The insect vector for the disease Leishmaniasis is
Tsetse fly
Culex
Phlebotomus
Anopheles
Correct Answer :
C. Phlebotomus
Related Questions
Which element in chillies causes burning sensations?
Capsaicin
Cyanogen
Ammonia
Capsicum
Which among the following is a Cast growing tree?
Teak
Eucalyptus
Banyan
Coconut
The stones formed in human kidney consist mostly of
calcium oxalate
sodium acetate
magnesium
calcium
Which of the following diseases is not caused by a virus?
Cancer
Rabies
AlDS
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Which of the following organelles is known as the 'power House' of the cell?
Golgi Bodies
Ribosomes
Mitochondria
None of these
In one minute normally the heart beats
60 times
80 times
100 times
72 times
The hormone which is Popularly called as stress hormone is
Epinephrine
Cortisone
Thyroxine
Insulin
The first sign of life made its appearance on the earth about
1 million years ago
500 million years ago
1 billion or 1000 million years ago
3 billion years ago
Which among the following cows give maximum milk yields?
Jersey
Holstein
Red Sindhi
Sahiwal
Which among the following is the best source of proteins?
apples
butter
beans
fish
Maize is attacked by
Phytophthora
Pythium
Ustilago
Puccinia
The spores of Puccinia formed on the leaves of wheat are called
Basidiospores
Ascidiospores
Uredospores
Pycnospores
The ultimate substances to which the carbohydrates are degraded are
amino acid
glycerol
glucose
maltose
Biological control is to check growth of
plants
animals
weeds
one pest by another
Louis Pasteur developed the vaccine for ______ for the first time.
smallpox
cowpox
tetanus
chicken cholera
The condition in which there is abnormal decrease of white blood corpuscles is known as
leukaemia
leucoderma
leukopenia
anaemia
The theory that all animals and plants are made up of cells and they could arise only from pre-existing cells was propounded by
Robert Hooke
Matthias Schleiden and Theodore Schwann
Purkinije
Leuwenhoek
What is an antigen?
toxic substance
a kind of protein
blood platelets
blood corpuscles
The hormone that is responsible for secondary sexual character in the male is
oestrogen
progesterone
testosterone
prolactin
Dwarf plants can be made to attain their normal stature by applying
IAA
Ethylene
Gibberelins
Cytokinins
Plants grown in darkness show
stout stem
long internodes
bigger leaves
no growth at all
The disease Goitre is caused in persons who do not have in their diet sufficient
calcium
sodium
iodine
iron
Plant diseases are spread by
insects
man
wind
All the above
The method of inducing artificial immunity was discovered by
Jenner
Tolstoy
Pasteur
Morgan
What is 'atavism'?
The genes which show numerous phenolypic effects
Reappearance of traits after several generations
Effects of mutation
Intermediate inheritance of genes
The plants will stop growing if the shoot tip is cut off because
shoot tip produces growth hormones
shoot tip contains meristematic cells
shoot tip is the growing part
the plant dies
Vestigeal organs are those which are
fully formed and functional
much reduced but functional
much reduced and functionless
fully formed but functionless
The association between leguminous plants and bacteria is
parasitic
saprophytic
symbiotic
None of the above
Appearance of offspring resembling their remote ancestor is called
Atavism
Lethality
Mutation
Progeny
Temperature treatment which shortens the vegetative period and hastens the flowering is called
Phototropism
Photoperiodism
Vernalisation
Thermoregulation