Free Health and Nutrition MCQs with Answers
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- A. Rickets
- B. Cancer
- C. Amoebiasis
- D. Diabetes
Explanation: Amoebiasis is caused by the intestinal parasite Entamoeba histolytica and spreads through contaminated food or water, making it…
Correct answer: Amoebiasis- A. Blood
- B. Urine
- C. Sputum
- D. Feces
Explanation: Typhoid carriers can continue shedding Salmonella Typhi in their stool, so feces are tested to detect carrier status.
Correct answer: Feces- A. Reduction in Number of Killer T-cells
- B. Reduction in number of helper T-cells
- C. Non Production of Interferons
- D. None of these
Explanation: HIV attacks CD4 helper T-cells, progressively weakening the immune system and leading to AIDS.
Correct answer: Reduction in number of helper T-cells- A. AIDS
- B. Herpes
- C. Syphilis
- D. Diabetes
Explanation: Syphilis is a bacterial sexually transmitted infection caused by Treponema pallidum.
Correct answer: Syphilis- A. Diuresis
- B. Steroids
- C. Insulin
- D. Narcotics
Explanation: Narcotics can produce sedation, calmness and relief from pain, although they also carry a risk of dependence.
Correct answer: Narcotics- A. Typhoid
- B. Diarrhea
- C. Polio
- D. Diabetes
Explanation: TAB vaccine protects against typhoid and paratyphoid fever, diseases caused by Salmonella bacteria.
Correct answer: Typhoid- A. Urine
- B. blood
- C. water
- D. Cells
Explanation: Typhoid bacteria are commonly spread by the fecal-oral route through water or food contaminated with infected waste.
Correct answer: water- A. Bones
- B. Adipose Tissue
- C. Connective Tissue
- D. All of these
Explanation: Sarcoma is a malignant tumour of connective tissue, and bone and adipose tissue are connective-tissue types.
Correct answer: All of these- A. Benign
- B. Malignant
- C. Related to carcinoma
- D. Sample boils
Explanation: Most tumours are benign, meaning they remain localized and do not invade distant tissues.
Correct answer: Benign- A. Transposon
- B. Proto-oncogene
- C. Tumor Promoter gene
- D. Tumor Suppressor gene
Explanation: A proto-oncogene is a normal, inactive gene that can become an oncogene if altered or abnormally activated.
Correct answer: Proto-oncogene- A. HIV
- B. HINI
- C. Herpes zoster
- D. Mumps virus
Explanation: Swine flu is caused by the H1N1 strain of influenza A virus. Option b appears as “HINI,” but it is evidently intended to mean H1N1.
Correct answer: HINI- A. 1st
- B. 2nd
- C. 3rd
- D. 4th
Explanation: Typhoid intestinal haemorrhage most commonly occurs during the third week, when ulceration of the Peyer’s patches in the intestine may…
Correct answer: 3rd- A. Vitamin A
- B. Vitamin K
- C. Vitamin B
- D. Vitamin E
Explanation: Vitamin K is needed to produce several blood-clotting factors, so its deficiency can cause excessive bleeding.
Correct answer: Vitamin K- A. Streptococcus
- B. salmonella
- C. Staphylococcus
- D. Mycobacterium
Explanation: Typhoid fever is caused mainly by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, commonly called Salmonella typhi.
Correct answer: salmonella- A. 81.10c
- B. 36.9c
- C. 98.6C
- D. 21.7C
Explanation: Normal average body temperature is about 36.9°C. The familiar value 98.6 is also normal, but it is expressed in Fahrenheit, not Celsius as…
Correct answer: 36.9c- A. AIDS Virus
- B. Defective Liver
- C. Defective Thymus
- D. Weak Immune System
Explanation: AIDS is an acquired immune-deficiency syndrome caused by HIV, which attacks important immune cells.
Correct answer: AIDS Virus- A. Mosquito Bite
- B. Contaminated food and water
- C. honey Bee
- D. Sand Fly
Explanation: Ascaris infection spreads by the faecal-oral route when food or water is contaminated with eggs of the roundworm.
Correct answer: Contaminated food and water- A. Vitamin B1
- B. Vitamin B2
- C. Vitamin K
- D. Vitamin C
Explanation: Vitamin K is needed to produce several clotting factors in the liver, so deficiency can cause excessive bleeding.
Correct answer: Vitamin K- A. Lungs
- B. Heart
- C. Skin
- D. Blood
Explanation: Leukemia is a cancer of the blood-forming tissues, especially the bone marrow, causing abnormal production of white blood cells.
Correct answer: Blood- A. Sugar
- B. Insulin
- C. Vitamins
- D. Calcium
Explanation: Insulin helps body cells absorb glucose from the blood, so insufficient insulin causes blood glucose to rise in diabetes.
Correct answer: Insulin