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Which one of the following is not a genetic disease?
GS Paper I (General Studies)
Study the subject as one continuous question paper, or narrow it to a particular year.
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
Hormone | Function | |
A. | Insulin | regulation of blood |
B. | Melatonin | regulation of sleep |
C. | Oxytocin | release of milk from |
D. | Gastrin | regulation of blood |
Which one of the following is used in the treatment of blood cancer?
Consider the following statements about haemoglobin:
1. It carries oxygen in the blood.
2. It is an iron-containing compound.
3. It provides immunity against certain diseases.
4. It imparts red colour to the blood.
The correct statements out of these are:
Quinine, the effective medicine in the treatment of malaria, is extracted from
A man, who does not know when to stop eating, is suffering from
Pungency in chillies is due to the presence of
Change in the base sequence within the gene is called
The plants receive Nitrogen in form of
For human blood transfusion, which blood group is known as universal donor?
The brain is responsible for
Leukaemia is a type of cancer in which there is abnormal increase in the number of ______
Smallest man-like ape is
In which part of the cinchona plant does quinine occur naturally?
If a human disease breaks out across a large region of the world, what is it called?
Grains of Basmati rice get elongated on being cooked because of higher content of:
The disease caused due to deficiency of iron is known as
The temperature of the human body
Which of the following is used in Genetic-Engineering?
Which one of the following is a plant hormone?
Which one of the following is a water borne disease?
‘Cloves’ are
When doctor tells a person that he/she has been affected with tetraplegia, it means that he/she is suffering from paralysis of
Which of the following species is the largest of the 'toothed-whales’ ?