Multiple Choice Questions
Human Disease & Their Causes:
A disease is a disorder that is caused by due to abnormal changes in the structure or function of an organ. An illness is a state in a person that is identified by themselves based on physical or mental symptoms.
Que: 1 …………………..is called the father of medicine.
a) Darwin
b) Heckle
c) Edward Jenner
d) Hippocrates
Que: 2 The disease-causing organism in humans is called:
a) Vector
b) Pathogen
c) Bacterium
d) Virus
Que: 3 Which of the following is an infectious disease?
a) Diabetes
b) Diptheria
c) Arthritis
d) Cancer
Que: 4 Irrational fear of disease is called:
a) Hydrophobia
b) Pathophobia
c) Aerophobia
d) Haemophobia
Que: 5 Study of the cause of the disease is called:
a) Ecology
b) Exobiology
c) Aerology
d) Etiology
Que:6 Which of the following is a toxic substance?
a) Sporozoite
b) Hemozoin
c) Haemoglobin
d) Thrombin
Que: 7 Malaria is spread by the bite of………..mosquito:
a) Dengue
b) Anopheles
c) Culex
d) Aedes
Que: 8 The pair of diseases caused by bacteria is:
a) Cholera and Typhoid
b) Cholera and TB
c) Diptheria and Chicken Pox
d) TB and Chicken Pox
Que:9 A sexually transmitted bacterial disease is:
a) AIDS
b) Syphilis
c) Herpes
d) Hepatitis
Que: 10 Health hazard floods are responsible for the spread of:
a) Malaria
b) Cholera
c) Influenza
d) Diarrhoea
Que: 11 AIDS is due to:
a) Reduction in the number of helper T-cells
b) Reduction in the number of killer TR-Cells
c) Autoimmunity
d) Non-production of interferons
Que:12 Malaria parasite completes its life cycle in:
a) Mosquito
b) Human
c) Both above
d) Elephant
Que: 13 Select the viral disease:
a) Diabetes
b) Tetanus
c) Leprosy
d) Poliomyelitis
Que: 14 Who discovered the malaria parasite:
a) Ronal Ross
b) Laveran
c) Leuvehock
d) Luis Pasture
Que: 15 The pathogen of typhoid is directly transmitted through:
a) Urine
b) Water
c) Blood
d) Cerebrospinal
Que:16 Which of the following specimen is tested the most for the detection of the carrier of typhoid:
a) Urine
b) Blood
c) Faeces
d) Sputum
Que: 17 Scurvy disease is caused by the deficiency of :
a) B Complex
b) Vitamin C
c) Vitamin D
d) Vitamin K
Que: 18 Malaria parasites attack:
a) RBCs
b) WBCs
c) Platelets
d) None of these
Que: 19 A deficiency of ……………….is a disease of rickets:
a) Vitamin C
b) Vitamin A
c) Vitamin B
d) Vitamin D
Que: 20 AIDS virus spreads in the body through:
a) Suppressor T-Cells
b) Carrier T – Cells
c) Helper T-Cells
d) Killer T-Cells
Que: 21 TAB Vaccine is useful against:
a) Polio
b) Diptheria
c) Pertussis
d) Typhoid
Que: 22 The cells which act as a parasite in the body:
a) Schwann Cells
b) Hepatocytes
c) kupffer’s Cells
d) Cancer Cells
Que:23 The deficiency of which nutrient causes night blindness:
a) Vitamin K
b) Vitamin C
c) Proteins
d) Vitamin A
Que: 24 The Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine (Popularly called BCG Vaccine) is a vaccine to prevent which of the following disease:
a) Jaundice
b) Typhoid
c) Tuberculosis
d) Polio
Que: 25 Which of the following is not a water-borne disease?
a) Typhoid
b) Mumps
c) Polio
d) Cholera
Que: 26 Which one of the following diseases is communicable:
a) Rickets
b) Amoebiasis
c) Diabetes
d) Cancer
Que: 27 Which parts of the human body get affected by the illness osteoporosis:
a) Bones
b) Brain
c) Lungs
d) Kidney
Que: 28 Hypokalaemia is caused by the deficiency of:
a) Iodine
b) Potassium
c) Calcium
d) Iron
Que: 29 Infectious stage of the malaria parasite is:
a) Trophozoite
b) Sporozoite
c) Tetranucleate Cyst
d) None
Que: 30 Identify the disease caused by the deficiency of Vitamin B1:
a) Ariboflavinosis
b) Rickets
c) Beriberi
d) Glossiti
Disclaimer: All the MCQs are related to aspirants who are preparing for competitive exams like Railway, SSC, RRB etc.
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