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GENERAL SCIENCE MCQS
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The unit of energy produced by food in the human body is called
(a) Watt
(b) DNA
(c) Calorie (Correct)
(d) Ampere
2. Proteins are made of
(a) Sugar
(b) Fatty acid
(c) Nucleic acid
(d) Amino acid (Correct)
3. Amount of water in mammalian blood is
(a) 99%
(b) 98%
(c) 90% (Correct)
(d) 92%
4. Which of the following Vitamin helps in clotting of blood?
(a) Vitamin B
(b) Vitamin A
(c) Vitamin D
(d) Vitamin K (Correct)
5. Which of the following vitamins are fat soluble?
(a) Vitamins A,B, C, D
(b) Vitamins A, D, E, K (Correct)
(c) Vitamins A, B, C, D
(d) None of these
6. Which of the following is not a source of Vitamin C?
(a) Potato
(b) Tomato
(c) Guava
(d) Milk (Correct)
7. Ozone is present in which of the following layers of atmosphere
(a) Troposphere and Thermosphere
(b) Troposphere and Stratosphere (Correct)
(c) Mesosphere
(d) Thermosphere
8. The study of relationship between organism and their environment is called
(a) Ecology (Correct)
(b) Oncology
(c) Lithology
(d) None of these
9. Most of the ozone in the atmosphere is concentrated in the
(a) Mesosphere
(b) Troposphere
(c) Stratosphere (Correct)
(d) Ionosphere
10. The most abundant element in Earth’s crust is
(a) Silicon
(b) Oxygen (Correct)
(c) Aluminum
(d) None of these
11. Which of the following vitamins is Water soluble?
(a) Vitamins B, E
(b) Vitamins A, B
(c) Vitamins C, D
(d)Vitamins B, C (Correct)
12. In railway tracks, a small gap is left between the rails
(a) To allow for the expansion during heat (Correct)
(b) To save the cost of metal
(c) To permit the shrinkage of metal
13. Friction can be reduced by changing over from
(a) Sliding to rolling (Correct)
(b) Rolling to sliding
(c) Potential energy to kinetic energy
14. A solid ball of metal has a spherical cavity inside it. If the ball is heated, the volume of the cavity will
(a) Increase
(b) Decrease (Correct)
(c) Remain unaffected
15. As we climb up the mountain, the atmospheric pressure will
(a) Decrease (Correct)
(b) Increase
(c) Remain the same
(d) None of these
16. Which of the following vitamin is produced in the body with the help of sunlight?
(a) Vitamin D (Correct)
(b) Vitamin E
(c) Vitamin K
(d) None of these
17. Vitamin ‘D’ prevents
(a) Tooth diseases
(b) Bone diseases (Correct)
(c) Eye diseases
(d) Skin diseases
18. Heart attack is caused due to
(a) Blood sugar
(b) Cholesterol (Correct)
(c) Blood protein
(d) Blood urea
19. Which of the following diseases has posed a serious threat the world over?
(a) Tumour
(b) Paralytic stroke
(c) AIDS (Correct)
(d) Tuberculosis
20. Which of the following disease is not water-borne?
(a) Cholera
(b) Influenza (Correct)
(c) Amoebiasis
(d) Typhoid
21. Typhoid and cholera are typical examples of
(a) Infection diseases
(b) Air-borne diseases
(c) Water-borne diseases (Correct)
(d) None of these
22. Who invented the hydrogen bomb?
(a) J. Robert Oppenheimer
(b) Albert Einstein
(c) Samuel Cohen (Correct)
(d) Edward Teller
23. Logarithm tables were invented by
(a) John Napier (Correct)
(b) John Doe
(c) John Harrison
(d) John Douglas
24. Who invented optical fibre?
(a) Samuel Cohen
(b) Narinder Kapany (Correct)
(c) Percy L. Spencer
(d) T. H. Maimah
25. Brass is an alloy of
(a) Copper and Tin
(b) Copper and Zinc (Correct)
(c) Copper and Nickel
(d) None of these
26. A transformer is used to
(a) Increase DC voltage
(b) Increase or decrease AC voltage (Correct)
(c) Decrease DC voltage
(d) None of these
27. Which of the following gases is used for purification of water?
(a) Oxygen
(b) Ammonia
(c) Chlorine (Correct)
(d) Neon
28. Pure gold is
(a) 17 carats
(b) 20 carats
(c) 24 carats (Correct)
(d) 36 carats
29. Which of the following is a gas?
(a) Thorium
(b) Plutonium
(c) Mercury
(d) Chlorine (Correct)
30. Which one of the following mixture of gases is required in gas welding?
(a) Oxygen and ethylene
(b) Oxygen and hydrogen
(c) Acetylene and oxygen (Correct)
(d) All of above
31. One horse power is equal to
(a) 736 watts
(b) 746 watts (Correct)
(c) 748 watts
(d) 796 watts
32. Heat from the sun is received by the earth through
(a) Conduction
(b) Convection
(c) Radiation (Correct)
33. As the temperature of ice rises, the ice melts and its density
(a) Decreases
(b) Constant
(c) Increases (Correct)
(d) All of above
34. A branch of science dealing with the study of fossils is called
(a) Parasitology
(b) Palaeontology (Correct)
(c) Theology
(d) Radiology
35. The theory of inheritance of acquired characters was propounded by
(a) Charles Darwin
(b) Gregor Mendal (Correct)
(c) J.B. Lamarck
(d) Weismann
36. Which of the following was discovered by Ronald Ross?
(a) Cholera germs
(b) Malaria parasite (Correct)
(c) Jaundice germs
(d) None of these
37. Radioactivity was discovered by
(a) Henry Bequerel (Correct)
(b) Marie Curie
(c) Newton
(d) Einstein
38. The science of heavenly bodies is called
(a) Astrophysics
(b) Astronomy (Correct)
(c) Astroneuties
(d) Cosmology
39. Which of the following has no blood, but respires?
(a) Cockroach
(b) Earthworm
(c) Fish
(d) Hydra (Correct)
40. Which of the following is the basic characteristic of a living organism?
(a) Ability to move
(b) Ability to reproduce (Correct)
(c) Ability to eat
(d) Ability to breath
41. In which organ of the human body are the lymphocyte cells formed?
(a) Liver
(b) Long bone
(c) Pancreas
(d) Spleen (Correct)
42. What is stored in the gall bladder?
(a) Enzymes
(b) Bile (Correct)
(c) Urea
(d) Insulin
43. The study of structures and formation of rocks and minerals on other plants is called
(a) Cosmology
(b) Virology
(c) Astrogeology (Correct)
(d) Histology
44. Which vitamin canot store in human body?
(a) Vitamin A
(b) Vitamin C (Correct)
(c) Vitamin D
(d) Vitamin E
45. Deficiency of vitamin C causes
(a) Night-blindness
(b) Beri-Beri
(c) Scurvy (Correct)
(d) None of these
46. Which Vitamin is known as Ascorbic Acid?
(a) Vitamin A
(b) Vitamin B
(c) Vitamin K
(d) Vitamin C (Correct)
47. Deficiency of Vitamin C causes
(a) Tooth diseases (Correct)
(b) Bone diseases
(c) Eye diseases
(d) Skin diseases
48. All forms of energy that we use are ultimately transformed into
(a) Electrical energy
(b) Heat energy (Correct)
(c) Light energy
(d) Chemical energy
49. Water helps in the metabolism process in the presence of
(a) Amino acids
(b) Ribonucleic Acid
(c) Proteins
(d) Enzymes (Correct)
50. The proteins are made in the cells under the instructions of
(a) Genes (Correct)
(b) DNA
(c) RNA
(d) Ribosome
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