Biology

Pregnancy and Childbirth

996 Questions

This hub covers essential biology questions on pregnancy, fetal development, and childbirth. Topics include the placenta, maternal physiology, and the stages of labor. These concepts are frequently tested in general science sections of various competitive examinations.

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Pregnancy and Childbirth Questions

Multiple choice
  1. holoprosencephaly

  2. hepatic cysts and hepatic fibrosis

  3. ureteral agenesis

  4. medullary sponge kidney

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Infantile polycystic kidney disease is autosomal recessive and characterized by bilateral enlarged kidneys with microcysts. The most common associated finding is congenital hepatic fibrosis with cysts, which is part of the same developmental spectrum affecting the renal tubules and bile ducts.

Multiple choice
  1. administer dinoprostone and bed rest

  2. administer mifipristone and bed rest

  3. apply Fothergill's stitch

  4. apply McDonald's stitch

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Cervical insufficiency is diagnosed by painless cervical dilation in the second trimester, often with funnelling. McDonald's stitch (a simple cervical cerclage) is appropriate at 22 weeks. Fothergill's stitch is for later pregnancy stages or prolapse. Mifepristone is for abortion, dinoprostone for induction.

Multiple choice
  1. Uterine rupture

  2. Vaginal laceration

  3. Uterine atony

  4. Cervical laceration

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Internal podalic version in transverse lie is a high-risk maneuver, especially when the uterus is contracted. Uterine rupture is the most serious complication due to the forceful manipulation required to turn the fetus. Other complications include cord prolapse and fetal trauma, but uterine rupture is most dangerous.

Multiple choice
  1. Down's syndrome

  2. Molar pregnancy

  3. Over estimated gestational age

  4. Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Maternal serum AFP is elevated in open fetal neural tube defects, abdominal wall defects, and congenital nephrotic syndrome (due to fetal protein loss). In Down's syndrome, AFP is decreased. Molar pregnancy shows variable patterns but not typically elevation. Overestimated gestational age would show lower levels.

Multiple choice
  1. HSG

  2. hysteroscopy

  3. endometrial culture

  4. saline infusion USG

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Asherman's syndrome (intrauterine adhesions) is diagnosed by visualization: HSG shows filling defects, hysteroscopy is gold standard for direct visualization, and saline infusion USG can show adhesions. Endometrial culture is used for infection diagnosis, not for detecting adhesions or scarring.

Multiple choice
  1. Increased PAPP-A

  2. Increased â-HCG

  3. Absent nasal bone

  4. Increased ductus venous blood flow

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

PAPP-A is DECREASED in Down syndrome, making 'Increased PAPP-A' a false statement. Beta-HCG is increased, nasal bone absence is a key marker, and ductus venosus blood flow is DECREASED (not increased). The question asks which is false, so A is correct.

Multiple choice
  1. Total anomalous pulmonary vein connection

  2. Meconium aspiration syndrome

  3. Neonatal pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

  4. Disseminated HSV infection

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Neonatal pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) presents with respiratory distress and ground-glass appearance unresponsive to surfactant. The family history of a sibling dying with identical symptoms strongly suggests a genetic disorder, and congenital PAP fits this presentation. ECHO rules out cardiac causes, cultures rule out infection.

Multiple choice
  1. No direct interest

  2. Prior interest

  3. Absolute interest

  4. All of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Where, on a transfer of property, an interest therein is created for the benefit of a person not in existence at the date of the transfer, subject to a prior interest created by the same transfer, the interest created for the benefit of such person shall not take effect unless it extends to the whole of the remaining interest of the transferor in the property. 

Multiple choice
  1. Pig

  2. Rabbit

  3. Humans

  4. Cow

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The metadiscoidal placenta is found in humans and some primates. It is characterized by a disc-shaped structure with the villi arranged in a unique pattern. Other placental types include diffuse (pig, horse), cotyledonary (cow, sheep), and zonary (carnivores like dogs and cats).

Multiple choice
  1. Reproduction which involves only one parent giving rise to offspring

  2. The process of passing traits from parent to offspring

  3. The process of delivering a baby by mother at the end of gestation period

  4. Movement of sperms with the help of their tail and random fertilisation of eggs

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

It is the process of delivering a baby by mother at the end of gestation period.

Multiple choice
  1. Maternal IgG is placentally transferred from 32 to 40 weeks of gestation.

  2. IgM is the first Ig to be made in the fetus.

  3. Much of the maternal IgG is catabolized in a normal infant by 12-24 weeks of life.

  4. Breast milk IgA is absorbed by the infant's small intestine for up to 6 months of life.

  5. Membrane-bound immunoglobulins are associated with two accessory peptides.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Human infants do not absorb oral IgA from colostrum or milk, unlike lamb.

Multiple choice
  1. Bacitracin

  2. Enoxacin

  3. Oxytocin

  4. Mifepristone

  5. Doxorubicin

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Oxytocin is a mammalian neurohypophysical hormone. It is produced by the hypothalamus and stored and secreted by the posterior pituitary gland. Oxytocin acts primarily as a neuromodulator in the brain. Oxytocin plays an important role in the neuroanatomy of intimacy, specifically in sexual reproduction, particularly during and after childbirth. It is released in large amounts after distension of the cervix and uterus during labor, facilitating birth, maternal bonding and after stimulation of the nipples, lactation. Both childbirth and milk ejection results from positive feedback mechanism.