Quiz  /  NEET MCQ on Muscular Dystrophy

  • 1. 
    One of the ways scientists suggest to find a treatment for

  • replacing muscles
  • create customized diets for them to be healthier and stronger
  • attempt to correct defective genes so it creates the right proteins
  • none of these

  • 2. 
    Define muscular dystrophy

  • Diseases which destruct the muscles of the body
  • diseases which cause the muscles to get disproportionate
  • born with too many or too little muscles
  • diseases which do not allow muscles to grow

  • 3. 
    Muscular dystrophy can affect

  • Only humans
  • Only animals
  • Both animals and humans
  • Only plants

  • 4. 
    Another way that scientists propose as a treatment to cure muscular dystrophy is

  • Removal of defective genes
  • Replacing defective genes after removing with parents genes again
  • Discovering chemicals which can substitute the missing chemical
  • none of these

  • 5. 
    _____________ is not a form of muscular dystrophy

  • Lunar dystrophy
  • Myotonic dystrophy
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy

  • 6. 
    The protein whose production gets affected in Duchenne muscular dystrophy is

  • Actin
  • Myotropin
  • Dystrophin
  • Leucovorin

  • 7. 
    The gene responsible for causing Duchenne muscular dystrophy is found on

  • Y chromosome
  • X chromosome
  • Autosomal chromosome number 5
  • Autosomal chromosome number 8

  • 8. 
    The enzyme, whose blood levels is increased in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy is

  • Carbonic anhydrase
  • Dystrophin kinase
  • Adenosine triphosphate
  • Creatinine phosphokinase

  • 9. 
    Duchenne muscular dystrophy can be cured with

  • Allopurinol
  • Creatinine phosphokinase inhibitors
  • Corticosteroids
  • None of these

  • 10. 
    The involvement of this muscle affects the breathing in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

  • Triceps
  • Biceps
  • Diaphragm
  • Quadriceps
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