytes are associated with
A. blood coagulation
B. transport of respiratory gases
C. removal of nitrogenous wastes
D. All the above
Answer : A

48. The method of inducing artificial immunity was discovered by
A. Jenner
B. Tolstoy
C. Pasteur
D. Morgan
Answer : A

49. The suggestion that the chromosomes are the carriers of hereditary material was first made by
A. Johanson
B. Flemming
C. Sutton and Boveri
D. Morgan
Answer : C

50. The corn in an underground stem that grows
A. horizontally
B. vertically
C. above the soil
D. obliquely
Answer : B