MCQ’S ON GOUT
1. Pharmacologic therapy can be initiated after how long, once the acute gout attack has taken place?
(a) after 48 hours
(b) within 1 hour
(c) within 24 hours
(d) after 24 hours
Answer: (c)
2. The accumulation of this substance in the body causes gout.
(a) Blood plasma
(b) WBC
(c) Uric acid
(d) Synovial fluid
Answer: (c)
3. Which of the following is a symptom of gout?
(a) Purple or red skin
(b) Severe pain, warmth and swelling in joints
(c) Itching skin, peeling at the site of a gout attack
(d) All of these
Answer: (d)
4. Gout attack commonly occurs at this ________site.
(a) Knee
(b) Foot
(c) Ankle
(d) Big toe
Answer: (d)
5. ________is recommended for considering as first-line therapy for gout.
(a) Probenecid
(b) Allopurinol
(c) Febuxostat
(d) Benzbromarone
Answer: (b)
6. Gout is known as the “diseases of kings” because _______.
(a) It was diagnosed by a king’s doctor
(b) It is hereditary
(c) Of its association with rich food
(d) Gout is not the “diseases of kings”
Answer: (c)
7. Which of the following factors increasing the cause of developing gout?
(a) A diet having a high salt content
(b) Genetics – family history
(c) Asthma
(d) All of these
Answer: (b)
8. It is recommended to avoid __________ for people with gout
(a) dairy products
(b) alcohol
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above
Answer: (b)
9. Generally, uric acid is eliminated from the body through
(a) Sweat
(b) Breathing
(c) Urine
(d) Metabolization of liver
Answer: (c)
10. This is not a first-line option for pharmacological treatment of gout
(a) Corticosteroids
(b) Aspirin
(c) Oral colchicine
(d) NSAIDS
Answer: (b)
MCQ’S ON DIFFUSION
1. Phenomena through which water is absorbed by solids such as colloids leading them to increase in volume is
(a) diffusion
(b) imbibition
(c) facilitated diffusion
(d) osmosis
Answer: (b)
2. In older dying leaves to younger leaves, the mineral ions are assimilated into
(a) deposition of organic and inorganic compounds
(b) organic compound
(c) inorganic compounds
(d) none of these
Answer: (b)
3. Passage of water across a selectively permeable membrane is
(a) osmosis
(b) active transport
(c) facilitated diffusion
(d) pinocytosis
Answer: (a)
4. Wall pressure will______________ with rise in turgidity
(a) increase
(b) decrease
(c) remain unaffected
(d) fluctuate
Answer: (a)
5. Most effective light for stomatal opening is
(a) Red
(b) Blue
(c) Green
(d) Yellow
Answer: (b)
6. Diffusion of water through selectively permeable membrane is
(a) osmosis
(b) imbibition
(c) translocation
(d) diffusion
Answer: (a)
7. Water is forcefully pushed beyond endodermis of the root through the process of
(a) diffusion
(b) transmembrane transport
(c) symplast pathway
(d) apoplast pathway
Answer: (b)
8. Transpiration is a phenomenon pertaining to
(a) Activated transport
(b) Diffusion
(c) Osmosis
(d) Facilitated diffusion
Answer: (b)
9. When placed in water, raisins swell up as a result of
(a) Adsorption
(b) Plasmolysis
(c) Endosmosis
(d) Diffusion
Answer: (c)
10. A bottle filled with previously moistened mustard seeds and water was screw-capped tightly and placed in a corner. After 30 minutes, it suddenly blew up. This is the process involved
(a) DPD
(b) Osmosis
(c) Imbibition
(d) Diffusion
Answer: (c)
MCQ’S ON ANIMAL TISSUES
1. In connective tissue sheaths, this is the correct sequence stretching from the outermost to the innermost layer
(a) epineurium, endoneurium, perineurium
(b) perineurium, epineurium, endoneurium
(c) perineurium, endoneurium, epineurium
(d) epineurium, perineurium, endoneurium
Answer: (d)
2. This is the difference between a nerve and a neuron
(a) consists of different number of cells
(b) one has motor and other has sensory function
(c) nerves are made of grey matter while neurons of white matter
(d) nerves are present in central nervous system only
Answer: (a)
3. The only connective tissue without fibroblasts is
(a) areolar connective tissue
(b) bone
(c) cartilage
(d) blood
Answer: (d)
4. In these tissue cells, Lacunae are enclosed
(a) Cartilage
(b) Bone tissue
(c) both (a) and (b)
(d) muscular tissue
Answer: (c)
5. Mast cells are linked to
(a) neural tissue
(b) areolar connective tissue
(c) endocrine glands
(d) exocrine glands
Answer: (b)
6. These are brain macrophages
(a) astrocytes
(b) microglial cells
(c) ependymal cells
(d) oligodendrocytes
Answer: (b)
7. This is not a function of neuroglia
(a) phagocytosis
(b) isolation of neurons
(c) secretion of cerebrospinal fluid
(d) information processing
Answer: (d)
8. This cell is not a type of neuroglia found in CNS
(a) microglia
(b) astrocytes
(c) ependymal cells
(d) Schwann cells
Answer: (d)
9. Categorization of epithelial tissue is based on this
(a) function
(b) type of matrix
(c) structural modification
(d) non voluntary or voluntary action
Answer: (c)
10. This is correct about epithelial tissue
(a) lack of nerve supply
(b) lack of blood supply
(c) lack of free surface
(d) lack of intercellular matrix
Answer: (b)
MCQ’S ON HOMEOSTASIS
1. Liver functions are pivotal to
(a) osmoregulation
(b) thermoregulation
(c) homeostasis
(d) all of these
Answer: (c)
2. During catabolism of amino acids, the release of the amino group is known as
(a) deamination
(b) hydrolysis
(c) ammunition
(d) hydration
Answer: (a)
3. The only treatment in case of uremia is
(a) dialysis
(b) lithotripsy
(c) lung transplant
(d) kidney transplant
Answer: (d)
4. This type of nephron is best to conserve water in body
(a) Juxtamedullary nephrons
(b) cortical nephrons
(c) both (a) and (b)
(d) serotical nephrons
Answer: (a)
5. This is responsible for production of concentrated urine
(a) proximal tubule
(b) cortical nephrons
(c) distal tubule
(d) juxtamedullary nephron
Answer: (d)
6. This nephron segment is not permeable to water even in the presence of ADH
(a) Collecting duct
(b) descending limb of loop of Henle
(c) ascending limb of loop of Henle
(d) both (b) and (c)
Answer: (c)
7. Leaves fall of helping in plant to get rid of accumulated wastes hence known as
(a) ebony
(b) sacrifice
(c) excretophore
(d) helper
Answer: (c)
8. Active uptake of sodium is promoted by action of enzyme known as
(a) adrenatrone
(b) aldosterone
(c) antidiuretic
(d) diuretic
Answer: (b)
9. The vertebral column provides more strength as a result of 4
(a) burantals
(b) appendanges
(c) frontals
(d) curvatures
Answer: (d)
10. Dogs have specialized evaporative cooling in the respiratory tract by
(a) woofing
(b) licking
(c) panting
(d) sleeping
Answer: (c)
11. This statement about Homeostasis is incorrect
(a) because of this, the fluctuations of the internal environment are of extremely narrow range as compared to that of the external environment
(b) there is a definite control system regulating the homeostatic activities
(c) homeostatic mechanisms keep the internal environment fixed despite wide changes in the external environment
(d) all the above
Answer: (c)
