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Genetics covering chromosomal abnormalities, genetic disorders, mutations, sex determination, cancer biology, and infectious diseases

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Webbed neck is a characteristic of which of the following syndromes?

  1. Patau's syndrome
  2. Klinfelter's syndrome
  3. Down's syndrome
  4. Turner's syndrome
  5. Edwards syndrome
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A pregnant woman, who has done amniocentesis test, finds an extra barr body in her embryo. The syndrome that is associated with the embryo is

  1. Patau's syndrome
  2. Klinfelter's syndrome
  3. Down's syndrome
  4. Edward syndrome
  5. Turner's syndrome
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which condition is caused by mutations that involve entire chromosome rather than a single gene?

  1. Haemophilia
  2. Phenylketonuria
  3. Down's syndrome
  4. Sickle cell anemia
  5. Thalassemia
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the causative agent of mad cow disease?

  1. Virus
  2. Viroid
  3. Prion
  4. Bacteria
  5. Virion
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Hansen's disease is another name of which of the following?

  1. Leprosy
  2. Tuberculosis
  3. Malaria
  4. Typhoid
  5. Hepatitis
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What causes the abnormal growth of the tumor in cancer?

  1. Abnormal mitotic division
  2. Accumulation of body fluid
  3. Abnormal meiotic division
  4. Metastasis
  5. Extra sensitivity to antigrowth signals
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The person which does not involve any change in number of sex chromosome of an organism has

  1. Down's syndrome
  2. Turner's syndrome
  3. Super male
  4. Super female
  5. XXXY syndrome
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following diseases is an extra X chromosome present?

  1. Down's syndrome
  2. Turner's syndrome
  3. Klinfelter's syndrome
  4. Bleeder's disease
  5. Phenylketonuria
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Philadelphia chromosome is found in the patient suffering from __________.

  1. insomnia
  2. hepatitis
  3. albinism
  4. myelogenous leukaemia
  5. haemolytic anaemia
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following conditions though harmful in itself, is a potential saviour from all mosquito borne infectious disease like malaria?

  1. Pernicious anaemia
  2. Hemolytic anaemia
  3. Leukemia
  4. Thalassemia
  5. Sickle cell anaemia
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a cancer?

  1. Sarcoma
  2. Carcinoma
  3. Leukaemia
  4. Melanoma
  5. Glaucoma
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Cancer cells are more easily damaged by radiation than normal cells because _____________.

  1. in these cells mutation is absent
  2. they undergo rapid division
  3. of difference in structures
  4. non-dividing status occurs
  5. they undergo abnormal meiotic division
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is metastasis?

  1. It is preneoplastic stage of cancer.
  2. Here transformation of protooncogenes occurs into oncogenes.
  3. It is the invasion of cancerous cells to surrounding tissues.
  4. It is a form of cancer that is induced by radiations only.
  5. It is a specific cancer associated with mesenchyma.
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

44 + X in a person shows which syndrome?

  1. Patau's syndrome
  2. Turner's syndrome
  3. Edward's syndrome
  4. Down's syndrome
  5. Klinfelter's syndrome
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Cancer caused in lungs, kidneys and stomach is called ____________.

  1. sarcoma
  2. leukemia
  3. carcinoma
  4. glaucoma
  5. lymphoma
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