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SULOCHANA MANGARAJ
BIOMOLECULES
15. The deficiency of which vitamin causes creatinuria:
1. Sunshine vitamin is:
a) Vitamin A
b) Vitamin B complex
c) Vitamin D
d) Vitamin K
a) Vitanin A
c) Gliadine
16. Spermatozoa in seminal fluid utilizes the following sugar
for its metabolism:
a) Maltose
b) Arabinose
2. The hormone that controls blood calcium level is:
a) Parathormone
b) Insulin
c) Glucagon
d) ACTH
c) Fructose
a) Retinol
b) Biotin
c) Tocopherol
d) Thiamine
a) Calcitriol
c) Tocopherol
a) Nucleotide
b) Purine base
c) Pyrimidine base
d) Nucleoside
19. Albinism is caused due to the deficiency of enzyme:
a) Hydroxilase
b) Tyrosinase
5. The vitamin that contains cobalt is:
c) Cellulase
b) Vitamin-K
d) Zymases
20. The protein that lacks in rice is:
d) Vitamin B12
a) Tryptophan
c) Lysine
6. Glucose does not react with:
a) NaHSO 3
b) NH 2OH
c) HCN
d) C6H5NHNH2
a) Blood
b) Eggs
c) Keratin
d) Both a & b
b) Threonine
d) None of these
21. Gamma globulins are present in:
a) RBC
b) WBC
c) Blood plasma
d) Platelets
7. Globular proteins are present in:
22. Cellulose is soluble in:
a) Ammoniacal cupric hydroxide solution
b) Organic solvents
c) Water
8. Antibodies are:
a) Lipids
b) Carbohydrate
c) Proteins
d) Enzymes
a) 3
b) 4
c) 1
d) 2
b) Sucrose
c) Glucose
d) Galactose
a) Insulin
c) Epinephrine
b) Lysine
c) Valine
d) Glycine
c) Duplication
12. Glucose on reduction with sodium amalgam yields:
a) Glucose penta acetate
b) Sorbitol
c) Gluconic acid
d) Acetic acid
b) Galactose
c) Sucrose
d) Mannose
b) Elastin
c) Gliadine
d) Keratin
1. c
2. a
3. c
4. d
5. d
6. a
7. d
8. c
9. a
10. c
11. d
12. b
13. b
14. d
15. c
16. c
17. a
18. c
19. b
20. d
21. c
22. a
23. b
24. d
25. a
14. The protein present in hair is:
a) Prolamine
d) Dislocation
ANSWERS
13. Mucic acid is produced by oxidation of:
a) Glucose
b) Cortisol
d) Vasopressin
25. An alteration in the base sequence of nucleic acid
molecule is:
a) Mutation
b) Replication
11. Which is not an essential amino acid:
a) Phenyl alanine
b) Gastrin
d) None of these
24. Which of the following hormones is involved in increased
reabsorption of water from renal tubular epithelial cells:
10. Grape sugar is:
a) Maltose
d) Both a & b
23. CCK belongs to which family:
a) Secretin
c) Both a & b
9. The number of disulphide linkages present in Insulin are:
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b) Calciferol
d) Retinol
18. Keratin belongs to which category:
a) Histones
b) Globulins
c) Albuminoids
d) None of these
4. Adenosine is an example of:
c) Vitamin-K
d) Sucrose
17. The biologically active form of Vitamin D is called:
3. Vitamin E contains:
a) Vitamin-A
b) Vitamin C
d) Keratin
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K. VENKATARAMAN
PALAEONTOLOGY
1. Study of the origin, history and structure of earth
a) Geology
b) Paleontology
c) Archaeology
d) Geography
16. Extinct marine arthropod fossil
a) Ammonites
b) Nautilus
2. The age of earth
a) 585 Billion yrs
c) 6800 Billion yrs
17. Solid mineral deposit that filled a mold leaving a copy of
c) Belemnites
b) 4570 Billion yrs
d) 8450 Billion yrs
the living thing
a) Imprint
c) Petrified fossil
3. The largest interval of geologic time
a) Era
b) Eon
c) Period
d) Epoch
c) Ichthyosauria
a) Cotylosaurs
c) Lepidosaurs
21. Human civilization took place during this epoch
a) Pliocene
b) Pliestocene
7. First known vertebrate fossil of Ordovician period
a) Cyclostomes
b) Ostracoderms
c) Dipnoi
d) Placoderms
c) Holocene
d) Miocene
22. Which one of the following is in order?
b) Anthropology
d) Anthology
9. Which one of these elements is used in calculating the
age of earth?
a) Uranium
b) Potassium
c) Carbon
d) All the above
10. This period is referred to as the Age of Fishes
a) Silurian
b) Devonian
c) Cambrian
d) Ordovician
a) Era , Period, Epoch , Eon
b) Eon , era , Epoch , period
c) Eon , Era , period , Epoch
d) Period , era , Eon , Epoch
23. Which fossil has recently replaced Archaeopteryx from the
basal bird?
a) Xiaotingia
c) Archiornis
b) Pterosaurs
d) Epidexipter yx
24. Which one is a bird like Dinosaur?
a) Pterosaur
b) Brontosaur
b) Mesozoic
d) Permian
c) Pelicosaur
d) Dimetrodon
25. Archaeopteryx lithographica fossil was found in
a) Bavaria
c) Nigeria
b) Fishes
d) All the above
13. Period that is referred to as the age of man
a) Quaternar y
b) Pleistocene
c) Coenozoic
d) All the above
b) Zambia
d) Madagascar
ANSWERS
1. a
9. d
17. b
25. a
14. Carboniferous period is divided into
a) Devonian & Permian
b) Mississippian & Pennysilvanian
c) Permian & Silurian
d) Silurian &Devonian
15. Example of living fossil
a) Coelacanth
c) Nautilus
b) Ichthyosaurs
d) Plesiosaurs
20. Which one of the following is a modern horse?
a) Eohippus
b) Equus
c) Parahippus
d) Meiohippus
6. The age of Trilobites is also known as
a) Cambrian
b) Ordovician
c) Silurian
d) Devonian
12. Palaeozoic era is the age of
a) Invertebrates
c) Amphibia
d) Lepidosauria
19. Stem reptiles are
5. Eons are further divided into the following
a) Epoch
b) Eras
c) Periods
d) Archean
11. Golden age of Reptiles
a) Palaeozoic
c) Coenozoic
b) Cast
d) All the above
18. Name the connecting link between Amphibia and Reptilia
a) Archaeopter yx
b) Seymouria
4. The geological time scale was proposed by
a) James Hutton
b) William Smith
c) Arthur Holmes
d) George Cuvier
8. Study of fossils
a) Paleontology
c) Archaeology
d) Trilobites
2. b
10. b
18. b
3. b
11. b
19. a
4. C
12. d
20. b
5. b
13. d
21. C
6. a
14. b
22. C
7. b
15. d
23. a
8. a
16. d
24. a
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b) Horse shoe crab
d) All the above
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