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Biotechnology in health care applies biological organisms, cells or enzymes to diagnose and treat disease. The subject includes recombinant DNA, genetically engineered insulin, vaccines, antibiotics, monoclonal antibodies, gene therapy and techniques such as polymerase chain reaction, while distinguishing therapeutic applications from agricultural and industrial biotechnology.

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  • A. Type 1 diabetes
  • B. Type 2 diabetes
  • C. Both A. & B
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Most diabetic cats develop a type 2-like diabetes associated with insulin resistance and reduced insulin secretion, often linked with…

Correct answer: Type 2 diabetes
  • A. Type 1 diabetes
  • B. Type 2 diabetes
  • C. Both a& b
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Canine diabetes most commonly resembles type 1 diabetes, with destruction or loss of pancreatic beta-cell function causing marked insulin…

Correct answer: Type 1 diabetes
  • A. Tissue culture
  • B. Mutation
  • C. Antibiosis
  • D. Recombination

Explanation: Tissue culture produces new plants from small pieces of tissue or cells under sterile conditions, without using seeds.

Correct answer: Tissue culture
  • A. Bidding of Dermatology
  • B. Binding of Dirt
  • C. Biochemical occupied Date
  • D. Biochemical Oxygen demand

Explanation: BOD means biochemical oxygen demand, the amount of dissolved oxygen microorganisms require to decompose organic matter in water.

Correct answer: Biochemical Oxygen demand
  • A. Plasmodium vivax
  • B. Plasmodium falciparum
  • C. Plasmodium ovale
  • D. Plasmodium malariae

Explanation: Plasmodium vivax causes benign or mild tertian malaria, with fever commonly recurring every 48 hours because the parasite synchronously…

Correct answer: Plasmodium vivax
  • A. Musturd
  • B. Paddy
  • C. Ground nut
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Tikka disease is a fungal disease of groundnut, also called peanut leaf spot, caused mainly by Cercospora species.

Correct answer: Ground nut
  • A. B1
  • B. B2
  • C. B12
  • D. B6

Explanation: Intestinal bacteria can synthesize several B-group vitamins, including vitamin B12, which is also important for red blood cell formation…

Correct answer: B12
  • A. ring worm
  • B. meningitis
  • C. hepatitis
  • D. none of these

Explanation: Meningitis is inflammation of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord, and although bacteria and viruses are common causes…

Correct answer: meningitis
  • A. Robert Hook
  • B. James parkinson
  • C. Dr Barry Marshall and dr Robin Warren
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Barry Marshall and Robin Warren discovered the association between Helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcer disease, showing that many ulcers…

Correct answer: Dr Barry Marshall and dr Robin Warren
  • A. Antiseptics
  • B. Disinfectants
  • C. Antibiotics
  • D. Vaccines

Explanation: Antiseptics are chemicals applied to living tissues, such as skin, to inhibit or kill microorganisms.

Correct answer: Antiseptics
  • A. Louis Pasteur
  • B. Edward Jennar
  • C. Leuvenhoek
  • D. Alexander Fleming

Explanation: Louis Pasteur developed an attenuated vaccine against anthrax and demonstrated its protective effect in livestock.

Correct answer: Louis Pasteur
  • A. 3
  • B. 5
  • C. 4
  • D. 6Standardized & Admissions Tests

Explanation: Koch's germ theory is expressed through four postulates linking a specific microorganism with a specific disease: presence in diseased…

Correct answer: 4
  • A. A specific organism can always be found in association with a given disease
  • B. The organism can be isolated and grown in pure culture in the laboratories
  • C. The pure culture cannot produce the disease when inoculated into susceptible animal however the causative organism isolated from pure culture can do so.
  • D. It is possible to recover the organism in pure culture from the experimentally infected animals

Explanation: Koch's third postulate requires that the isolated organism, when introduced into a healthy susceptible host, reproduce the same disease.

Correct answer: The pure culture cannot produce the disease when inoculated into susceptible animal however the causative organism isolated from pure culture can do so.
  • A. Robert Koch
  • B. Louis Pasteur
  • C. Alexander Fleming
  • D. Leeuwenhoek

Explanation: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first observed microorganisms with his improved microscopes and called them animalcules, meaning tiny animals.

Correct answer: Leeuwenhoek
  • A. True bacteria
  • B. False bacteria
  • C. Recent bacteria
  • D. Ancient bacteria

Explanation: The prefix archae- comes from the Greek word meaning ancient or primitive, so Archaebacteria means ancient bacteria.

Correct answer: Ancient bacteria
  • A. Rhodophyta
  • B. Chlorophyta
  • C. Phaeophyta
  • D. Chrysophyta

Explanation: Chlorophyta, or green algae, contain chlorophyll a and b, store food mainly as starch, and commonly have cellulose-rich cell walls…

Correct answer: Chlorophyta
  • A. Their zygote unlike plants is protected by parental tissue
  • B. Their classification is based on pigment composition
  • C. Most of them have different morphological forms in-different stages of their life cycle
  • D. Almost all of them are aquatic

Explanation: Algal zygotes generally develop outside the parental body and are not protected by parental tissues as plant embryos are, making statement…

Correct answer: Their zygote unlike plants is protected by parental tissue
  • A. Kelps
  • B. Gymnosperms
  • C. Angiosperms
  • D. Algae

Explanation: Algae, especially marine and freshwater phytoplankton, carry out a very large share of Earth's photosynthesis because they are abundant…

Correct answer: Algae
  • A. Radiolarians
  • B. Forams
  • C. Both of these
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Radiolarians have delicate, glass-like skeletons made mainly of silica, giving them a transparent or glassy appearance.

Correct answer: Radiolarians
  • A. Chrysophyta
  • B. Phaeophyta
  • C. Pyrrophyta
  • D. Rhodophyta

Explanation: Rhodophyta are the only major algal group in which flagellated motile cells are absent throughout the life cycle.

Correct answer: Rhodophyta