ATPase enzyme needed for muscle contraction is located in:

1. Troponin

2. Myosin

3. Actin

4. Actinin 

Subtopic:  Skeletal Muscle: Myofilaments |
 83%
Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2004
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Certain characteristic demographic features of developing countries are: 

1. High fertility, high density, rapidly rising mortality rate, and very young age distribution
2. High infant mortality, low fertility, uneven population growth, and a very young age distribution
3. High mortality high density, uneven population growth, and a very old age distribution
4. High fertility, low or rapidly falling mortality rate, rapid population growth, and a very young age distribution 

Subtopic:  Population Characters: Natality & Mortality | Population Characters: Age Structure & Migration |
 72%
Level 2: 60%+
AIPMT - 2004
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Duodenum has characteristic Brunner's glands which secrete two hormones called:
1. Secretin, Cholecystokinin
2. Prolactin, parathormone
3. Extradiol, progesterone
4. Kinase, estrogen 

Subtopic:  Gastrointestinal Hormones |
 93%
Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2004
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Cancer cells are more easily damaged by radiation than normal cells because they are:

1. Undergoing rapid division
2. Different in structure
3. Non-dividing
4. Starved of mutation
Subtopic:  Cancer |
 89%
Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2004
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Which one of the following is not correctly matched:

1. Culex pipiens – Filariasis

2. Aedes aegypti – Yellow fever

3. Anopheles culifaciens – Leishmaniasis

4. Glossina palpalis – Sleeping sickness

Subtopic:  Introduction |
Level 3: 35%-60%
AIPMT - 2004
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Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched:

1. Serratia – Drug addiction

2. Spirulina – Single-cell protein

3. Rhizobium – Biofertilizer

4. Streptomyces – Antibiotic 

Subtopic:  Industrial Products, Beverages & Antibiotics | Microbes as Biofertilizer |
 66%
Level 2: 60%+
AIPMT - 2004
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Which one of the following pair correctly matches a hormone with a disease resulting from its deficiency:

1. Insulin – Diabetes insipidus

2. Thyroxine – Tetany

3. Parathyroid hormone – Diabetes mellitus

4. Luteinizing hormone – Failure of ovulation 

Subtopic:  Adenohypophysis & Hypothalamus |
 73%
Level 2: 60%+
AIPMT - 2004
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A major component of gobar gas is:

1. Methane 2. Ethane
3. Butane 4. Ammonia 
Subtopic:  Microbes in Sewage Treatment |
 99%
Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2004
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A free-living nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium that can also form a symbiotic association with the water fern Azolla is:

1. Chlorella

2. Nostoc

3. Anabaena

4. Tolypothrix

Subtopic:  Microbes as Biofertilizer |
 65%
Level 2: 60%+
AIPMT - 2004
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In the ABO system of blood groups, if both antigens are present but no antibody, the blood group of the individual would be:

1. O 2. AB
3. A 4. B
Subtopic:  Blood: Blood Group (A,B,O) |
 86%
Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2004
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