General Science Questions (MCQs) for Competitive Examinations

General Science Multiple choice questions for GK paper in SSC, NDA, CDS, UPSC, UPPSC and State PSC Examinations. These questions are part of GKToday’s 35000+ MCQs Bank Course in GKToday Android App

1. Saprophytes are the organisms which depend for food on
____:
[A] Inorganic chemical compounds
[B] Living plants
[C] Living animals
[D] Dead and decaying material

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2. What is the basis of classifying various plant tissues as meristematic tissue and permanent tissue?

[A] Size
[B] Dividing capacity
[C] Location
[D] None of the above

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3. Somatotropin is another name for _____:
[A] Growth hormone
[B] Digestive juice
[C] Tear gas
[D] Laughing gas

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4. Which organ is the main digester and absorber of food?
[A] Colon
[B] Stomach
[C] Liver
[D] Small intestine

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5. The type of tail found in Shark is ____:
[A] Heterocercal
[B] Homocercal
[C] Protocercal
[D] Diphycercal

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6. Which among the following disease is NOT caused by viruses?
[A] Polio
[B] Chicken Pox
[C] Typhoid
[D] Influenza

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7. Element that is not found in blood is ___:
[A] Copper
[B] Iron
[C] Chromium
[D] Magnesium

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8. Who among the following scientists used the word Protoplasm first time for living cells?

[A] Purkinje
[B] Robert Hooke
[C] Leeuwenhoek
[D] Robert Brown

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9. Entomology is the study of ____:
[A] Insects
[B] Birds
[C] Fossils
[D] Fungi

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10. The cells which are colsely associated and interacting with guard cells are ____:
[A] Transfusion tissue
[B] Complementary cells
[C] Subsidiary cells
[D] Hypodermal cells

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