Description : About 6.25 g of haemoglobin is produced and destroyed in the body each day and the total amount of haemoglobin in a normal healthy 70 kg weighing male adult is (A) 250 g (B) 150 g (C) 100 g (D) 70 g
Last Answer : Answer : D
Description : The adequate daily dietary requirement of molybdenum for normal human adult is (A) 10–20 µg (B) 25–50 µg (C) 50–70 µg (D) 75–200 µg
Description : A healthy person eats the following diet-5 gm raw sugar, 4 gm albumin, 10 gm pure buffalo ghee adultrated with 2 gm vegetable ghee (hydrogenated vegetable oil) and 5 gm lignin. How many calories he is likely to get? (a) 126 (b) 164 (c) 112 (d) 144
Last Answer : (d) 144
Description : For a healthy heart, one needs to take a balanced diet, adequate sleep and - (1) indulge in vigorous mental activities (2) play games like carrom, chess and cards (3) do right amount of physical exercise (4) do sedentary work
Last Answer : (3) do right amount of physical exercise Explanation: Physical activity is any form of movement that works our muscles and uses more energy than we use when resting. Walking, running ... and lungs healthy. Physical activity strengthens our heart and reduces coronary heart disease risk factors.
Description : For a healthy heart, one needs to take a balanced diet, adequate sleep and (1) indulge in vigorous mental activities (2) play games like carrom, chess and cards (3) do right amount of physical exercise (4) do sedentary work
Last Answer : do right amount of physical exercise
Description : Which of the following statement(s) is/are true concerning protein/amino acid metabolism in man? a. The major source of amino acids is breakdown of circulating proteins b. The recommended daily ... balance refers to a decrease in nitrogen taken into the body versus the amount of nitrogen lost
Last Answer : Answer: b, d About 15% of the total body weight is made up of proteins, about half of which are intracellular and half extracellular. In man and other animals, dietary protein is the source of ... is exceeded by the amount of nitrogen lost in the urine, stool, skin, wounds, and fistula drainage
Description : The stresses developed in concrete and steel in reinforced concrete beam 25 cm width and 70 cm effective depth, are 62.5 kg/cm2 and 250 kg/cm2 respectively. If m = 15, the depth of its neutral axis is (A) 20 cm (B) 25 cm (C) 30 cm (D) 35 cm
Last Answer : Answer: Option C
Description : Answer: b, c The body contains fuel reserves which it can mobilize and utilize during times of starvation or stress. By far the greatest energy component is fat, which is calorically dense since it ... liver and free glucose have a trivial caloric value of less than 1000 kcal for a 70 kg male
Last Answer : Which of the following statement(s) is/are true concerning the indications and administration of nutritional support to cancer patients? a. Preoperative nutritional support should be provided to all ... total parenteral nutrition solutions maintain integrity of the small bowel e. None of the above
Description : Daily protein requirement of an adult man is (A) 0.5 gm/kg of body weight (B) 0.8 gm/kg of body weight (C) 1.0 gm/kg of body weight (D) 1.5 gm/kg of body weight
Last Answer : Answer : C
Description : The most important intervention in the nutritional support of a patient with a burn injury is to provide adequate nutrition and calories to: a) decrease catabolism. The most important intervention ... the energy source is seen after a burn injury; interventions are instituted to decrease catabolism.
Last Answer : a) decrease catabolism. The most important intervention in the nutritional support of a patient with a burn injury is to provide adequate nutrition and calories to decrease catabolism. Nutritional support with optimized protein intake can decrease the protein losses by approximately 50%.
Description : Daily output of urea in grams is (A) 10 to 20 (B) 15 to 25 (C) 20 to 30 (D) 35 to 45
Description : The normal daily output of Urea through urine in grams: (A) 10 to 20 (B) 15 to 25 (C) 20 to 30 (D) 25 to 35
Description : Can a number of calories be measured in grams?
Last Answer : To be accurate you need to know the ratio of fat, carbs, protein and alcohol. (You can call fiber zero). Each one has a slightly different calories per gram value But you can get close. Fat: 1 ... calories Protein: 1 gram = 4 calories Carbohydrates: 1 gram = 4 calories Alcohol: 1 gram = 7 calories
Description : The mass of a box measured by a grocer’s balance is 2.3 kg. Two gold pieces of masses 20.15 g and 20.17 g are added to the box.
Last Answer : The mass of a box measured by a grocer's balance is 2.3 kg. Two gold pieces of masses ... in the masses of the pieces to correct significant figures?
Description : The adequate daily dietary requirement of manganese is (A) 1–2 mg (B) 2–5 mg (C) 5–10 mg (D) 10–20 mg
Last Answer : Answer : B
Description : The regimens recommended for treatment of chloroquine resistant P.falciparum malaria in an adult include the following except: A. Quinine 10 mg/kg/8 hourly+ doxycycline 100 mg/day for 7 days B. Quinine 10 mg/kg ... 7 days D. Artemether 80 mg i.m./twice on first day followed by once daily for 4 days
Last Answer : C. Mefloquine 0.5 g daily for 7 days
Description : Daily protein requirement of an adult woman is (A) 0.5 gm/kg of body weight (B) 0.8 gm/kg of body weight (C) 1.0 gm/kg of body weight (D) 1.5 gm/kg of body weight
Description : A 19 year-old female is referred following a visit to the dentist where marked erosion of her teeth was noted. She was entirely asymptomatic and her only medication was the oral contraceptive pill ... ) Bulimia nervosa 2) Conn's syndrome 3) Laxative abuse 4) Pregnancy 5) Primary hypoparathyroidism
Last Answer : Answers-5 This patient has tooth erosion associated with hypokalaemic metabolic alkalosis and hypocalcaemia. This suggests a diagnosis of hypoparathyroidism. Conn's is unlikely in this age group, is ... raised alkaline phosphatase would not be expected. Early pregnancy would not fit this picture.
Description : How many calories, carbs and grams of fat should I have per day?
Last Answer : 1500 calories per day. :-/
Description : In a single stage extraction process, 10 kg of pure solvent S (containing no solute A) is mixed with 30 kg of feed F containing A at a mass fraction xf = 0.2. The mixture splits into an extract phase E and a raffinate ... phase is (in Kg) (A) 6.89 (B) 8.89 (C) 10 (D) 8.25
Last Answer : (B) 8.89
Description : Safe and adequate daily dietary intake of chromium in adults in mg is (A) 0.01–0.02 (B) 0.02–0.03 (C) 0.03–0.04 (D) 0.05–0.2
Description : A 53-year-old man presented with hypertension of 150/110 mmHg. He is generally asymptomatic and has no previous medical history of note. He is a smoker of 5 cigarettes daily and drinks ... Adrenocortical adenoma 2) Bartter's syndrome 3) Liddle's syndrome 4) Liquorice ingestion 5) Pheochromocytoma
Last Answer : Answers-1 This patient is most likely to have Conn's syndrome as reflected by the hypokalaemic hypertension. Liquorice ingestion or Liddle's syndrome are again possible causes of ... hypertension (often diastolic hypertension), muscular weakness, paresthesias, headache, polyuria, and polydipsia."
Description : An industry employed 1200 men and 800 women and the average salary was Rs 51 per day. If a woman got Rs 10 less than a man , then what are their daily salary?(mens and women respectively) A) men Rs 25 and women Rs ... Rs 45 and women Rs 55 C) men Rs 35 and women Rs 25 D) men Rs 55 and women Rs 45
Last Answer : D) Let the daily salary of man be Rs’x’ Then the daily salary of a women = Rs (x-100 Now 1200x + 800(x-10) = 51 *(1200+800) 1200x+800x -8000 = 51*2000 2000x = 102000+8000 =110000 X=55 Therefore mens daily salary Rs 55 and womens daily salary Rs 45
Description : Daily requirement of vitamin C in adults is about (A) 100 mg (B) 25 mg (C) 70 mg (D) 100 mg
Description : What is the DeBroglie wavelength of a 1,200 kilogram corvette traveling at a rate of 25 meters per second? Planck's constant is equal to 6.62 x 10-34 Joule-seconds. w) 5.3 x 10-32 meters x) 5.9 x 10-34 meters y) 2.1 x 10-38 meters z) 1.6 x 10-40 meters
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- 2.1 x 10-38 METERS
Description : The actual density of a rock is 1.53 g/ml. You measured and calculated the density as 1.62 g/ml. How accurate was your answer?
Last Answer : (1.62 – 1.53)/1.53 * 100 = 5.89%
Description : Daily excretion of nitrogen by an adult man is about (A) 15–20 mg (B) 1.5–2 gm (C) 5–10 gm (D) 15–20 gm
Description : How many grams of fruit daily will keep the body healthy ?
Last Answer : 65 grams of fruit should be eaten daily on an average.
Description : Crude oils containing more than __________ kg of total salts (expressed in terms of NaCl) per thousand barrel is called a 'salty crude'. (A) 1 (B) 5 (C) 15 (D) 25
Last Answer : (B) 5
Description : The recommended daily allowance (RDA) of proteins for an adult man is (A) 70 gms (B) 50 gms (C) 40 gms (D) 30 gms
Last Answer : Answer : A
Description : Daily requirement of thiamin is (A) 0.1 mg/1,000 Calories (B) 0.5 mg/1,000 Calories (C) 0.8 mg/1,000 Calories (D) 1.0 mg/1,000 Calories
Description : A retired zookeeper owned a huge house with a very large and beautifully landscaped yard. The neighbors of the man drove past his home daily, and admired his arrangement of all the large trees and ... from them. Amazingly, not one person who lived in that area ever expressed any fe -Riddles
Last Answer : The retired zookeeper was also a professional topiary expert. Mixing together the best of his two worlds, he sculpted zoo animals from his fully-grown, healthy, living bushes in his front yard, much to the delight of his neighbors.
Description : The amount of lime, `Ca(OH)_(2)` required to remove the hardness in 60 L of pond water containing 1.62 mg of calcium bicarbonate per 100 ml of water,
Last Answer : The amount of lime, `Ca(OH)_(2)` required to remove the hardness in 60 L of pond water containing 1.62 mg of ... 0.222g` C. `2.22 g` D. `0.444 g`
Description : Pick up the incorrect statement from the following: (A) While measuring a distance with a tape of length 100.005 m, the distance to be increasing by 0.005 m for each tape length (B) An increase in ... ) A 100 m tape of cross section 10 mm 0.25 mm stretches about 10 mm under 5 kg pull
Last Answer : (B) An increase in temperature causes a tape to increase in length and the measured distance is too large
Description : A 2 kg object weighs 1.8 kgf on a spring balance. The value of 'g' at that location in m/sec2is (A) 8.82 (B) 9.81 (C) 10.88 (D) 0.95
Last Answer : (A) 8.82
Description : If the price of burger rises from `12 per piece to `20 per piece as a result of which the daily sales decreases from 300 to 200 pieces per day. The price elasticity of demand can be estimated as (a) 0.5 ; (b) 0.8 ; (c) 0.25 ; (d) 2.10
Last Answer : (a) 0.5 ;
Description : Which of the following statements concerning perioperative nutrition is true concerning the above-described patient? a. Since the patient's weight had been stable with no preoperative nutritional deficit ... feeding catheter should be placed at the time of surgery for postoperative enteral feeding
Last Answer : Answer: a Most patients undergoing elective operations are adequately nourished. Unless the patient has suffered significant preoperative malnutrition, characterized by weight loss greater than ... gastrointestinal surgery, this technique would not appear indicated in the patient described above
Description : A man who makes a profit of 25 percent by selling sugar at Rs. 4.25/kg., lowers his price so as to gain only 5 paise per Kg. In what ratio must his sales be increased so that his total profit may be the same as before? a) 1 : 5 b) 1 : 11 c) 1 : 13 d) 1 : 17 e) 1 : 21
Last Answer : 125% C.P. of sugar per kg = Rs. 4.25 C.P of the sugar per kg = [4.25×100] / 125 = Rs. 3.40. thus, the profit on 1 kg 85 paise by reducing price to 5 paise, to make same profit he must sell, 85/5 = 17kg so required ratio = 1 : 17. Answer: d)
Description : What is an easy rule-of-thumb for ensuring relatively well-balanced daily nutrition?
Last Answer : Michael Pollan, author of __The Omnivore’s Dilemma__ has it down to three sentences: “Eat food. Not too much. Plants mainly.”
Description : What is the molar mass of haemocyanin and the freezing point of the solution when an aqueous solution is prepared by dissolving 1.5 grams of haemocyanin a protein obtained from crabs in 0.25 litres of?
Last Answer : Haemocyanins are a group of proteins.
Description : At equilibrium the concentration of water in vapour phase (C* ) in kg/m3 of air space and the amount of water (m) adsorbed per kg of dry silica gel are related by, C* = 0.0667m. To maintain dry conditions in a room ... which the temperature is maintained constant) is (A) 0.0 (B) 0.2 (C) 0.4 (D) 1.0
Last Answer : (C) 0.4
Description : At a distance of 10 meters form a point source, the intensity level is measured to be 70 dB. At what distance form the source well the intensity be 40 dB? How do you solve this?
Last Answer : Going on memory here….3db is half the intensity. The intensity is usually inversely proportional to r squared. The rest is math, so 70–40 is 30 or ten halves.
Description : The density of lead is 12 grams per cm3. A lead brick has a mass of 1.5 kilograms. Its dimensions are 10 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Is it: w) More than 75% hollow x) Between 50 and 75% hollow y) Between 25 and 50% hollow z) Between 0 and 25% hollow
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- BETWEEN 25 AND 50% HOLLOW
Description : how many grams of sugar is acceptable in our daily diet ?
Last Answer : how many grams of sugar is acceotable in our daily diet ?
Description : A 60-year-old man was diagnosed last year with adenocarcinoma of the lung, and a 4 cm mass lesion was treated with a right lower lobectomy. He now has an ... 2) Membranous glomerulonephritis 3) Minimal change glomerulonephritis 4) Nodular glomerulosclerosis 5) Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
Last Answer : Answers-2 Most cases of membranous GN are idiopathic, but in some patients there is a history of an infection or a malignancy (usually lung) with antigenemia.
Description : Is it OK to take 100 grams of Vitamin E capsules daily for 50 days or 2 daily for 25 days and one Omega 3 capsules for 30 days to increase immunity ?
Last Answer : Yes you can eat , no problem.
Description : What would cause double vision and really bad balance in a normally well balanced male?
Last Answer : answer:My first reflex is to say “please see a doctor”. It could be nothing, but the two together can be a sign of stroke or a transient ischemic attack.
Description : Ten calories of heat are added to 2 grams of water. The temperature of the water rises to a total of how many degrees? Is it: w) 2 degrees Celsius x) 5 degrees Celsius y) 10 degrees Celsius z) 20 degrees Celsius
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- 5 DEGREES CELSIUS
Description : In what ratio must a person mix three kinds of musted seeds costing Rs.65/kg, Rs.70/kg and Rs.105 /kg so that the resultant mixture when sold at Rs.96/kg yields a profit of 20%? a) 1:2:4 b) 3:7:6 c) 1:4:2 d)1:8:6 e) 40 : 8 : 25
Last Answer : E The resultant mixture is sold at a profit of 20% at Rs.96/kg i.e. 1.2 (cost) = Rs.96 => Cost = = Rs.80 / kg. Let the three varities be A, B, and C costing Rs.65, Rs.70 and Rs.105 respectively. The ... be mixed. A:C=4:5 B:C=2:5 The resultant ratio A : B : C :: 40 : 8 : 25.
Description : The cost of Type 1 material is Rs. 50per kg and Type 2 material is Rs.75 per kg. If both Type 1 and Type 2 are mixed in the ratio of 3:2 then what is the price per kg of the mixed variety of material? a) 32 b) 38 c) 53 d) 62 e) 60
Last Answer : E Cost Price (CP) of Type 1 material is Rs. 50 per kg Cost Price (CP) of Type 2 material is Rs. 75 per kg Let Cost Price(CP) of resultant mixture be Rs.x per kg