Biology Quiz on Prions for NEET & Medical Exam 2021

Biology Quiz on Prions

Biology Quiz on Prions: NEET is the most coveted medical entrance examination carried out across the country. It is an objective type, pen-paper test comprising 4 sections – Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. The maximum marks that can be scored are 720 marks and consists of 180 questions. 50% of the paper is dedicated to Biology, as the NEET exam primarily aims at enabling students to take up seats in medical courses. Biology is one of the most important and vital sections in NEET. It includes theories, descriptions, discoveries, diagrams, definitions, explanation of differences and relations. Most of the concepts covered in the NEET syllabus are from the NCERT syllabus of Class 11 & 12. In this post we are providing you biology quiz on Prions.

Biology Quiz on Prions

Q1. What causes scrapie in sheep?
a) Proteins
b) Prion
c) Virion
d) Viroid

Q2. What is the latent viral DNA contained in the host DNA referred to as?
a) prion
b) viroid
c) invader
d) prophage

Q3. __________ are the naked RNA strands infecting plants.
a) RNA viruses
b) retroviruses
c) prions
d) viroids

Q4. Lack of coordination and muscle twitching in a disease takes place due to which prion?
a) Cancer
b) Kuru disease
c) Marasmus
d) Tetanus

Q5. In human cells, _______ is the first virus to be cultured.
a) Influenza virus
b) Dengue virus
c) Polio virus
d) HIV

Q6. What is the other name for Bovine spongiform encephalopathy?
a) Mad cow disease
b) Mad dog disease
c) Sheep’s disease
d) Kuru disease

Q7. In sheep ________ disease characterizes pneumonia and demyelination.
a) Pneumonia
b) Measles
c) Scrapie
d) Visna

Q8. Neurodegenerative diseases such as mad cow and Kuru diseases are caused by infectious particles known as _________.
a) prions
b) retrovirus
c) viroids
d) coronavirus

Q9. ___________ is a protein having partial with no detachable nucleic acid.
a) Proteins
b) Prions
c) Virion
d) Viroid

Q10. Which of the following is not a prion disease?
a) Scrapie
b) Lewy body dementia
c) Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
d) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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