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6. HUMAN HEALTH Flashcards

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1
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Total no of bones in child

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300

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No of bones in skull

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8

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Pairs of Ribs in man

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12

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Strongest bone is found in?

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Femur (Thigh bone)

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5
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Smallest bone of Human body

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Stapes

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6
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Which vitamin functions as both hormone and visual pigment

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Vitamin A (Retinal)

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Bacterial Diseases

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• Dysentery
• Plague
• Diphtheria
• Cholera
• Typhoid
• Poeumonia

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Viral Diseases

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• Common cold
• Mumps
• Measles
• Viral hepatitis
• Dengue fever
• Chikungunya
• Chicken pox
• Poliomyelitis

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Fungal diseases

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Candidiasis
Athlete’s foot

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Protzoan diseases

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• Malaria
• Amoebiasis
• African sleeping sickness
• Kala-azar

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Helminthic diseases

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Ascariasis
Filariasis

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12
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ORS composition

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Sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, pott chloride, glucose, sucrose and water

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Kaashiorkor is caused by deficiency of?

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Protien

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14
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Causitive agent of peptic ulcer is?

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Helicobater pylori

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15
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Sleeping sickness is caused by?

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Parasite - Trypanosoma brucei

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16
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Energy in our body is stores in the form of?

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17
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Enzyme in saliva

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Amylase… helps in breaking down food

18
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What happens to food in stomach

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Mixed with HCL and pepsin
Pepsin digest’s protien partially

19
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Complete digestion of food is done in?

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Small intestine

20
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Which of the following organism does not obey the ‘cell theory’?

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Virus

21
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The fact that new cells arise from pre-existing cells was proposed by

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R Virchow

22
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Function of amylase

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Beaks down starch and carbohydrates into sugars

23
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Function of pepsin

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Breaking down of protien into peptide and amino acids

24
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function of lipase

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digestion of lipids

25
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Which enzymes do not work at acidic ph

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Trypsin and amylase

26
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Exit of food from stomach is regulated by?

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Sphincter muscle

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