Vitamin-K is required for 

1. change of prothrombin to thrombin

2. synthesis of prothrombin

3. change of fibrinogen to fibrin

4. formation of thromboplastin

Oxalates and citrates are used as anticoagulants in stored blood because they:

1. Chelate calcium ions

2. Act as competitive inhibitors of vitamin K

3. Potentiate anti-thrombin III

4. Activate heparin

Choose the correct order for the steps of hemostasis:

1. Blood coagulation, platelet plug formation, blood vessel spasm

2. Platelet plug formation, blood coagulation, blood vessel spasm

3. Blood vessel spasm, platelet plug formation, blood coagulation

4. Blood vessel spasm, blood coagulation, platelet plug formation

Name the blood cells, whose reduction in number can cause clotting disorder, leading to excessive loss of blood from the body.

(1) Erythrocytes                       

(2) Leucocytes

(3) Neutrophils                         

(4) Thrombocytes

Which of the following is known as Christmas factor?

1. factor VIII               

2. factor XII

3. factor IV                 

4. factor IX

The component of blood which prevents its coagulation in the blood vessels is

(1) haemoglobin

(2) plasma

(3) thrombin

(4) heparin.

You are required to draw blood from a patient and to keep it in a test tube for analysis of blood corpuscles and plasma. You are also provided with the following four types of test tubes. Which of these will you not use for the purpose?

(1) Test tube containing calcium bicarbonate

(2) Chilled test tube

(3) Test tube containing heparin

(4) Test tube containing sodium oxalate

Which of the following diseases is also called Christmas disease?

(1) Sickle-cell anaemia

(2) Haemoglobinuria

(3) Myocardial infarction

(4) Haemophilia-B

Which one of the following vitamins is anti-haemorrhagic?

(1) Vitamin B₁₂               

(2) Vitamin B₅

(3) Vitamin C                   

(4) Vitamin K

Which of the following matches correctly?

(1) Factor II - Thromboplastin

(2) Factor III - Prothrombin

(3) Factor VIII - Antihaemophilic globulin

(4) Factor XII - Haemophilic