Home
Current Affairs January 2024

What is the correct answer?

4

The workers in the honey bee colony are

A. males

B. females

C. sterile females

D. intersex

Correct Answer :

C. sterile females


Related Questions

What is the correct answer?

4

The natural defence of our body against foreign germs is formed by

A. red corpuscles

B. white corpuscles

C. platelets

D. lymph

What is the correct answer?

4

Oparin is known for his hypothesis on

A. origin of species

B. origin of life

C. one germ one disease

D. one gene one enzyme

What is the correct answer?

4

Pneumonia is ,a bacterial disease caused by the type of bacteria called

A. Bacilli

B. Cocci

C. Sprilli

D. Vibrio

What is the correct answer?

4

Nucleus was first discovered by

A. Porter

B. Robert Brown

C. Palade

D. None of these

What is the correct answer?

4

In case of a heart attack a hormone is injected as an emergency measure. Which one is it?

A. Thyroxine

B. Adrenaline

C. Heparin

D. Insulin

What is the correct answer?

4

Phonoreceptor refers to the perception of

A. light

B. sound

C. touch

D. smell

What is the correct answer?

4

Which one of the following is caused by the expression of a recessive gene present on sex chromosome?

A. Rheumatism

B. Nervous shock

C. Muscular dystrophy

D. Cerebral haemorrhage

What is the correct answer?

4

The cavities of the brain are filled with

A. Blood

B. Lymph

C. Water

D. Cerebrospinal fluid

What is the correct answer?

4

Those small organisms which float on the surface of water are called

A. Necton

B. pH indicators

C. Plankton

D. Benthos

What is the correct answer?

4

The equilibrium and co-ordination is looked after by which part of the brain?

A. Cerebrum

B. Medulla oblongata

C. Cerebellum

D. Olfactory lobes

What is the correct answer?

4

The function of connective tissue is

A. to hold the other tissues together

B. to facilitate diffusion

C. to help transportation of dissolved material from capillaries to epithelial cells

D. protection

What is the correct answer?

4

Geotropism is reaction of plants to the stimulus of

A. earth

B. light

C. sound

D. gravity

What is the correct answer?

4

Charles Darwin was influenced in his work by

A. Wallace

B. Lamarck

C. Malthus

D. Mendel

What is the correct answer?

4

The drug Ergot is obtained from

A. Alga

B. Fungus

C. Bacteria

D. Virus

What is the correct answer?

4

Savannah is

A. grass land

B. desert

C. forest

D. snow clad mountains

What is the correct answer?

4

Which among the following diseases is not caused by viral infection?

A. pneumonia

B. small pox

C. mumps

D. active transport

What is the correct answer?

4

Scurvy is prevented by vitamin

A. A

B. B

C. C

D. D

What is the correct answer?

4

Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characters was challenged by

A. August Weismann

B. Hugo de Vries

C. Herbert- Spencer

D. Carl Linnaeus

What is the correct answer?

4

Mouth and foot diseases in cattle are caused by

A. Bacteria

B. Virus

C. Fungi

D. Pennicilium

What is the correct answer?

4

A few infections like sore throat, whooping cough and tuberculosis are carried through the respiratory system. Which among the following is caused by bacteria while passing through the respiratory tract?

A. diphtheria

B. dysentery

C. jaundice

D. typhoid

What is the correct answer?

4

The normal temperature of human body on the Kelvin scale is

A. 280

B. 290

C. 300

D. 310

What is the correct answer?

4

An inherited characteristic which does not appear in one generation but can appear in the next is called

A. dominant

B. recessive

C. homozygous

D. heterozygous

What is the correct answer?

4

The 'father of genetics' is

A. Mendel

B. Morgan

C. Darwin

D. Muller

What is the correct answer?

4

Genes are arranged in chromosomes

A. In clusters

B. In binary fashion

C. In linear fashion

D. Scattered

What is the correct answer?

4

Synthesis of nutrients by green plants is called

A. photo-oxidation

B. photo-respiration

C. photo-synthesis

D. photo-periodism

What is the correct answer?

4

The country where commercial production of cultured pearls is undertaken on large scale is

A. India

B. Mexico

C. Netherlands

D. Japan

What is the correct answer?

4

Enzymes are produced by

A. endocrine glands

B. exocrine glands

C. liver

D. spleen

What is the correct answer?

4

The layer of stagnant water in which light penetrates is called

A. Aphotic

B. Euphotic

C. Epilimnion

D. Disphotic

What is the correct answer?

4

Tuberculosis is caused by

A. tobacco

B. tubers

C. bacteria

D. virus

What is the correct answer?

4

Vitamin D deficiency leads to

A. sterility

B. pellagra

C. rickets

D. capillary fragility