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Science terminology forms the foundation of understanding various biological and physical disciplines. This practice hub features questions on the specific study fields, names of scientific branches, and essential definitions. These questions frequently appear in general science sections of competitive exams.

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Biology and Science Terminology Questions

Multiple choice zoology our health introduction to health and disease health and its failure health and its significance

Diagnosis and treatment of mental illness belongs to science of

  1. Psychiatry

  2. Psychology

  3. Medical transcription

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

  • Psychiatry is the medical speciality devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions.
  • Psychology is the science of behaviour and mind Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.
  • Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession dealing with the process of transcribing voice-recorded medical reports that are dictated by physicians, nurses and other healthcare practitioners
  • Pathology is the study of disease. It is the bridge between science and medicine.

So, the correct answer is 'Psychiatry'.

Multiple choice zoology our health introduction to health and disease health and its failure health and its significance

Branch of science connected with diagnosis, prevention and cure of mental disorders is 

  1. Psychiatry

  2. Psychology

  3. Neurology

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

  • Psychiatry is the medical speciality devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.
  • Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behaviour. Psychology is a multifaceted discipline and includes many sub-fields of study such areas as human development, sports, health, clinical, social behaviour and cognitive processes.
  • Neurology is the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of disorders of the nervous system.
  • Neuropsychiatry is a branch of medicine that deals with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system. It preceded the current disciplines of psychiatry and neurology, which had common training, however, psychiatry and neurology have subsequently split apart and are typically practised separately.

So, the correct answer is 'Psychiatry'.

Multiple choice biology living and non living keeping diseases at bay microorganism: types and habitat the world of microorganisms: part 1

Microbiology is

  1. Study of bacteria

  2. Study of virus

  3. Study of fungi

  4. Study of microbes
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The microorganisms are the microscopic bodies which cannot be observed directly with the naked eye. The study which deals with all the properties of the microbes is known as microbiology. This field includes the type of microbes, their structures, their characteristics, their interactions, etc. There are different fields which deal specifically with one type of microbe like virology, bacteriology, mycology, etc. 

Thus, the correct answer is option D. 

Multiple choice evs weather, climate and adaptation of animals to different climates climate and weather weather, climate and adaptations of animals to climate atmosphere and its components

Meteorology is considered a branch of:

  1. Mineralogical sciences

  2. Phenology

  3. Phrenology

  4. Atmospheric sciences
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere, focusing on weather processes and forecasting. It is a sub-discipline of the atmospheric sciences.

Multiple choice evs - i infectious diseases and how to prevent them energy and health infectious diseases - transmission and prevention credit communicable diseases pathogen and their mode of transmission

Select the incorrect statement.

  1. Disease literally means distributed ease.

  2. The phenomenon of growth, multiplication and establishment of an infections agent in host cells is known as infection.

  3. The parasite which causes the disease in an individual is called as host.

  4. Epidemology is the science that deals with occurrence, distribution and control of a disease.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Pathogen is an infectious agent such as a virus, bacterium, prion, fungus, viriod or parasite that causes disease in its host. The host may be an animal, a plant, a fungus, or even another microorganism.

Therefore, the correct answer is option C.

Multiple choice botany environmental factors soil-nature climate factors abiotic components

Edaphology is the relationship between

  1. Plant and biosphere

  2. Animal and ecosystem

  3. Soil and living organisms

  4. Soil and biosphere
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Edaphology is the branch of soil science that studies the influence of soil on living organisms, particularly plants. It focuses on how soil properties affect biological systems and how organisms interact with the soil environment.

Multiple choice zoology production of food from animals animal breeding animal husbandry and its importance introduction to animal husbandry

The science of rearing, feeding, care, breeding and utilization of animals is called as

  1. Dairy science

  2. Veterinary science

  3. Animal husbandry

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

The branch of science dealing with the study of various breeds of domesticated animals and their management for obtaining better products from them is known as animal husbandry. The term husbandry derives from the word husband which means one who takes care. When it incorporates the study of the proper utilization of economically important domestic animals, it is called as livestock management.

Multiple choice population and how it changes human population ecology and environment zoology

Study of ecology of population is called as

  1. Autecology

  2. Synecology

  3. Ecosystem

  4. Demecology
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
Autecology is the study of the interactions of an individual organism or a single species with the living and nonliving factors of its environment. 
Synecology is the branch of science that deals with the natural community and its environment.
An ecosystem is a community of living organisms where the biotic and abiotic components interact with each other.
Demecology is that branch of biology which deals with the ecology of populations
Therefore, the correct answer is option D

Multiple choice economics introduction to statistical method and econometrics introduction to statistics partition values frequency distribution tables and graphs

A branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data is called ______.

  1. mensuration

  2. statistics

  3. set theory

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

A branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data is called statistics.

Multiple choice biology main natural resources classification of threatened species red data book conservation of wildlife

What is the science of extinction called?

  1. Dirology

  2. Virology

  3. Pedalogy

  4. Mycology
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
  • The science of extinction is called dirology. An endangered species is defined as a population of a living species that is in danger of becoming extinct because of several reasons.
  • Some of the reasons can be the species have a very low population or they are threatened by the varying environmental or prepositional parameters.

    Therefore, the correct answer is option A.