Explain why persons with AB blood group are said to be Universal Acceptors.
Name the carbohydrate constituent of ATP and explain the significance of hydrolysis of ATP.

2.(a) Describe in brief the glucose tolerance test.
Name anyone disaccharide. How are animals able to digest grass?

3.(a) Explain the significance of citric acid cycle.
Name the abnormal constituents of urine which are responsible for certain pathological conditions.

4.(a) Give the pH values of any three body fluids, other than water.
Write the name of the genetic or the hereditary material in human beings. How is it different in prokaryotes ?

5. Explain any three of the following terms in two or three sentences each:

(a) Metabolites Gluconeogenesis Isotonic Solutions Lipoproteins Atherosclerosis

6. Distinguish between any two of the following:

(a) Diabetes mellitus and Diabetes insipidus Plasma and Serum Water Balance and Electrolytic Balance

7. What is a radioisotope?

8. Why is the operation theatre uniform mostly cotton based ?

9. Give an example of the use of magnets in surgery.

10. State the law under which the foetus inside the amniotic fluid inside the uterus is protected till its birth.

11. What are the various factors which contribute to heat production in the body

12. What is suction Explain the working of a syringe.

13. Why does a person sitting on a wheel-chair fall backwards when it is suddenly moved Give reasons.

14. What is systematic error? Give one example.

15. Fill in the blanks. To see the objects at varying distances from the eye, the eye lens must change its A person with hypermetropia should use a to comet the defect. radiations activate ergosterol in the skin to form vitamin D. The structure of the ear allows sound waves from the outside ear to travel right up to the inner ear, where these vibrations are converted into The use of air rings and water mattress is based on the law.

16. Write in brief about any three of the following: Difference between Algae and Fungi Endogenous and Exogenous infection Exotoxin and Endotoxin Antigen and Antibody


17.(a) List any four chemical agents of destruction of microbes.
Explain anyone in detail.

18. Given below are the statements. Write if you find the statement True and if it is False in your answer book.

(a) Ability of an organism to cause infection is called virulence. An arthropod with four pairs of legs is called an insect. A complement fixation test for Syphilis is called Wassermann test. Non-pathogenic parasites cause disease. Stitch abscess is mostly caused by Staphylococcus albus.(T/F)

19. Given below are the statements. Match Column with Column and write in your answer book.

Column A Column B
Arthropods which transmit disease Treponema pallidum Syphilis (ii) Parasite Living on the cost of host (iii) Vector

Anthrax bacillus

20.(a) Explain the meaning of 'Therapeutic Diet'. Describe the types of· dietary modifications that need to be made in case of diseases.

21. Write three main functions of nutritional surveillance.

22. Discuss the dietary management of a patient with cirrhosis of liver.

23.(a) Differentiate between food infection and food intoxication. List the food sanitation measures.