• 1. 
    Which of these congenital disorders is characterized by an extra chromosome?

  • Turner syndrome
  • trisomy 13
  • Down syndrome
  • tetralogy of Fallot
  • 2. 
    What causes the blood disease thalassemia?

  • parasitic fungi
  • heavy metal poisoning
  • a genetic disorder
  • nutrient deficiency
  • 3. 
    What is the disease German measles also known as?

  • vasculitis
  • sciatica
  • rubella
  • lumbago
  • 4. 
    What is the name of a malignant tumour of the bone, most often occurring in males under age 30?

  • osteosclerosis
  • osteosarcoma
  • osteomalacia
  • osteoporosis
  • 5. 
    Which pioneering scientist received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983, when she was 81 years old, for her work on genes in the 1940s and the 1950s?

  • Rosalind Franklin
  • Lise Meitner
  • Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
  • Barbara McClintock
  • 6. 
    What is Pickwickian syndrome associated with?

  • anemia
  • gout
  • obesity
  • malnutrition
  • 7. 
    Who discovered the major blood groups and developed the ABO system of blood typing, which made blood transfusion a routine medical practice?

  • Karl Landsteiner
  • Elizabeth Stern
  • Joseph Lister
  • Deborah Doniach
  • 8. 
    Who was the first person to describe the blood parasite responsible for malaria and to recognize it as the cause of that disease?

  • Amico Bignami
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Alphonse Laveran
  • Virginia Apgar
  • 9. 
    Which of these viral diseases is also called variola?

  • shingles
  • smallpox
  • cowpox
  • chicken pox
  • 10. 
    What 16th-century physician wrote that “a doctor must seek out old wives, gipsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller.… Knowledge is experience.”?

  • Mary Edwards Walker
  • Socrates
  • Hippocrates
  • Paracelsus
  • 11. 
    Who was the cofounder of modern neurology who greatly influenced a student named Sigmund Freud?

  • Jean-Martin Charcot
  • Nikolaas Tinbergen
  • Eugen Bleuler
  • Emily Blackwell
  • 12. 
    Which hormone regulates the level of sugar in the blood and is produced in the pancreas?

  • insulin
  • estrogen
  • growth hormone
  • epinephrine
  • 13. 
    Which of these is another name for growth hormone?

  • somatotropin
  • epinephrine
  • insulin
  • glucagon
  • 14. 
    Which part of the human body does multiple sclerosis affect?

  • respiratory system
  • reproductive system
  • digestive system
  • nervous system
  • 15. 
    What is the name of the disorder characterized by the patchy loss of melanin pigment from the skin?

  • vitiligo
  • psoriasis
  • ichthyosis
  • eczema
  • 16. 
    If you’re stranded in the Arctic, why should you avoid eating polar bear liver?

  • hypervitaminosis A
  • beriberi
  • pernicious anemia
  • scurvy
  • 17. 
    What determines the blood group in a person?

  • white blood cells
  • plasma
  • platelets
  • red blood cells
  • 18. 
    Who was the founder of modern psychosurgery?

  • António Egas Moniz
  • William James
  • Alfred Adler
  • Florence Rena Sabin
  • 19. 
    Which of these scientists helped in the development of azidothymidine (AZT), the first drug used in the treatment of AIDS?

  • Maria Goeppert Mayer
  • Gertrude B. Elion
  • Anthony Fauci
  • Barbara McClintock
  • 20. 
    Which of these are produced in response to foreign substances called antigens?

  • antibodies
  • antiglobulin
  • toxins
  • lymphocytes
  • 21. 
    What is the common name of acetylsalicylic acid, a compound that produces its well-known effects by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins?

  • RU-486
  • ibuprofen
  • aspirin
  • progesterone
  • 22. 
    What is vertigo?

  • fear of dogs
  • a state of dizziness
  • fear of water
  • fear of closed spaces
  • 23. 
    Which of these conditions is also called “hardening of the arteries”?

  • arteriosclerosis
  • heart attack
  • hypertension
  • hypertophy
  • 24. 
    What type of lung infection is tuberculosis?

  • viral
  • bacterial
  • parasitic
  • fungal
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