Biology

Pregnancy and Childbirth

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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

Pregnancy per alium means

  1. pre-marriage pregnancy

  2. pre-marriage unchastity

  3. post-marriage unchastity

  4. Both (1) and (2)

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Per alium is a Latin word which means "by another". It means pregnancy of a woman at the time of her marriage by someone other than her husband. If the husband was unaware of the true facts of pregnancy, then the marriage is voidable.

Multiple choice

Which type of placenta is seen in humans?

  1. Diffuse placenta

  2. Intermediate placenta

  3. Zonary placenta

  4. Cotyledonary placenta

  5. Metadiscoidal placenta
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Metadiscoidal placenta – The placenta in which the villi are initially distributed uniformly all over the surface but later on get confined to a disc – like area fitting into corresponding depression on the uterine wall, for example  humans and apes.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is the correct reason of facial nerve injury during forceps delivery in labour?

  1. When the mastoid process is absent at birth.

  2. When the parotid gland is in developing stage.

  3. When the beak of the forceps engages the main trunk of facial nerve.

  4. When the sublingual hematoma during delivery causes neuropraxia.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

New born facial paralysis is estimated to have an incidence of about 0.23% of live births. The most common cause is birth trauma (80%).This is due to difficult delivery with/ without forceps and leads to facial swelling, bruising over the mastoid, bruising over extratemporal course of the nerve and hemotympanum, causing compression over facial nerve, which can lead to facial paralysis. Therefore early decompression of the treatment of choice in traumatic nerve injury.  

Multiple choice

Consider the following statements: (a) The main blood vessel from placenta enter the foetus through a thick cord called umbilical cord. (b) Menstruation is also called weeping of uterus for the lost ovum. (c) Labia minora fuses posteriorly to form a membranous fold called fourchette. Which of the above statements is / are incorrect?

  1. Only (b) and (c)

  2. Only (a) and (b)

  3. Only (a) and (c)

  4. All of the above

  5. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Statement (a) is correct. The main blood vessel from placenta enter the foetus through a thick cord called umbilical cord. Statement (b) is correct. Menstruation is also called weeping of uterus for the lost ovum. Statement (c) is correct. Labia minora fuses posteriorly to form a membranous fold called fourchette. All the three statements are correct.

Multiple choice

Fill blank (iv).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The maternal bond is typically the relationship _____(i)_____ a mother and her child. While it typically occurs _____(ii)_____ pregnancy and childbirth, the maternal bond may also occur between a woman and an unrelated child, such as in adoption. There are hundreds of factors, physical and emotional, _____(iii)_____ influence the mother-infant bonding process. Lots of new mothers do not always experience the "instantly-in-mother-love" emotions. Bonding is a gradually unfolding experience that can take hours, days, weeks or months to evolve. Many believe that early bonding ideally increases response and sensitivity _____(iv)_____ the child's needs, bolstering the quality of the mother-baby relationship.

  1. to

  2. in

  3. for

  4. about
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence is about a response or reaction; so ‘to’ is best suited.

Multiple choice

Fill blank (iii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The maternal bond is typically the relationship _____(i)_____ a mother and her child. While it typically occurs _____(ii)_____ pregnancy and childbirth, the maternal bond may also occur between a woman and an unrelated child, such as in adoption. There are hundreds of factors, physical and emotional, _____(iii)_____ influence the mother-infant bonding process. Lots of new mothers do not always experience the "instantly-in-mother-love" emotions. Bonding is a gradually unfolding experience that can take hours, days, weeks or months to evolve. Many believe that early bonding ideally increases response and sensitivity _____(iv)_____ the child's needs, bolstering the quality of the mother-baby relationship.

  1. who

  2. which

  3. whose

  4. that
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The reference is to non-living things; so we use ‘which’. Note the comma before the blank; so ‘that’ is ruled out.

Multiple choice

Fill blank (i).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The maternal bond is typically the relationship _____(i)_____ a mother and her child. While it typically occurs _____(ii)_____ pregnancy and childbirth, the maternal bond may also occur between a woman and an unrelated child, such as in adoption. There are hundreds of factors, physical and emotional, _____(iii)_____ influence the mother-infant bonding process. Lots of new mothers do not always experience the "instantly-in-mother-love" emotions. Bonding is a gradually unfolding experience that can take hours, days, weeks or months to evolve. Many believe that early bonding ideally increases response and sensitivity _____(iv)_____ the child's needs, bolstering the quality of the mother-baby relationship.

  1. in

  2. among

  3. between

  4. of
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

When we talk about comparisons in two people or things, we use ‘between’.

Multiple choice

Fill blank (ii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The maternal bond is typically the relationship _____(i)_____ a mother and her child. While it typically occurs _____(ii)_____ pregnancy and childbirth, the maternal bond may also occur between a woman and an unrelated child, such as in adoption. There are hundreds of factors, physical and emotional, _____(iii)_____ influence the mother-infant bonding process. Lots of new mothers do not always experience the "instantly-in-mother-love" emotions. Bonding is a gradually unfolding experience that can take hours, days, weeks or months to evolve. Many believe that early bonding ideally increases response and sensitivity _____(iv)_____ the child's needs, bolstering the quality of the mother-baby relationship.

  1. since

  2. in order to

  3. owing to

  4. in response to
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence explains the stimuli that lead to the bond.

Multiple choice

Expand the term MTP.

  1. Medical treatment of patient

  2. Medical termination of pregnancy

  3. Medical treatment of pregnancy

  4. Method of treatment of pregnancy

  5. Method of termination of pregnancy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

It is the correct full form of MTP.