Staff Nurse Examination Test Questions and Answers

Q.1) Which of the following set is the evidence of evolution?
(A) Homologous and vestigial organs
(B) Analogous and vestigial organs
(C) Homologous and analogous organs
(D) All of the above

Q.2) Of the following anatomical structures, which is homologous to the wing of a bat?
(A) The arm of a human
(B) The wing of a butterfly
(C) The tail of a fish
(D) The dorsal fin of a shark

Q.3) Which one of the following sets of structures includes only analogous organs?
(A) Wings of butterfly, housefly and bat
(B) Hind legs of horse
(C) Hands of man, monkey and kangaroo
(D) Mandibles of cockroach, mosquito and honeybee

Q.4) Which of the following set represents all vestigial structures in the human body?
(A) Vermiform appendix, body hair and cochlear
(B) Wisdom teeth, coccyx and patella
(C) Coccyx, vermiform appendix and muscles of ear pinna
(D) Body hair, muscles of ear pinna and atlas vertebra

Q.5) The earliest animal to have been domesticated by man most likely the
(A) Horse
(B) Pig
(C) Dog
(D) Cow

Q.6) Presence of gill slits in the embryo of all vertebrates supports the theory of
(A) Organic evolution
(B) Recapitulation
(C) Metamorphosis
(D) Biogenesis

Q.7) Appearance of ancestral characters in the newborn, such as tail, multiple mammals, etc., are known as
(A) Homologous
(B) Analogous
(C) Atavistic
(D) Vestigial

Q.8) Evolution is defined as
(A) History of race
(B) Development of race
(C) History and development of race with variations
(D) Progressive history of race

Q.9) The book named “Philosophic zoologique” was published in and was written by:
(A) Mendel
(B) Darwin
(C) De Vries
(D) Lamarck

Q.10) Penguin is a bird that lost the use of its wings by not flying. Such a statement would express the views of
(A) Darwin
(B) Wallace
(C) Lamarck
(D) Huxley

Q.11) A scientist kept generations of Drosophila in darkness, even after that the flies had normal eyes. This disapproves law of
(A) Natural selection
(B) Acquired characters
(C) Use and disuse
(D) Synthetic theory

Q.12) Weismann cut off tails of mice generation after generation but tails neither disappeared nor shortened showing that
(A) Darwin was correct
(B) Tail is an essential organ
(C) Mutation theory is wrong
(D) Lamarckism was wrong in inheritance of acquired characters

Q.13) What did CHARLES DARWIN publish in 1859?
(A) Origin of Species by Natural Selection
(B) Species Plantarum
(C) Philosophie Zoologique
(D) De Naturien Familien

Q.14) The book ‘Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex’ was written by:
(A) Charles Darwin
(B) J.B. Lamarck and C. Darwin
(C) F.B. Sumner and E. Darwin
(D) Robert Brown

Q.15) Darwin worked on Galapagos finches. The number of species of these finches is
(A) 10.0
(B) 12.0
(C) 14.0
(D) 11.0

Q.16) Which one of the following evolutionists proposed the theory of evolution similar to Charles Darwin’s?
(A) Alfred Russell Wallace
(B) Erasmus Darwin
(C) Thomas Godfrey
(D) Thomas Robert Malthus

Q.17) The ultimate source of organic variation is
(A) natural selection
(B) sexual reproduction
(C) hormonal action
(D) mutations

Q.18) World environment day is
(A) 05-Jun-2018
(B) 28-Feb-2018
(C) 05-Aug-2018
(D) 28-Apr-2018

Q.19) Tendon connects
(A) Cartilage with muscles
(B) Bone with muscles
(C) Ligament with muscles
(D) Bone with Bone

Q.20) Sewage infection of water will be demonstrated by cysts of
(A) Entamoeba
(B) Escherichia coli
(C) Pseudomonas
(D) Leishmania

Q.21) Which type of tissue forms glands?
(A) Epithelial
(B) Connective
(C) Nervous
(D) Muscle

Q.22) Eutrophication leads to death of fish due to
(A) Increased O2 content
(B) increased algae content
(C) decreased algae content
(D) Decreased O2 content

Q.23) Sebaceous glands are found in
(A) Dermis of skin of mammals
(B) Epithelium of stomach of frog
(C) Epithelium of intestine of frog
(D) Epidermis of skin of mammals

Q.24) Minamata disease is a pollution-related disease, which results from
(A) Release of human organic waste into drinking water
(B) Accumulation of arsenic in atmosphere
(C) Release of industrial waste mercury into fishing water
(D) Oil spills into sea

Q.25) Which type of tissue forms the framework of the external ear?
(A) Epithelial
(B) Connective
(C) Muscle
(D) Nervous



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