The common cold is characterized by nasal congestion and discharge, sore throat, hoarseness, cough, headache tiredness, etc. which usually lasts for 3-7 days. Infection may occur through
1. Contaminated food and water
2. Hypodermic needles
3. Droplet infection resulting from cough and sneezes
4. Bite of infected mosquito
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NEET MCQ Books for XIth & XIIth Physics, Chemistry & BiologyCommon cold is not cured by antibiotics because it is
1. caused by a Gram-negaive bacterium
2. not an infectious disease
3. viral disease
4. caused by a Gram-positive bacterium
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NEET MCQ Books for XIth & XIIth Physics, Chemistry & BiologyWhich one of the following organisms is scientifically correctly named, correctly printed according to the International Rules of Nomenclature, and correctly described?
1. | Plasmodium falciparum – a protozoan pathogen causing the most serious type of malaria |
2. | Felis tigris – The Indian tiger, well protected in Gir forests. |
3. | E.Coli – Full name Entamoeba coli, a commonly occurring bacterium in the human intestine |
4. | Musca domestica – The common house lizard, a reptile |
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NEET MCQ Books for XIth & XIIth Physics, Chemistry & BiologyThe means of spread of which two infectious diseases is common?
1. Malaria and Filariasis
2. Pneumonia and the common cold
3. Typhoid and Ringworms
4. Pneumonia and Malaria
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NEET MCQ Books for XIth & XIIth Physics, Chemistry & BiologyWhich of the following is not an intestinal parasite?
1. Entamoeba histolytica
2. Ascaris
3. Salmonella typhi
4. Plasmodium
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NEET MCQ Books for XIth & XIIth Physics, Chemistry & BiologyThe most infectious human ailment caused by a virus is
1. Common cold
2. AIDS
3. Pneumonia
4. Lung cancer
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NEET MCQ Books for XIth & XIIth Physics, Chemistry & BiologyCommon cold differs from pneumonia in, that:
1. | Pneumonia is a communicable disease, whereas common cold is a nutritional deficiency disease |
2. | Pneumonia can be prevented by a live attenuated bacterial vaccine, whereas the common cold has no effective vaccine |
3. | Common cold is caused by a virus, while Pneumonia is caused by a bacterium. |
4. | Pneumonia pathogen infects alveoli whereas common cold affects the nose and the respiratory passage but not the lungs |
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NEET MCQ Books for XIth & XIIth Physics, Chemistry & BiologyIn malaria; the female Anopheles mosquito is
1. Host
2. Vector
3. Both
4. Neither host nor vector completely
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NEET MCQ Books for XIth & XIIth Physics, Chemistry & BiologyWhich of the following statements is incorrect with respect to malaria?
1 Malaria is a disease caused by a protozoan
2 Malignant malaria is caused by Plasmodium falciparum
3 Parasites enter the mosquito's body and multiply to form sporozoites that are stored in stomach of mosquito
4 Malaria parasites initially multiply within the liver cells in humans
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NEET MCQ Books for XIth & XIIth Physics, Chemistry & BiologyRelease of which of the following is responsible for recurrent malarial symptoms?
1 Sporozoites
2 Haemozoin
3 Gametes in blood
4 Hemoglobin
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