MCQ Bank
Which of the following is the type of glial cells that is the largest star shaped cell in the brain?
- A) Phagocytes
- B) Oligodendrocytes
- C) Astrocytes
- D) Microglia
How many major types of neurons are there?
- A) Three
- B) Seven
- C) Five
- D) Four
Which of the following is the foremost, top most, frontal most and frontal plain area of the brain?
- A) Hind brain
- B) Middle sections
- C) Forebrain
- D) Mid brain
Which of the following are the manufacturing bodies in the cell that prepare a very specialized material named as synaptic vesicles?
- A) Ribosomes
- B) Golgi complex
- C) Microtubules
- D) Microfilaments
Which of the following parts of a neuron plays a significant role in forming more connections between nucleus cells and during cell competition?
- A) Cell body
- B) Nucleus
- C) Myelin Sheath
- D) Synapse
The function of ___________ is to clean the cell from debris and move it out of the cell.
- A) Golgi apparatus
- B) Ribosomes
- C) Microglia
- D) Phagocytes
When molecules move from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration to create equilibrium especially in a permeable or a semi permeable membrane this process is known as:
- A) Sodium- potassium pump
- B) Electrostatic gradient
- C) Action potential
- D) Osmosis
Which of the following hypothesis proposes that cells follow their locations?
- A) Topographic gradient hypothesis
- B) The Chemoaffinity hypothesis
- C) The Blueprint hypothesis
- D) The Cell determination hypothesis
Which of the following is an older structure and is responsible for sensory motor coordination movement and balance?
- A) Medulla oblongata
- B) Cerebral cortex
- C) Cerebellum
- D) Hippocampus
Sadaf a 15 years old girl, refused to eat at home as she thinks that she is gaining weight , but the fact is that she is underweight. She might be suffering from _____________________.
- A) Binge-eating disorder
- B) Factious disorder
- C) Anorexia nervosa
- D) Rumination disorder
Which was the first drug to have been identified to have teratogenic effects?
- A) Thalidomide
- B) Heroin
- C) Alcohol
- D) Morphine
Which of the following hormones play an important role in male traits and reproductive activity?
- A) Prolactin
- B) Oxytocin
- C) Estrogen
- D) Androgens
Which of the following is newly evolved as compared to the other structures, and it controls all major functions especially in the higher animals?
- A) Cortex
- B) Hypothalamus
- C) Amygdala
- D) Medulla
Which of the following area is NOT a part of the limbic system?
- A) Cerebral cortex
- B) Hypothalamus
- C) Hippocampus
- D) Cingulate gyrus
Which of the following cleans and insulates the brain?
- A) Golgi Bodies
- B) Nucleolus
- C) Cerebrospinal fluid
- D) Ribosomes
Which of the following was the first identified drug and found to have teratogenic effects on embryo?
- A) Heroin
- B) Thalidomide
- C) Alcohol
- D) Morphine
Which of the following processes preserves the suitable cells while less suitable cells may die off due to limited resources?
- A) Cell competition
- B) Cell composition
- C) Cell depletion
- D) Cell determination
The voltage difference is about ___________to get to an Action Potential.
- A) 20 mV
- B) 120 mV
- C) 100 mV
- D) 150 mV
Vomiting is found in the ____________.
- A) Cerebellum
- B) Medulla oblongata
- C) Medullar Reticular Formation
- D) Hippocampus
The axons grow even while traveling. This is called___________.
- A) Fasciculation
- B) Regeneration
- C) Migration
- D) Neurulation