This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Science > Biology > Class 12 Biology Chapter 8 Human Health And Disease – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Biology Chapter 8 Human Health And Disease Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. For which of the following disease vaccine is not available? A) Pneumonia. B) Common cold. C) Mumps. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 2. The drugs used to quickly reduce the symptoms of allergy are(a) ati-histamine and adrenaline(b) histamine and thyroxine(c) adrenaline and a-interferon(d) all of these A) B. B) C. C) D. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. 3. The most feared property of malignant tumors is A) Hallucinations. B) Cardiovascular disorders. C) Metastasis. D) Loss of immunity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metastasis. 4. Microsporum, Trichophyton and Epidermophyton are responsible for which of the following disease? A) Ringworm. B) Elephantiasis. C) Chicken Pox. D) AIDS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ringworm. 5. 'Smack' is a drug obtained from the A) Flowers of Datura. B) Latex of Papever somniferum. C) Leaves of Cannabis saliva. D) Fruits of Erythroxyl coca. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Latex of Papever somniferum. 6. Pneumonia is caused byA. TrichophytonB. contact with infected personC. Streptococcus pneumohiaeD. Epidermophyton A) A, B, C, D. B) A, B. C) A, C, D. D) B, C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B, C. 7. The disease Chikungunya is transmitted by A) Cockroach. B) House flies. C) Female Anopheles. D) Aedes Mosquitoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aedes Mosquitoes. 8. Which of the following is used to diagnose typhoid? A) Mantoux Test. B) Giemsa Stain. C) Widal Test. D) ELISA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Widal Test. 9. What is a vector? A) Type of infectious disease. B) Pathogen. C) Type of emerging disease. D) Organism that carries pathogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organism that carries pathogen. 10. T-Lymphocytes are developed and maturated mainly in- A) Thymus. B) Bone marrow. C) Both bone marrow and Thymus. D) Spleen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both bone marrow and Thymus. 11. These are generally taken by inhalation and oral ingestion known to have their effects on Cardiovascular systems A) Cocaine. B) LSD. C) Opioids. D) Cannabinoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cannabinoid. 12. Small pox has been eradicated from world- A) Due to active vaccination against small pox on large scale. B) Due to auto immunity developed by us. C) Due to discovery of vaccine long ago. D) Injectable salk vaccine for small pox was easily available. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Due to active vaccination against small pox on large scale. 13. Plasmodium enters human body in an infectious form which is a stage of its life cycle. Name it. A) Hypnozoites. B) Gametocytes. C) Sporozoites. D) Merozoites. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sporozoites. 14. Sporozoites that causes infection when infected female Anopheles mosquito bites a person, are found in: A) Liver of the person. B) RBCs of mosquito. C) Salivary glands of mosquito. D) Gut of mosquito. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Salivary glands of mosquito. 15. Which one is the correct statement for passive natural immunity? A) Temporary and short-lived. B) Fast and temporary. C) Occurs when a person recovers from an infection. D) Occurs when a vaccine is injected into the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temporary and short-lived. 16. Where will you find the malaria parasite's sporozoites? A) Saliva of infected female Anopheles mosquito. B) Salivary glands of freshly moulted female Anopheles mosquito. C) Red blood corpuscles of humans suffering from malaria. D) Spleen of infected humans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saliva of infected female Anopheles mosquito. 17. The substance produced by a cell on viral infection that can protect other cells from further infection is [NCERT Exemplar](a) serotonin(b) colostrum(c) interferon(d) histamine A) C. B) A. C) B. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) C. 18. Antiallergens:Ig E, colostrum: ..... A) Ig D. B) Ig M. C) Ig A. D) Ig G. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ig A. 19. Any substance that is known to cause cancer is called a A) Pathogen. B) Nicolyte. C) Retrovirus. D) Carcinogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carcinogen. 20. What are chemicals that cause cancer called? A) Hazard. B) Neurotoxin. C) Teratogen. D) Carcinogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carcinogen. 21. Colostrum secreted from the mammary gland contains which type of antibodies? A) IgA. B) IgD. C) IgE. D) IgM. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) IgA. 22. The treatment of snake-bite by antivenin is an example of A) Artificially acquired active immunity. B) Artificially acquired passive immunity. C) Naturally acquired passive immunity. D) Specific natural immunity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artificially acquired passive immunity. 23. Hepatitis B is transmitted through(a) sneezing(b) female Anopheles(c) coughing(d) blood transfusion. A) C. B) B. C) A. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 24. The antibodies produced during allergy are A) IG g type. B) Ig M type. C) Ig A type. D) Ig E type. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ig E type. 25. Transmission of HIV-infection generally occurs by A) Shaking hands with the infected person. B) Eating food with the infected person. C) Using clothes of infected person. D) Sexual contact with infected person. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sexual contact with infected person. 26. Which of the following immune responses is responsible of kidney graft? A) Auto immune response. B) Inflammatory immune response. C) Cell mediated immune response. D) Humoral immune response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cell mediated immune response. 27. Using drugs or medicines to destroy cancer cells. A) Cancer surgery. B) Chemotherapy. C) Radiation therapy. D) Mitotic spindling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chemotherapy. 28. Blood vessels near a wound dilate and become more permeable in response to which material released from damaged cells? A) Histamine. B) Interferons. C) Antibodies. D) Pyrogens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Histamine. 29. Which of the following is not correct with respect to malaria? A) RBCs rupture and release haemozoin which causes chills. B) Sporozoites multiply in blood. C) Female Anopheles mosquito is the vector. D) Malignant malaria is caused by Plasmodium falciparum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sporozoites multiply in blood. 30. The immunoglobulin abundant in colostrum, is(a) Ig D(b) Ig A(c) Ig G(d) Ig M A) A. B) D. C) C. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B. 31. Congenital disorders are due to A) Genetic mutations. B) Chromosomal abberations. C) Both a and b. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 32. Innate immunity is A) By birth immunity. B) Immunity developed after infection. C) Immunity after vaccination. D) Immunity develops after birth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By birth immunity. 33. The toxic substance associated with the rupture of RBCs which is responsible for the chills and high fever to recur in a Malarial infection is A) Haemoglobin. B) Haemerythrin. C) Haemocyanin. D) Haemozoin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haemozoin. 34. In the immune system, the interferons are a part of A) Physical barrier. B) Physiological barrier. C) Cellular barrier. D) Cytokine barrier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cytokine barrier. 35. How does washing hands help in preventing illness? A) Washing hands helps prevent illness by removing germs and reducing the spread of infections. B) Washing hands increases the number of germs on the skin. C) Washing hands only cleans dirt but not germs. D) Washing hands has no effect on illness prevention. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Washing hands helps prevent illness by removing germs and reducing the spread of infections. 36. Antibodies are produced by A) B-lymphocytes and T-lymphocytes. B) B-lymphocytes. C) T-lymphocytes. D) T-memory cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B-lymphocytes. 37. Tetanus is caused by A) Bacteria. B) Virus. C) Fungi. D) Protozoa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bacteria. 38. Read the following statements and select the correct optinon Statement 1:Malarial parasite requires two hosts humans and Haemozoin is a toxic substance produced by the rupturing of liver cells during malarial infection A) Mosquitoes to ca) Both statements 1 and 2 are correct. B) Statement 1 is correct but statement 2 is incorrect. C) Statement 1 is incorrect but statement 2 is correct. D) Both statements 1 and 2 are incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Statement 1 is correct but statement 2 is incorrect. 39. Grit and small pebbles in the sewage is removed by A) Sedimentation. B) Filtration. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sedimentation. 40. Damage to thymus in a child may lead to A) Loss of antibody mediated immunity. B) A reduction in haemoglobin content of blood. C) Loss of cell mediated immunity. D) A reduction in stem cell production. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loss of cell mediated immunity. 41. AIDS was first reported in A) 1981. B) 1971. C) 1951. D) 1961. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1981. 42. Which of the follwoing is responsible for Graft Rejection? A) Cell-mediated immune response. B) Humoral immune response. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cell-mediated immune response. 43. Which way a pathogen can enter the body? A) Nose. B) Injured skin. C) Mouth. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 44. Which of the following is an autoimmune disease? A) Asthma. B) AIDS. C) Cirrhosis. D) Rheumatoid anthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rheumatoid anthritis. 45. Widel test is used to confirm ..... A) Malaria. B) Typhoid. C) Hepatitis. D) AIDS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Typhoid. 46. Identify the disease-caused by rhino virus A) Tetanus. B) Common cold. C) Typhid. D) Pneumonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Common cold. 47. A person likely to develop tetanus is immunized by administering A) Weakened germs. B) Dead germs. C) Preformed antibodies. D) Wide spectrum antibiotics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preformed antibodies. 48. Which of these glands is large at the time of birth but in adults, it reduces to a very small size?(a) Thyroid(b) Adrenal(c) Thymus(d) Spleen A) C. B) A. C) D. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) C. 49. Screening test of AIDS is: A) Western blot. B) PCR. C) Southern blot. D) ELISA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ELISA. 50. Read the following statements about health and select the incorrect one. A) Immune system maintains our health. B) Health is defined as a state of complete, physical, mental and social well-being. C) Health increases productivity and economic prosperity. D) Health increases infant and maternal mortality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Health increases infant and maternal mortality. 51. What is the difference between benign and malignant tumors? A) Benign tumors are not life threatening and malignant tumors are life threatening. B) Benign tumors are life threatening and malignant tumors are not life threatening. C) Benign tumors can have multiple nuclei while malignant tumors do not. D) Benign tumors can have multiple chromosome while malignant tumors do not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benign tumors are not life threatening and malignant tumors are life threatening. 52. Common cold differs from pneumonia as A) Pneumonia is caused by a virus whereas common cold is caused by a bacterium. B) A pneumonia pathogen infects alveoli whereas common old affects nose and respiratory passage but not the lungs. C) Pneumonia is a non communicable disease whereas common cold is a communicable didsease. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A pneumonia pathogen infects alveoli whereas common old affects nose and respiratory passage but not the lungs. 53. Cancer of the body's blood-forming tissues. A) Carcinoma. B) Lymphoma. C) Leukemia. D) Sarcoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leukemia. 54. Common cold is caused by ..... X which infects ..... Y. A) X=rhinovirus, Y=nose and respiratory tract. B) X=rhinovirus, Y=nose and lungs. C) X=retrovirus, Y=respiratory tract and lungs. D) X=rhinovirus, Y=respiratory tract and lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) X=rhinovirus, Y=nose and respiratory tract. 55. Which of the following pairs correctly matches a disease and a pathogen causing it? A) Pneumonia-Haemophilus. B) Ringworm-entamoeba histolyides. C) Typhouid-salamnella typhi. D) Malaria-acris lumbricoides. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Typhouid-salamnella typhi. 56. Passive immunity can be conferred directly by(a) vaccines(b) antitoxins(c) colostrum(d) both (b) & (c) A) B. B) D. C) A. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) D. 57. The test used for detecting HIV A) Widal test. B) CT scan. C) ELISA. D) Mammogram. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ELISA. 58. The disease chikungunia is transmitted by: A) Cockroach. B) House fly. C) Female Anopheles. D) Aedes mosquito. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aedes mosquito. 59. Humoral immunity is associated with: A) T-cells. B) B-cells. C) Macrophages. D) Both (a) and (b). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B-cells. 60. Diseasetransmitted through body fluids A) Streptococcus infection. B) AIDS. C) Malaria. D) Both a and b. 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