MCQ IN NURSING & BIOLOGY- 1

ESIC staff nurse entrance exam model question paper :Biology
Nursing Aptitude Test Free Sample Questions
1. Which of the following set is the evidence of evolution?
(a) Homologous and vestigial organs
(b) Analogous and vestigial organs
(c) Homologous and analogous organs
(d) All of the above
Ans. (a)

2. Of the following anatomical structures, which is homologous to the wing of a bat?
(a) The arm of a human
(b) The wing of a butterfly
(c) The tail of a fish
(d) The dorsal fin of a shark
Ans. (a)

3. Which one of the following sets of structures includes only analogous organs?
(a) Wings of butterfly, housefly and bat
(b) Hind legs of horse
(c) Hands of man, monkey and kangaroo
(d) Mandibles of cockroach, mosquito and honeybee
Ans. (a)

4. Which of the following set represents all vestigial structures in the human body?
(a) Vermiform appendix, body hair and cochlea
(b) Wisdom teeth, coccyx and patella
(c) Coccyx, vermiform appendix and muscles of ear pinna
(d) Body hair, muscles of ear pinna and atlas vertebra
Ans. (c)

5. The earliest animal to have been domesticated by man most likely the
(a) Horse
(b) Pig
(c) Dog
(d) Cow
Ans. (c)

6. Presence of gill slits in the embryo of all vertebrates supports the theory of
(a) Organic evolution
(b) Recapitulation
(c) Metamorphosis
(d) Biogenesis
Ans. (b)

7. Appearance of ancestral characters in the new borne, such as tail, multiple mammae, etc., are known as
(a) Homologous
(b) Analogous
(c) Atavistic
(d) Vestigial
Ans. (c)

8. Evolution is defined as
(a) History of race
(b) Development of race
(c) History and development of race with variations
(d) Progressive history of race
Ans. (c)

9. The book named “Philosophic zoologique” was published in 1809 and was written by:
(a) Mendel
(b) Darwin
(c) De Vries
(d) Lamarck
Ans. (d)

10. Penguin is a bird that lost the use of its wings by not flying. Such a statement would express the views of
(a) Darwin
(b) Wallace
(c) Lamarck
(d) Huxley
Ans. (c)

11. A scientist kept 80 generations of Drosophila in darkness, even after that the flies had normal eyes. This disapproves law of
(a) Natural selection
(b) Acquired characters
(c) Use and disuse
(d) Synthetic theory
Ans. (b)

12. Weismann cut off tails of mice generation after generation but tails neither disappeared nor shortened showing that
(a) Darwin was correct
(b) Tail is an essential organ
(c) Mutation theory is wrong
(d) Lamarckism was wrong in inheritance of acquired characters
Ans. (d)

13. What did CHARLES DARWIN publish in 1859?
(a) Origin of Species by Natural selection
(b) Species plantarum
(c) Philosophie Zoologique
(d) De Naturien Familien
Ans. (a)

14. The book ‘Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex’ was written by:
(a) Charles Darwin
(b) J.B. Lamarck and C. Darwin
(c) F.B. Sumner and E. Darwin
(d) Robert Brown
Ans. (a)

15. Darwin worked on Galapagos finches. The number of species of these finches is
(a) 10
(b) 12
(c) 14
(d) 11
Ans. (c)

16. Which one of the following evolutionists proposed the theory of evolution similar to
Charles Darwin’s?
(a) Alfred Russell Wallace
(b) Erasmus Darwin
(c) Thomas Godfrey
(d) Thomas Robert Malthus
Ans. (a)

17. The ultimate source of organic variation is
(a) natural selection
(b) sexual reproduction
(c) hormonal action
(d) mutations
Ans. (d)

18. World environment day is
(a) 5th June
(b) 28th February
(c) 5th August
(d) 28th April
Ans. (a)

19. Tendon connects
(a) Cartilage with muscles
(b) Bone with muscles
(c) Ligament with muscles
(d) Bone with bone
Ans. (b)

20. Sewage infection of water will be demonstrated by cysts of
(a) Entamoeba
(b) Escherichia coli
(c) Pseudomonas
(d) Leishmania
Ans. (a)

21. Which type of tissue forms glands?
(a) Epithelial
(b) Connective
(c) Nervous
(d) Muscle
Ans. (a)

22. Eutrophication leads to death of fish due to
(a) Increased O2 content
(b) increased algae content
(c) decreased algae content
(d) Decreased O2 content
Ans. (d)

23. Sebaceous glands are found in
(a) Dermis of skin of mammals
(b) Epithelium of stomach of frog
(c) Epithelium of intestine of frog
(d) Epidermis of skin of mammals
Ans. (a)

24. Minamata disease is a pollution-related disease, which results from
(a) Release of human organic waste into drinking water
(b) Accumulation of arsenic into atmosphere
(c) Release of industrial waste mercury into fishing water
(d) Oil spills into sea
Ans. (c)

25. Which type of tissue forms the framework of the external ear?
(a) Epithelial
(b) Connective
(c) Muscle
(d) Nervous
Ans. (b)

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Staff Nurse interview Questions
Interview Questions for Nursing Posts
1. Cardiac muscle is made of branched fibers that
(a) Nonstriated and under voluntary control
(b) Striated and not under voluntary control
(c) Nonstriated and not under voluntary control
(d) Striated and under voluntary control
Ans. (b)

2. Which of the following tissues in mammals show the least capacity for regeneration?
(a) Endothelium of blood vessels
(b) Skeletal tissue of long bones
(c) Nervous tissue of brain
(d) Epithelial tissue
Ans. (c)

3. Nerve impulses are conducted towards the cell body by
(a) Axons
(b) Ganglia
(c) Dendrites
(d) Neurons
Ans. (c)

4. The surface of nerve fibers bears narrow areas called
(a) Schwann cells
(b) Schwann nodes
(c) Nodes of Ranvier
(d) Nissl’s granules
Ans. (c)

5. Chlorofluorocarbon releases a chemical harmful to ozone
(a) Fluorine
(b) Sulphur dioxide
(c) Nitrogen peroxide
(d) Chlorine
Ans. (d)

6. Noise pollution is measured in
(a) Hertz
(b) Fathoms
(c) Nanometers
(d) Decibels
Ans. (d)

7. Major source of methane in India is
(a) Rice fields
(b) Sugarcane plantation
(c) Wheat fields
(d) Fruit orchards
Ans. (a)

8. Which pigment protects plants from UV damage?
(a) Chlorophyll
(b) Xanthophylls
(c) Phycocyanin
(d) Carotenoids
Ans. (d)

9. Which is not dangerous for life?
(a) Nuclear blast
(b) Deforestation
(c) Biopollutants
(d) Ozone layer
Ans. (d)

10. Pollution indicator plants
(a) are resistant to pollution
(b) can purify the atmosphere
(c) are very sensitive to pollution
(d) are very sensitive to pollutants
Ans. (c)

11. A sewage treatment process in which a portion of the decomposer bacteria present in the waste recycled into the beginning of the process is called
(a) Activated sludge treatment
(b) Primary treatment
(c) Tertiary treatment
(d) Cyclic treatment
Ans. (a)

12. Warm ocean surge of Peru Current recurring every 5-8 years or so in the East Pacific of South America is widely known as
(a) Gulf stream
(b) Aye Aye
(c) El Nino
(d) Mangox
Ans. (c)

13. Acid rain is caused due to increase in concentration of
(a) SO2 and NO2
(b) CO and CO2
(c) CO and SO3
(d) Ozone and dust
Ans. (a)

14. Smog is a combination of
(a) Fire and water
(b) Smoke and fog
(c) Water and smoke
(d) Air and water
Ans. (b)

15. Maximum threat to the world is from
(a) global warming
(b) ozone hole
(c) water pollution
(d) soil erosion
Ans. (b)

16. BOD of a pond is related to in per unit volume of water.
(a) All the plants
(b) All the nektons
(c) All the microbes
(d) All the animals
Ans. (c)

17. The effect of pollution is first and most marked on
(a) Natural flora of a place
(b) Natural balance of our environment
(c) Natural geochemical cycles
(d) All the above three
Ans. (a)

18. If fertilizers are added to fresh water
(a) Plants will die
(b) Overall animal population will increase
(c) Eutrophication will occur
(d) Fish population will decrease
Ans. (c)

19. Which of the following elements is almost non essential for plants?
(a) Ca
(b) Mo
(c) Zn
(d) Na
Ans. (d)

20. The science concerned with vegetable culture is called
(a) Floriculture
(b) Olericulture
(c) Horticulture
(d) Agriculture
Ans. (b)

21. A water-fern, which is used as a green manure in rice fields, is
(a) Salvinia
(b) Mucor
(c) Aspergillus
(d) Azolla
Ans. (d)

22. Which of the following elements is not present in a nitrogenous base?
(a) Hydrogen
(b) Carbon
(c) Phosphorus
(d) Nitrogen
Ans. (c)

23. Although a deficiency of any one of the elements listed may result in chlorosis, only one of these elements is an element found in chlorophyll. Which is it?
(a) Zinc
(b) Iron
(c) Magnesium
(d) Chloride
Ans. (c)

24. Green manure plants used by farmers mainly belong to
(a) composite
(b) Leguminous
(c) Solanaceae
(d) Poaceae
Ans. (b)

25. The principal cereal crop of India is
(a) Wheat
(b) Rice
(c) Barley
(d) Sorghum
Ans. (b)

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Staff Nurse Exam RRB Biology Objective Solved Questions
RRB exam for staff nurses Free Online model question paper
1. Earth originated in the past
(a) 4.6 billion years
(b) 1.6 billion years
(c) 7.6 billion years
(d) 86 billion years
Ans. (a)

2. The scientist related with the theory of spontaneous generation and experiments with swan-necked flasks is
(a) Van Helmont
(b) Louis Pasteur
(c) Miller
(d) Haeckel
Ans. (b)

3. External protective tissues of plants are
(a) Cortex and epidermis
(b) Pericycle and cortex
(c) Epidermis and cork
(d) Pericycle and cork
Ans. (c)

4. Bulliform cells are4esent
(a) In upper epidermis of dicot leaves
(b) In lower epidermis of monocot leaves
(c) In upper epidermis of monocot leaves
(d) In dicot stem
Ans. (c)

5. Who said that organism develop from pre-existing organism?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Louis Pasteur
(c) Morgan
(d) Oparin
Ans. (b)

6. Which of the following gases was not present in free form at the time life originated on the earth?
(a) Methane
(b) Hydrogen
(c) Ammonia
(d) Oxygen
Ans. (d)

7. The simple organic compounds that may have first evolved in the direction of origin of life on Earth may have been
(a) Protein and amino acid
(b) Protein and nucleic acid
(c) Urea and nucleic acid
(d) Urea and amino acid
Ans. (b)

8. STANLEY MILLER conducted an experiment to demonstrate that simple organic molecules like acids could be produced if an electric discharge is passed through a mixture of such gases as might have been present in the atmosphere of early earth. The gaseous mixture he used in the experiment comprised
(a) Methane, ammonia, hydrogen, water vapours
(b) Methane, nitrogen, hydrogen, water vapours
(c) Ammonia, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, water vapours
(d) Methane, ammonia, nitrogen, water vapours
Ans. (a)

9. The first genetic material was most likely
(a) a DNA polymer
(b) a DNA oligonucleotide
(c) a protein
(d) an RNA polymer
Ans. (d)

10. Study of fossils is known as
(a) Palaeobotany
(b) Palaeontology
(c) Anatomy
(d) Ornithology
Ans. (b)

11. The youngest layer of secondaryh1oem in woody dicot stem is located
(a) Just outside the vascular cambium
(b) Just on the inner side of cambium
(c) Between periderm and primary cortex
(d) Just outside pith
Ans. (a)

12. The wall of cork cells is mostly impregnated with
(a) Cutin
(b) Suberin
(c) Lignin
(d) Hemicellulose
Ans. (b)

13. Cork cells are
(a) Photosynthetic
(b) Elongated and participate in movement
(c) Meristematic
(d) Dead
Ans. (d)

14. Dendrochronology is the study of
(a) Height of a tree
(b) Age of a tree by counting the number of annual rings in the main stem
(c) Diameter of a tree
(d) Age of tree by counting the number of leaves in the main stem
Ans. (b)

15. The best method to determine the age of tree is
(a) To measure its diameter
(b) To count the number of leaves
(c) To count the number of annual rings in the main stem at the base
(d) To measure its height
Ans. (c)

16. If the sign was nailed to the side of a tree 5’ above the ground in 1997 how high would the sign be in 2007 if the tree grew 4” taller each year?
(a) 5’ high
(b) 8’ high
(c) 4’ 8”
(d) 9’4”
Ans. (a)

17. Famous palaeobotanist of India was
(a) P. Maheshwari
(b) S.R. Kashyap
(c) B.P. Pal
(d) B. Sahni
Ans. (d)

18. Which types of tissue form the thin surface for the gas exchange in the lungs?
(a) Epithelial
(b) Connective
(c) Nervous
(d) Muscle
Ans. (a)

19. Safranin stains which element of the tissues?
(a) Starch elements
(b) Lignified elements
(c) Bast
(d) Protein elements
Ans. (b)

20. Which were dominant in Mesozoic?
(a) Dinosaurs
(b) Gymnosperms
(c) Fishes
(d) Mammals
Ans. (a)

21. Endothelium of the inner surface of blood vessels in vertebrates is
(a) Simple squamous epithelium
(b) Columnar epithelium
(c) Cuboidal epithelium
(d) Ciliated cells
Ans. (a)

22. The epithelium best adapted for a body surface subject to abrasion is
(a) Simple squamous
(b) stratified squamous
(c) stratified columnar
(d) Simple cuboidal
Ans. (b)

23. The “Golden age of Reptiles” was
(a) Late Paleozoic
(b) Cenozoic
(c) Mesozoic
(d) Proterozoic
Ans. (c)

24. In man thickest skin is found in•
(a) Palm
(b) Thigh
(c) Sole
(d) Thumb
Ans. (c)

25. The fossil remains of Archaeopteryx is a connecting link between
(a) Amphibians
(b) Reptiles and birds
(c) Fish and amphibians
(d) Reptiles and mammals
Ans. (a)

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