NDA Biology MCQs for Practice [General Science]

Question 01: How many bones comprise the adult human skeleton?

A. 204 bones
B. 206 bones
C. 208 bones
D. 214 bones

Question 02: Which of the following statement is related with the 'Sulphur shower'?

A. Discharge of large quantities of Crocus (yellow kesar) pollen grains into the air.
B. Discharge of large quantities of pinus pollen grains into the air forming yellowish clouds.
C. Release of a large amount of sulphur particles into the air from factories processing sulphur.
D. Release of a large amount of sulphur particles into the air near sulphur mines.

Question 03: In the given item consist of two statements, one labelled as 'Assertion (A)' and the other
labelled as 'Reason (R)'.

Assertion (A): Persons with AB blood group can accept blood from any blood group.

Reason (R): They are universal acceptor.

Select your answers to these items using the codes given below.

Codes:

A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

B. Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
C. A is true but R is false

Answers are given below.

D. A is false but R is true

Question 04: In the given item consist of two statements, one labelled as 'Assertion (A)' and the other
labelled as 'Reason (R)'.

Assertion (A): Saturated fats are more reactive as compared to unsaturated fats.

Reason (R): Molecules of unsaturated fats have double bonds.

Select your answers to these items using the codes given below.

Codes:

A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

B. Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
C. A is true but R is false
D. A is false but R is true
Question 05: In the given item consist of two statements, one labelled as 'Assertion (A)' and the other
labelled as 'Reason (R)'.

Assertion (A): The sons of a colour blind woman are always colour blind but not the daughters.

Reason (R): Colour blindness is a sex-linked character and such characters are transferred from
mother to son only.

Select your answers to these items using the codes given below.

Codes:

A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

B. Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
C. A is true but R is false
D. A is false but R is true

Question 06: How many HIV positive infections that are occurring everyday in the world?

A. 6,000
B. 60,000
C. 600,000
D. 1,000,000

Question 07: Bombyx mori, that produces fine filaments of silk inside the cocoon, is a:

A. Butterfly
B. Dipteran (silkworm)
C. Moth
D. Mulberry plant hemipteran

Question 08: Why was DDT banned which an organ chlorine compound, used first to control malaria,

Answers are given below.

carried in mosquitoes and later to a variety to insect pests?

A. It brings about a change in sex chromosomes

B. It persists in the environment and bio-accumulates
C. It increases its affinity hundred-fold for haemoglobin preventing its coupling with oxygen
D. All of these

Question 09: What is the reason behind the small shrunken scrotal of an adult bulls straying on Delhi
roads?

A. Congenital defect
B. Negative feedback due to extremely high levels of testosterone
C. Castration
D. All of these
Question 10: Which of the following components increases the effectiveness of the Photosynthesis
process?

A. Ultraviolet
B. Red
C. Blue
D. Infrared

Question 11: What is the weight of human heart?

A. 100 gms
B. 300 gms
C. 800 gms
D. 1000 gms

Question 12: Which of the following gland controls the blood pressure?

A. Thalamus gland
B. Adrenal gland
C. Thyroid gland
D. Pancreas gland

Question 13: In which organ of the human body are the lymphocyte cells formed?

A. Liver
B. Long bone
C. Pancreas
D. Spleen

Question 14: Which of the following is one of the functions of antigen?

Answers are given below.

A. Lowers body temperature
B. Destroys harmful bacteria
C. Triggers the immune system
D. Used as an antidote to poison

Question 15: Which of the following process that does not involve evolution of CO2?

A. Combustion
B. Respiration
C. Fermentation
D. Photosynthesis

Question 16: Name the Glands associated with the Human Digestive System?

A. Salivary Glands and Pancreas

B. Salivary Glands and Liver
 C. Liver and Pancreas
D. Salivary Glands, Liver & Pancreas

Question 17: Arrange the correct sequence of the steps involved in the process of Human Digestive
System?

A. Digestion, Ingestion, Assimilation, Egestion and Absorption

B. Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption, Assimilation and Egestion
C. Egestion, Absorption, Digestion, Assimilation and Ingestion
D. Assimilation, Absorption, Ingestion, Digestion and Egestion

Question 18: In which part of the body digestion of protein begins?

A. Pancreas
B. Stomach
C. Small Intestine
D. Large Intestine

Question 19: What is the Function of Hydrochloric Acid?

(i) It makes pepsin enzyme effective.

(ii) It kills bacteria which may enter in stomach with food.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

A. Only (i) B.
B. Only (ii)
C. Both (i) and (ii)
D. Neither (i) nor (ii)

Question 20: Name the largest part of the Alimentary canal?

Answers are given below.

A. Large Intestine
B. Small Intestine
C. Liver
D. Stomach

Question 21: Complete digestion of food occurs in:

A. Stomach
B. Small Intestine
C. Pancreas
D. Large Intestine

Question 22: What is the function of Bile Juice secreted by Liver?

A. It makes the food alkaline.

 B. It makes the food acidic.
C. It breaks down the food.
D. None of the above

Question 23: Name the hardest material present in the body?

A. Dentin
B. Pulp
C. Enamel
D. None of the above

Question 24: In which part of our body food gets absorbed?

A. Small Intestine
B. Large Intestine
C. Stomach
D. Liver

Question 25: The undigested food stored in the liver in the form of carbohydrate is called:

A. Pulp
B. Glucose
C. Glycogen
D. Carbohydrate

Question 26: Who discovered cell in 1665?

A. Robert Hook
B. Robert Crook
C. David Thomson
D. Marie Francois

Answers are given below.

Question 27: Name an Organelle which serves as a primary packaging area for molecules that will be
distributed throughout the cell?

A. Mitochondria
B. Plastids
C. Golgi apparatus
D. Vacuole

Question 28: Name the outer most boundary of cell?

A. Plasma membrane
B. Cytoplasm
C. Nuclear membrane
D. None of the above
Question 29: Name the process in which the ingestion of material by the cells is done through the plasma
membrane?

A. Egestion
B. Diffusion
C. Osmosis
D. Éndocytosis

Question 30: Which among the following sentence is not correct about the organelles?

A. They are found in all Eukaryotic cells.

B. They are found in multicellular organisms.
C. They coordinate to produce the cell.
D. They are small sized and mostly internal.

Question 31: Name the process in which the passage of water goes from a region of higher concentration
to a region of lower concentration through a semi permeable membrane?

A. Diffusion
B. Osmosis
C. Both A) and B)
D. Neither A) and B)

Question 32: Name an organism which contains single chromosome and cell division occurs through
fission or budding?

A. Eukaryotes
B. Prokaryotes
C. Bacteria
D. Primitive organism

Answers are given below.

Question 33: Name the process in which the membrane of a vesicle can fuse with the plasma membrane
and extrude its contents to the surrounding medium?

A. Exocytosis
B. Endocytosis
C. Osmosis
D. Diffusion

Question 34: The jelly like substance present inside the cell is known as:

A. Cytoplasm
B. Ectoplasm
C. Nucleoplasm
D. None of the above

Question 35: Blue green Algae are:

 A. Prokaryotes
B. Eukaryotes
C. Both A) and B)
D. Neither A) and B)

Question 36: Which of the following statements are correct regarding respiration in plants?

I. Respiration is the process of releasing energy from food. II.

II. Respiration takes place individually in all parts of the plants like stem, roots, leaves etc. III.
III. The rate of respiration is slow in plants whereas it is faster in humans and animals.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

A. I and III are correct

B. I and II are correct
C. I, II and III are correct
D. None of the above

Question 37: Name the process through which much needed oxygen is supplied to all the cells of the
plants?

A. Diffusion
B. Endosmosis
C. Exosmosis
D. Photosynthesis

Question 38: Due to Water logging:

A. An air is expelled from in-between the particles of soil.

B. Oxygen becomes unavailable to the roots of the plants.
C. Plants respire anaerobically which produces alcohol and kill them.

Answers are given below.

D. All the above are correct.

Question 39: Respiration in Plants takes place through:

A. Stomata
B. Lenticels
C. Both A and B
D. Only A

Question 40: Consider the following statements:

A. Respiration takes place both day and night.

B. Photosynthesis occurs during day time only.
C. Both A and B are correct.
D. Neither A nor B are correct.
Question 41: Some plants store waste in their fruits in the form of solid bodies called:

A. Raphides
B. Lenticels
C. Stomata
D. Resins

Question 42: Various methods used by plants to get rid of their waste products are:

I. Gaseous waste through stomata and lenticels. II.

II. Stored solid and liquid waste by shedding leaves, peeling of bark and falling of fruits.III.
III. By secreting waste in the form of gum and resins.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

A. I and II are correct.

B. II and III are correct.
C. I and III are correct.
D. I, II and III are correct.

Question 43: Name the waste products secreted by Plants?

A. Carbon Dioxide
B. Oxygen
C. Water Vapour
D. All are correct.

Question 44: Which of the following statements is/are correct?

I. The net gaseous exchange in leaves at night is, oxygen diffuses in and carbon dioxide
diffuses out.

Answers are given below.

II. Net gaseous exchange during day time is, oxygen diffuses out and carbon dioxide
diffuses in.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

A. Only I is correct.
B. Only II is correct
C. Both I and II are correct
D. Neither I nor II is correct.

Question 45: Name an extension of the epidermal cells of a root which is in direct contact with the soil?

A. Root Hairs
B. Internodes
C. Bundle Scars
D. Pith
Question 46: What is the process of intake of nutrients by an organism as well as the utilisation of these
nutrients by the organisms called?

A. Nutrition
B. Photosynthesis
C. Chloroplasts
D. Digestion

Question 47: The mode of nutrition in which an organism makes its own food from the simple inorganic
material like carbon dioxide and water present in the surrounding is called:

A. Heterotrophic nutrition
B. Saprotrophic nutrition
C. Autotrophic nutrition
D. Holozoic nutrition

Question 48: What is the mode of nutrition called in which organisms cannot make its own food from
simple inorganic material and depends on other organisms for its food?

A. Autotrophic nutrition
B. Heterotrophic nutrition
C. Parasitic nutrition
D. Holozoic nutrition

Question 49: When an organism obtains its food from decaying organic matter of dead plants, dead
animals and rotten bread, etc., it is called:

A. Parasitic nutrition
B. Autotrophic nutrition
C. Holozoic nutrition
D. Saprotrophic nutrition

Answers are given below.

Question 50: The nutrition in which an organism derives its food from the body of another living
organism without killing it, it’s called:

A. Saprotrophic nutrition
B. Parasitic nutrition
C. Holozoic nutrition
D. Autotrophic nutrition
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