Antisnake venom is prepared by
Pasteur institute
Hoffkine's institute
Birla's institute
Indian Science Institute
Correct Answer :
B. Hoffkine's institute
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Fibrinogen
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Glucose
Blood cells
Excess of amino-acids are broken down to form urea in the
Liver
Kidney
Spleen
Rectum
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Apomixis
Pleiotropy
Polyploidy
Polyteny
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10
20
30
Plenty
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William Seifriz
Schwann
Palade
None of the above
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Monocuspid
Semilunar
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Apoptosis
Ageing
Degeneration
Necrosis
The drug Ergot is obtained from
Alga
Fungus
Bacteria
Virus
Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characters was challenged by
August Weismann
Hugo de Vries
Herbert- Spencer
Carl Linnaeus
Niche' refers to
place of living
type of food
place of living and type of food
food and movement
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hyaline cartilage
calcified cartilage
elastic cartilage
fibrous cartilage
The wall of the heart is made of programmed cell death is known as
voluntary muscles
involuntary muscles
cardiac muscles
skeletal muscles
Diabetes is a disease which is
contagious
non-communicable
communicable
epidemic
Two tall plants, each being a hybrid and carrying a recessive factor for dwarfness are crossed. What proportion of their offspring will be dwarf?
0.5
0.25
0.75
1
Colour vision is made possible by the cells in the retina called
rods
cones
fovea
blind spot
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growth
immunity
repair
energy
Diabetes is caused by
fall in insulin level
increase in insulin level
eating too much sugar
decrease in glucose
What do you mean by lentic biota?
Plants and animals in lakes and ponds
Plants and animals in forest
Plants and animals in sea water
Desert plants and animals
Vitamins A and C are predominantly present in
brinjal
lady's finger
potato
tomato
Name the nematode which lives in lymph vessels of man.
Ascaris
Hook worm
Filarial worm
Guinea worm
The equilibrium and co-ordination is looked after by which part of the brain?
Cerebrum
Medulla oblongata
Cerebellum
Olfactory lobes
Who coined the term gene?
Mendel
Devries
Jacob and Monod
Johanson
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striated and involuntary
striated and voluntary
smooth and involuntary
smooth and voluntary
Cancer is induced by certain viruses called
poxviruses
adenoviruses
oncogenic viruses
herpesviruses
The enzyme that is necessary to bring about clotting of blood is
peptidase
amylase
lipase
thrombokinase
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during storage
within the fruit
with cotyledons coming out of soil
with cotyledons remaining inside the soil
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always present
present during day
always absent
present during night
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plant kingdom
animal kingdom
neither
Both
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herbivorous
vegetarian
carnivorous
omnivorous
Edward Jenner to find out the efficacy of vaccination used
his own body
his friend's body
a corpse
a laboratory animal