INTERNAL EXAMINATION

POST BASIC NURSING FIRST Year

SUBJECT- BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

TIME-3 HOUR MARKS-75

NOTE: ALL QUSTIONS ARE COMPULSARY

General Instructions

 All questions are compulsory

 Explain with diagrams where required
 The number on the right indicates full marks.
 Be to the point.

LONG ESSAY QUESTIONS (2x15=30marks)

Q1. a) Define Gluconeogenesis. 3marks

b) Write In details the pathway and regulation of Gluconeogenesis. 12marks

Q2. a) Write about focusing elements of the eye, defective vision and its correction. 12marks

b) Laws of reflection. 3marks

Q3.SHORT NOTE QUESTIONS (Any five) (5x5=25 marks)

a)Urea cycle

b) Blood glucose and it's regulation

c) Plasma proteins and their functions

d)Regulation of body temperature

e)Use of light therapy

f) Principles of machines

Q4.SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (10x2=20 marks)

a)Water and fluid balance

b)Enzyme

c) Temperature scale

d)Relative Humidity

e)Force

f)Write the source of potassium

g)Speed

h)Write normal values of blood glucose during fasting and postprandial state.

i)Simple pulleys

j)What is the difference between Mass and Weight?