Patients who have undergone organ transplants are given anti-rejection medications to-
(A) minimize infection
(B) stimulate B-macrophage cell interaction
(C) prevent T-lymphocyte proliferation
(D) adopt the HLA of donor
The Na+/K+ pump is present in the plasma membrane of mammalian cells where it-
(A) expels potassium from the cell
(B) expels sodium and potassium from the cell
(C) pumps sodium into the cell
(D) expels sodium from the cell
A person has difficulty in breathing at higher altitudes because-
(A) oxygen is likely to diffuse from lungs to blood
(B) oxygen is likely to diffuse from blood to lungs
(C) partial pressure of O2 is lower than partial pressure of CO2
(D) overall intake of O2 by the blood becomes low
The adsorption isotherm for a gas is given by the relation x = ap/(1 + bp) where x is moles of gas adsorbed
per gram of the adsorbent, p is the pressure of the gas, and a and b are constants. Then x
(A) increases with p
(B) remains unchanged with p
(C) decreases with p
(D) increases with p at low pressures and then remains the same at high pressure
In a zero-order reaction, if the initial concentration of the reactant is doubled, the time required for half the
reactant to be consumed
(A) increases two-fold (B) increases four-fold (C) decreases by half (D) does not change
To obtain a diffraction peak, for a crystalline solid with interplane distance equal to the wavelength of
incident X-ray radiation, the angle of incidence should be
(A) 90º (B) 0º (C) 30º (D) 60º
For a process to occur spontaneously
(A) only the entropy of the system must increase
(B) only the entropy of the suroundings must increase
(C) either the entropy of the system or that of the surroundings must increase
(D) the total entropy of the system and the surroundings must increase
At 298 K, the ratio of osmotic pressures of two solutions of a substance with concentrations of 0.01 M and
0.001 M, respectively, is
(A) 1 (B) 100 (C) 10 (D) 1000
Assuming ideal behaviour, the enthalpy and volume of mixing of two liquids, respectively, are
(A) zero and zero (B) + ve and zero (C) –ve and zero (D) – ve and – ve