TS SENIOR INTER

SUB: ZOOLOGY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

I VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
QUESTION NO-1

1) Give the dental formula of adult human beings?

2) Explain the terms thecodont and diphyodont dentitions

3) What is auto catalysis? Give two examples.

4) What is chyme?

5) Name the different types of salivary glands of man and their locations in the human body?

6) Name different types of papillae present on the tongue of man?

QUESTION NO-2

1) Name the blood vessels that enter and exit the kidney.

2) What are the columns of Bertin?

3) Define glomerular filtration?

4) What is juxtaglomerular apparatus?

5) What is the role of atrial natriuretic peptide in the regulation of urine formation?
QUESTION NO-3

1) What is a ‘motor unit’ with reference to muscle and nerve?

2) What is triad system?

3) Write the difference between actin and myosin.

4) Distinguish between red muscle fibers and white muscle fibers.

5) Name the keystone bone of the cranium. Where is it located?

6) Name the ear ossicles and their evolutionary origin in human beings.

7) Name the type of joint between a) cranial bones b) Inter – tarsal joint.
QUESTION NO-4

1) What is corpus callosum?

2) What do you know about arbor vitae?

3) What is all-or-none principle?

4) Distinguish between the blind spot and the yellow spot.

5) What is organ of Corti?

QUESTION NO-5

1) What is acromegaly? Name the hormone responsible for this disorder

2) Distinguish between diabetes insipidus and diabetes mellitus.
3) Which hormone is commonly known as fight and flight hormone?
4) What is erythropoietin? What is its function?
QUESTION NO-6
1) Differentiate between mature B-cells and functional B-cells
2) “Colostrum is very much essential for the new born infants”. Justify
3) “More and more people in metrocities of india are prone to allergies.”Justify
4) What are autoimmune disorders? Give any two examples.
5) How can the graft rejections be avoided in patients?
QUESTION NO-7

1) What are the measures one has to take to prevent contacting STDs?

2) What in your view are the reasons for population explosion, especially in India?

3) What is ‘amniocentesis’? Name any two disorders that can be detected by amniocentesis.
QUESTION NO-8

1) Define prebiotic soup. Who coined this term?

2) Define Biogenetic Law, giving an example.

3) Define atavism with an example.

4) Cite two examples to disprove Lamarck’s inheritance of acquired characters

5) What is meant by genetic load? Give an example.

6) Distinguish between allopatric and sympatric speciations.

7) Mention the scientific names of ape-like man and man-like earlier primates. Which manlike
primate first used hides to cover the bodies?
QUESTION NO-9

1) Distinguish between out-cross and cross-breed.

2) What is apiculture?

3) Explain the term hypophysation.

4) List out any two Indian carps and two exotic carps.

5) What does ADA stand for? Deficiency of ADA causes which disease?
QUESTION NO-10

1) What is popularly called ‘Guardian Angel of Cell’s Genome’?

2) MRI scan is harmless – Justify.

3) What is electrocardiography and what are the normal components of ECG?

4) Which substances in a sample are detected by direct and indirect ELISA respectively?
II . SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
QUESTION NO-11

1) Draw a neat labeled diagram of L.S. of a tooth?

2) Describe the process of digestion of proteins in the stomach?

3) What are the functions of liver?

QUESTION NO-12

1) What are the major transport mechanisms for CO2? Explain.

2) How is respiratory movements regulated in man?

3) Describe disorders of respiratory system .

QUESTION NO-13

1) Draw a labeled diagram of the T.S of the spinal cord of man.

2) Give an account of the retina of the human eye.

3) Give an account of synaptic transmission.

4) List out the differences between sympathetic and parasympathetic neural systems in man.
QUESTION NO-14

1) Give an account of the secretions of pituitary gland.

2) Compare a ‘pituitary dwarf’ and a ‘thyroid dwarf’ in respect of similarities and dissimilarities they
possess.

3) Write a note on Addison’s disease and Cushing’s syndrome?

4) Write a note on the mechanism of action of hormones.

QUESTION NO-15

1) Write short notes on B-cells

2) Write short notes on immunoglobulins.

3) Explain the mechanism of humoral immunity.

4) Explain the mechanism of cell mediated immunity.

5) Explain the mechanism by which HIV multiplies and leads to AIDS

QUESTION NO-16

1) Describe erythroblastosis foetalis

2) Describe male heterogamety .

3) Describe female heterogamety .

4) Describe the Genic Balance Theory of sex determination.

5) Write the salient features of ‘HGP’

QUESTION NO-17
1) Distinguish between homologous and analogous organs.

2) Write a short note on the theory of mutations.

3) Explain Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection with industrial melanism as an experimental proof.

4) What is meant by genetic drift? Explain genetic drift citing the example of Founder Effect
QUESTION NO-18

1) List out the various steps involved in MOET.

2) Discuss in brief about ‘Avian Flu’.

3) Explain in brief about queen bee.

4) Explain in brief, the structure of insulin.

5) Write in brief the types of gene therapy.

6) List out any four salient features of cancer cells.

7) Explain the different types of cancers

8) Write briefly about different waves and intervals in an ECG.

III . LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
QUESTION NO-19

1) Describe the structure of the heart of man with the help of neat labeled diagram.

2) Write notes on the working of the heart of man?

QUESTION NO-20
1) Describe female reproductive system of a woman with the help of a labelled diagram.
2) Describe male reproductive system of a man. Draw a labelled diagram of it.p
QUESTION NO-21

1) What are multiple alleles? Describe multiple alleles with the help of ABO blood groups in man.

2) Describe chromosomal theory of sex determination.

3) What is crisscross inheritance? Explain the inheritance of one sex linked recessive character in
human beings.

4) What is DNA fingerprinting? Mention its applications