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Health Biotechnology (BT501)

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Objective Questions

  1. The condition in which immunity works against itself and destroys the person's immune system called ________.

    1. Autoimmunity
    2. Hypersensitivities
    3. Immunodeficiency
    4. All of the given
  2. A failure in ________ could potentially results in allergy and autoimmune disease.

    1. Immune regulation
    2. Immunological recognition
    3. Immune effector functions
    4. Immunological memory
  3. After applying ________ method, the embryos with the transgene are cultured in vitro up to the morula stage and then transferred to pseudopregnant foster mothers.

    1. Microinjection
    2. Embryonic stem cell-mediated transfer
    3. Retrovirus mediated gene transfer
    4. All of the given
  4. In medicine the transgenic animals may serve as:

    1. Disease models
    2. Knockouts for studies related to gene function
    3. Pharmaceutical production
    4. All of the given
  5. Following are the common causes for secondary immunodeficiency, except

    1. Malnutrition
    2. Aging
    3. Particular medications
    4. Autosomal recessive disorders
  6. Why are antibodies used as valuable reagents for the development of laboratory diagnostic technologies for both clinical research and clinical trials?

    1. Antibiodies are highly specific reagents for detecting a wide variety of molecules in the circulation and in cells and tissues
    2. Antibiodies designed to block or eliminate potentially harmful molecules and cells
    3. Antibiodies are in extensive use for the treatment of immunological diseases, cancers, and other types of disorders
    4. Antibiodies, protein products synthesized by B cells during an immune response
  7. The autologous cell transplanation is basically refers to

    1. Same species transplantation
    2. Syngeneic transplantation
    3. Same individual transplantation
    4. Transplantation from a different species
  8. It has been reported that ________ immunity is only for short duration of time, up to several months.

    1. Passive
    2. Active
    3. Humoral
    4. Cell mediated
  9. The inventor of Pyrosequencing is ________.

    1. Maxam and Gilbert
    2. Frederick Sanger
    3. Pal Nyren
    4. None of the given
  10. In real time PCR, data collected in the ________ of the reaction yield quantitative information on the starting quantity of the target.

    1. Exponential phase
    2. Linear phase
    3. Plateau phase
    4. None of the given