PART A (Biochemistry)

What is meant by 'essential' amino acids? Give anyone example.

Name three factors which affect digestion and absorption.

Why do proteins act as efficient buffer systems?

Define Plasmolysis.

State the purpose of Benedict's test.

Give the range of glucose level in blood of a healthy person after overnight fasting and after taking meals.

Name the factors affecting enzyme activity.

4. Distinguish between any two of the following:

cholesterol and cholesterol.

Transcription and Translation.

Homolytic Jaundice and Obstructive Jaundice.

5. Define osmotic pressure. Give one clinical application of osmosis for a patient with throat infection.

6. Explain any three of the following in two or three sentences

Ketone Bodies

Coenzymes

Blood dotting

Glycolysis

pH

PART B
(Biophysics)

1. Give the units in which the blood pressure of a patient is measured.

2. Why is cold sponge advised by doctors when a person suffers from high fever?

3. Give anyone use of a radioisotope in medicine.

4. State the law on which the use of urinometers is based.

5. Why does a patient sitting on the wheel chair falls forwards when it is suddenly stopped? Give reasons.

6. What is 'random error'? Give one example. 2

7. Write two factors on which flow of a liquid 2 through an orifice depends.

8. What are the various factors by which heat is lost 2 by the human body?

9. Fill in the blanks: 5xl=5

The capacity of eye lens to change its focal length is called

A person with myopia should use a lens to correct the defect.

The hearing aid which permits a physician or a nurse to listen to sounds made inside the body primarily in the heart and lungs is called

Ultraviolet radiations are used to the operating rooms.

Fluid flows from a region of pressure to that of a lower pressure.

PART C
(Microbiology)

1. Write in brief about any three of the following:

Yeast and Yeast like Fungi.

Aerobes and anaerobes.

Gram Positive and Gram Negative bacteria.

HIV and AIDS.

List any four physical agents used in destruction of microbes.

Explain anyone method in detail.

3. Fill in the blanks:

A strain which is originally virulent but is lowered in virulence for a particular host is referred as

Antibodies are the line of defence.

Phagocytic cells widely distributed in a vertebrate animals are called

Food poisioning is caused by

The arthropods which transmit disease are called .

4. Match the following from column A with column B and write the answer in your answer sheet

Column A Column B

Amoebic dysentery Salmonella typhi

Typhoid fever Clostridium tetani

Tetanus Virulence

Anthrax bacillus

Anaerobes

Entamoeba histolytic


PART-D
(Nutrition and Dietetics)

Define micronutrients and macronutrients.

List the functions performed by nutrients.

Describe the role of food as therapy.

2. Describe the dietary management of a patient 4 with iron deficiency Anaemia.

3. Discuss the measures for preventing food borne 4 infection and intoxication.

4. List the health hazards caused by following pollutants:
Hormones

Antibiotics