Why Do We Fall Ill

Name of the biologist who established that pathogen is a disease agent.
1. Robert Koch
2. Robert Brown
3. Rudolf Virchow
4. Edward Jenner
Find the incorrect statement:
1. A vegetarian diet is far better than a non-vegetarian diet
2. Germinated pulses contain more vitamins
3. Fast food should always be preferred to a balanced diet
4. Proteins give more energy than that given by fats or carbohydrates
Iodine test is used to detect:
1. Malaria
2. Typhoid
3. Fats
4. Carbohydrate
Name the vitamin abundantly present in citrus fruit:
1. Vitamin C
2. Vitamin K
3. Vitamin B
4. Vitamin A
In which of the following case, do you think the long term effects on your health are likely to be most unpleasant?
1. If you get jaundice
2. If you get acne
3. If you get lice
4. All of these
Which of the following is/are a chronic disease(s)?
1. Diabetes
2. Cold
3. Asthma
4. Both Asthma and Diabetes
Which parameters to health are difficult to measure?
1. Physical health
2. Social well-being
3. Mental health
4. Both Physical health and mental health
To which of the following family, do folic acid and pentothenic acid belong?
1. Vitamin B complex
2. Vitamin C
3. Vitamin A
4. Vitamin K
Mottling of teeth occurs due to presence of which element in drinking water?
1. Boron
2. Mercury
3. Fluorine
4. Chlorine
Lipids in the diet:
1. Make the food less tasty
2. Increase the bulk
3. Are always dangerous
4. Enable the absorption of some vitamins
Antibiotics are ineffective against the viral infections. For each type of the viral infection, human body produces its own antiviral protein that is released from the infected and dying host cells. What is this protein called?
1. Interferon
2. Leishmania
3. Ascaris
4. Pertussis
Cancer is a disease caused due to the uncontrolled growth of tissues in any part of body. This disease comes under which of the following types?
1. Congenital disease
2. Infectious disease
3. Non-infectious disease
4. None of these
The main symptoms of the HIV-AIDS infection are due to the fact that patient’s body can no longer fight off many minor infections and hence becomes the reason of the patient’s ultimate death. This happens because:
1. HIV virus alone causes all the infections
2. HIV virus damages the immune system of the body
3. HIV virus releases a poison in the body
4. HIV virus directly attacks the human nervous system
Tuberculosis is a disease which spreads from one person to another directly or indirectly is diagnosed with the help of a protein extracted from a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis which also causes the disease. What is the name of this protein?
1. Tuberlysis
2. Rifampicin
3. Cephalosporin
4. Tuberculin
Cholera is an infectious, fatal disease caused by the bacterium which lives and multiplies in the small intestine. The disease sometimes occurs in epidemic form. Which of the following is not a reason for the spread of the disease?
1. Breeding of the flies on the garbage heaps
2. Use of spices in food
3. Drinking the contaminated water
4. Consuming the contaminated food
For the prevention of the dehydration, the patient is advised to take Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS). The main components of ORS solution are:
1. Sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, potassium chloride, glucose, sucrose and water
2. Sodium chloride, sodium carbonate, potassium chloride, glucose,sucrose and water
3. Sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, potassium chloride, glucose,sucrose and water
4. Sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, potassium chloride, glucose,sacrose and water
Water makes averagely about 60% part of human body and is necessary in every biochemical reaction occurring in human body. Which of the following is a disease which is caused due to the loss of water in the body making the patient seriously ill in a very short time?
1. Rehydration
2. Hydration
3. Dehydration
4. Hydrolysis
Mosquitoes are often seen breeding on the stagnant water. We should not allow mosquitoes to breed in our surroundings because they:
1. Multiply very fast and cause pollution
2. Are vectors for many diseases
3. Bite and cause skin diseases
4. Are not important insects
Infectious diseases are the diseases that can spread from infected person to the healthy person. Which of the following can make you ill if you come in contact with an infected person?
1. Genetic abnormality
2. Blood cancer
3. High blood pressure
4. Sneezing and coughing
Which of the following is not transferred by houseflies?
1. Typhoid
2. Cholera
3. Dysentery
4. AIDS
Which of the following is a fungal infection?
1. Ringworm
2. Measles
3. Syphilis
4. Tetanus
Viruses, which cause hepatitis is transmitted by:
1. Air
2. Water
3. Vector
4. Sexual contact
An organism which harbours a pathogen and may pass it on to another person to cause a disease is known as:
1. Host
2. Parasite
3. Vector
4. Predator
Which of the following is a mis-match?
1. Leprosy- Bacterial infection
2. Common cold- Viral infection
3. Malaria- Protozoan infection
4. AIDS- Bacterial infection
If you live in an overcrowded and poorly ventilated house, it is possible that you may suffer from:
1. Airborne disease
2. Waterborne disease
3. Congenital disease
4. Sexually transmitted disease
Children are vaccinated against polio because:
1. Vaccination kills polio causing microbes
2. Prevents the entry of polio causing organisms
3. It creates immunity against the virus
4. All the above
Which one of the following diseases is caused by protozoans?
1. Malaria
2. Influenza
3. AIDS
4. Cholera
Making anti-viral drugs is more difficult than making anti-bacterial medicines because:
1. Viruses make use of host machinery
2. Viruses are on the border line of living and non-living
3. Viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own
4. Viruses have a protein coat
Which one of the following is not important for individual health?
1. Living in clean space
2. Good economic condition
3. Social equality and harmony
4. Living in a large and well furnished house
Infectious diseases can also be prevented by using:
1. Vaccination
2. Immunisation
3. Tetanus
4. Chlorination

Why Do We Fall Ill

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