371. Pancreas’ functions as an:
1. Endocrine gland
2. Exocrine gland1. Only 1
2. Only 2
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Neither 1 nor 2
Option “3” is correct Pancreas and gonads are mixed glands i.e. they are both endocrine and exocrine.
372. Founder of Homeopathy is –
1. Samuel Hahnemann
2. Hippocrates
3. Charaka
4. Sushrutha
Option “1” is correct Homeopathy is a system of alternative medicine originated in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his doctrine of similia similibus curentur (“like cures like”), according to which a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure that disease in sick people.
373. Five Kingdom classification was given by-
1. Whittaker
2. Heackel
3. Linneus
4. Copeland
Option “1” is correct Robert Whittaker was the first to propose the five-kingdom taxonomic classification of the world’s biota into the Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Monera in 1969.
374. Branch of biology deals with extinct organisms-
Option “3” is correct Branch of biology deals with extinct organisms is Palaeontology.
375. The vitamin which is generally excreted by humans in urine is-
1. Vitamin A
2. Vitamin D
3. Vitamin C
4. Vitamin E
Option “3” is correct The vitamin which is generally excreted by humans in urine is Vitamin C.
376. Which of the following disease is non-communicable in nature?
1. Cholera
2. Chicken-pox
3. Tuberculosis
4. Cancer
Option “4” is correct A disease in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue is called Cancer. It is a non-communicable disease.
377. Aurelia (Medusa) and Adamsia (Polyp) are examples of which Phylum?
Option “3” is correct Coelenterata is an obsolete term encompassing the animal phyla Cnidaria (coral animals, true jellies, sea anemones, sea pens, and their allies) and Ctenophora (comb jellies). Aurelia(Medusa) and Adamsia(Polyp) are examples of Coelenterata.
378. Based on the common features like presence of notochord and dorsal hollow neural system, animals like fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds along with mammals are included in which Phylum?
1. Mammalia
2. Chordata
3. Primata
4. Insecta
Option “2” is correct A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; they possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle. It includes fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
379. Thalassemia is a hereditary disease. It affects –
1. Blood
2. Spleen
3. Lungs
4. Heart
Option “1” is correct Thalassemia are forms of inherited autosomal recessive blood disorders that originated in the Mediterranean region. In thalassemia, the disease is caused by the weakening and destruction of red blood cells.
380. A blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart is called-
1. A vein
2. An artery
3. A capilliary
4. Nerve
Option “2” is correct
Blood vessel which carries blood (oxygenated) away from the heart, except pulmonary artery are called artery and blood vessel which carry blood (deoxygenated) towards heart except pulmonary vein are called veins.
