Biology MCQs

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Spiders use their silk to make web. Spider silk is made out of protein. 

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Pink eye or Conjunctivitis is an irritation or inflammation of the conjunctiva, which covers the white part of the eyeball. It can be caused by allergies or a bacterial or viral infection.

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Gymnosperms are called so because they have naked ovules / seeds. In terms of plant evolution, they are first seed-bearing plants. They are inferior to Angiosperms because in Angiosperms, the ovules are covered.

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Myosins refers to a superfamily of motor proteins known for their roles in muscle contraction and other motility processes in eukaryotes. These proteins are basically specialized motor machines that convert the cellular free energy to mechanical work. They depend on ATPs for actin based motility.

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Earthworm contributes to the replenishment of soil. As the earthworm moves through the soil, it creates burrows. This allows air and water to move more readily through the soil. The worms also feed on the decaying organic matter, which helps to improve soil fertility.

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The Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria is neither a virus nor a bacterium – it is a single-celled parasite that multiplies in red blood cells of humans as well as in the mosquito intestine. When the female mosquito feeds on an infected person, male and female forms of the parasite are ingested from human blood.

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First statement is incorrect because secretion of hormones is absent in large intestine. Small intestine secretes hormones. Other three statements are correct.

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An endoscopy is used in medicine to look for the ulcers in the stomach. The endoscopy procedure uses an endoscope to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body. Unlike many other medical imaging techniques, endoscopes are inserted directly into the organ.

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• If you are colorblind, you have difficulty distinguishing certain colors, such as blue and yellow or red and green. Color blindness is an inherited condition that affects males more frequently than females
• Hemophilia A and hemophilia B are inherited in an X-linked recessive pattern. The genes associated with these conditions are located on the X chromosome, which is one of the two sex chromosomes. In females (who have two X chromosomes), a mutation would have to occur in both copies of the gene to cause the disorder.
• Sickle cell anemia is inherited as an autosomal recessive condition. This means that the gene can be passed on from a parent carrying it to male and female children.

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Edaphology is one of the two branches of soil sciences which deals with the scientific study of influence of soils on the vegetative matter such as plants.