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CBSEENBI11024903

What is diapedesis?

  • A kind of amoeboid movement.

  • The process of filtration of urea in kidney.

  • A type of locomotion found in Hydra

  • Migration of WBCs into the tissue spaces from blood capillaries

Solution

D.

Migration of WBCs into the tissue spaces from blood capillaries

WBCs can change their shape like amoeba and are thus, capable of amoeboid movement. This enables them to squeeze out of blood capillaries into the tissues. This process is called diapedesis.

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CBSEENBI11024904

Which one of the following depresses brain activity and produces feelings of calmness, relaxation and drowsiness?

  • Morphine

  • Valium

  • Amphetamines

  • Hashish

Solution

B.

Valium

Valium is a benzodiazephine (sedative) that gives a feeling of relaxation, calmness or drowsiness in the body.

Morphine is the main opium alkaloid that depresses respiratory centre and contributes to the fall in blood pressure.

Amphetamines are synthetic drugs and are stimulant in nature.

Hashish is a hallucinogen.

Question
CBSEENBI11024905

Which of the following nerves arises from organ of Corti?

  • Olfactory nerve

  • Cochlear nerve

  • Abducens nerve

  • None of these

Solution

B.

Cochlear nerve

The organ of Corti consists of outer hair cells, inner hair cells, inner pillar cells, outer pillar cells, tunnel of Corti, phalangeal cells (cells of Deiters), cells of Hensen and cells of Claudius. The sensory hair project from the outer ends of the hair cells into the scala media, while from the inner end of the cells nerve fibres arise, which unite to form the cochlear nerve.

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CBSEENBI11024906

Intermediate host is absent in the infection of

  • Plamosdium

  • Trypanosoma

  • Entamoeba

  • Filarial worm

Solution

C.

Entamoeba

Entamoeba histolytica is a monogenetic parasite, i.e., living in a single host, in the large intestine of humans. It causes amoebiasis or amoebic dysentery.

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CBSEENBI11024907

Which one feature is common to leech, cockroach and scorpion?

  • Nephridia

  • Ventral nerve cord

  • Cephalization

  • Antennae

Solution

B.

Ventral nerve cord

The ventral nerve cord is a cord of nervous tissue that runs the length of the animal in the lower part of its body. It is the charcateristic of lower chordates like leech, cockroach and scorpion.