Given below are four statements (a-d) each with one or two blanks. Select the option which correctly fills up the blanks in the two statements.
(a) Plague is caused by .....(i)..... a deadly bacterium. .....(ii)..... the most common form of plague is characterized by high fever, weakness and acute painful swellings of the lymph nodes.
(b) Filariasis is characterized by swelling of the .....(i)..... and of other parts of the body. The disease, therefore, is commonly known as .....(ii)..... due to its resemblance to the leg of an elephant.
(c) .....(i).....is the resistance to infection which an individual possesses by virtue of his/her genetic and constitutional makeup.
(d) .....(i)..... literally means "protection against self"; .....(ii)..... is an example of it.
Given below are four statements (a-d) each with one or two blanks. Select the option which correctly fills up the blanks in the two statements.
(a) Plague is caused by .....(i)..... a deadly bacterium. .....(ii)..... the most common form of plague is characterized by high fever, weakness and acute painful swellings of the lymph nodes.
(b) Filariasis is characterized by swelling of the .....(i)..... and of other parts of the body. The disease, therefore, is commonly known as .....(ii)..... due to its resemblance to the leg of an elephant.
(c) .....(i).....is the resistance to infection which an individual possesses by virtue of his/her genetic and constitutional makeup.
(d) .....(i)..... literally means "protection against self"; .....(ii)..... is an example of it.
The correct option is D (a)-(i) Yersinia pestis, (ii) Bubonic plague
(d)-(i) Autoimmunity. (ii) Rheumatoid arthritis
- Plague is a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and can infect humans by rat flea by bitting and the three types of plague are pneumonic, septicemic and most common is bubonic plague.
- Filariasis is the disease caused by Wuchereria worm and effects the lower limbs(leg) and genitals and by chronic inflammation and hence also called elephantiasis.
- Innate immunity is a non-specific type of defense, which is present in a person since birth.
- Sometimes due to disbalance in genes, the immune system attacks the cell of own body. Rheumatoid arthritis primarily affects joints is along term autoimmune disorder.
So the correct option is"C".
(d)-(i) Autoimmunity. (ii) Rheumatoid arthritis
- Plague is a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and can infect humans by rat flea by bitting and the three types of plague are pneumonic, septicemic and most common is bubonic plague.
- Filariasis is the disease caused by Wuchereria worm and effects the lower limbs(leg) and genitals and by chronic inflammation and hence also called elephantiasis.
- Innate immunity is a non-specific type of defense, which is present in a person since birth.
- Sometimes due to disbalance in genes, the immune system attacks the cell of own body. Rheumatoid arthritis primarily affects joints is along term autoimmune disorder.
