Biology
Choose the odd one out from the following terms and name the category to which the others belong:
(a) Newspapers, Vegetable peels, Electric bulbs, Animal excreta
(b) Renal pelvis, Renal artery, Renal Cortex, Renal medulla
(c) Urochrome, Urea, Keratin, Uric acid
(d) Oval window, Cochlea, Auditory canal, Round window
(e) ADH, TSH, ACTH, NADP
Answer
(a) Odd one: Electric bulbs
Newspapers, Vegetable peels, Animal excreta : Biodegradable waste
(b) Odd one: Renal artery
Renal pelvis, Renal Cortex, Renal medulla : Parts of Kidney
(c) Odd one: Keratin
Urea, Urochrome, Uric acid : Nitrogenous waste products that are excreted from the body
(d) Odd one: Auditory canal
Oval window, Cochlea, Round window : Parts of inner ear
(e) Odd one: NADP
ADH, TSH, ACTH : Hormones
Related Questions
Arrange and rewrite the terms in each group in the correct order so as to be in a logical sequence beginning with the term that is underlined.
(a) Snake, Grass, Frog, Grasshopper
(b) Cochlea, Malleus, Pinna, Stapes
(c) Fibrin, Thrombin, Fibrinogen, Platelets
(d) Endodermis, Cortex, Xylem, Epidermis
(e) Morula, Foetus, Blastocyst, Embryo
Fill in the blanks with suitable words:
The technical term for short sightedness is (a) …………… . This defect is caused because the eyeball is (b) …………… from front to back or the lens is too (c) …………… . It can be corrected by using a suitable (d) …………… lens. The power of the lens is mentioned in (e) …………… .
Match the items given in Column I with the most appropriate ones in Column II and rewrite the correct matching pairs.
Column I Column II Spinal Cord Adrenalin Adrenal medulla 44 Number of autosomes in man Nephrons Kidney 46 Adrenal cortex Thyroxine Neurons Cortisones The gene of red hair is recessive to the gene for black hair. What will be the hair colour of a person if he inherits a gene for red hair from his mother and a gene for black hair from his father?