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common entrance test exam FOR ADMISSION TO Ph.D. PROGRAMME
SESSION ......................
DATE: ........./......../.........
multiple choice question (MCQ) EXAMINATION TIME: 1h F.M:100
Note: Question paper is in two parts:
1. Research Methodology - 25 questions
2. Your Subject related -25 questions
PAPER –I (Research Methodology)
PAPER –II (Subject - Microbiology)
Answer all questions
Part-A & B: Put (√) marks on the write options of the following questions.
2×50=100
1. “One of the methods of logical reasoning process” is called.
a. Induction – correct
b. Deduction
c. Research
d. Experiment
2. Social Science Research ............................Problems
a. Explain
b. Diagnosis – correct
c. Recommend
d. Formulate
3. Scientific methods is committed to ............................................
a. Objectivity – correct
b. Ethics
c. Proposition
d. Neutrality
4. Ethical Neutrality is a feature of
a. Deduction
b. Scientific methods – correct
c. Observation
d. Experience
5. Theory is “a set of systematically related propositious specifying casual relationship among variables” is defined by
a. Black James and Champion – correct
b. P.V. Young
c. Emory
d. Gibbes
6. Fact is “empirically verifiable observation”--------- is defined by
a. Good and Hatt – correct
b. Emory
c. P.V. Young
d. Claver
7. Random sampling is helpful is as it is________________.
a. Reasonably accurate
b. Free from personal biases
c. An economical methods of data collection
d. All the above – correct
8. ................ is “systematically conceptual structure of inter related elements in some schematic form”
a. Concept
b. Variable
c. Model – correct
d. Facts
9. Ethical Neutrality is a feature of
a. Deduction
b. Scientific methods – correct
c. Observation
d. Experience
10. Tippit table refer to .........................................................
a. Table of random digits
b. Table used in sampling methods
c. Table used in statistical investigations
d. All the above – correct
11. A system old systematically interrelated concepts definitions and propositions that are advanced to explain and predict phenomena” ...................is
a. Facts
b. Values
c. Theory – correct
d. Generalization
12. ............... Refer to inferring about the whole population based on the observations made on a small pert.
a. Pseudo-inference
b. Objective inference
c. Inductive inference – correct
d. Deductive inference
13. The important pre-requisites of a researcher in sciences, social science and humanities are
a. Laboratory skills, records, supervisor, topic
b. Supervisor, topic, critical analysis, patience – correct
c. Archives, supervisor, topic, flexibility in thinking
d. Topic, supervisor, good temperament, pre-conceived notions
14. ............................... Refer to inferring about the whole population based on the observation made on a small pert.
a. Pseudo-inference
b. Objective inference
c. Inductive inference – correct
d. Deductive inference
15. Which of the following options are the main tasks of research in modern society?
a. To discover new things
b. To keep pace with advancement in knowledge
c. To systematically examine and critically analyse the investigations/sources with objectivity
d. All of the above – correct
16. Basing conclusions without any bias and value judgment is ...........................
a. Objectivity – correct
b. Specificity
c. Value
d. Facts
17. A satisfactory statistical quantitative method should not process one of the following qualities.
a. Flexibility – correct
b. Measurability
c. Comparability
d. Appropriateness
18. What do you consider as the main aim of inter disciplinary research?
a. To over simplify the problem of research
b. To bring out holistic approach to research – correct
c. To create a new trend in research methodology
d. To reduce the emphasis of single subject in research domain
19. Research undertaking for knowledge sake is
a. Pure Research – correct
b. Action Research
c. Pilot study
d. Survey
20. Evolution research is concerned with ..............
a. Why are we doing?
b. What are we doing?
c. How well are we doing? – correct
d. None of the above
21. Research is a “Scientific undertaking” opined by ..........
a. Young – correct
b. Kerlinger
c. Kothari
d. Emory
22. Research and Developments become the index of developments of country. Which of the following reasons are true with regards to this statement?
a. Because R & D targets the human development
b. Because R & D can improve the standard of living of the people in a country
c. Because R & D reflect the true economic and social conditions prevailing in a country
d. All of the above – correct
23. Survey research studies
a. Events
b. Process
c. Population – correct
d. Circumstances
24. A college wants to give training in use of stoical packages for social science (SPSS) to researchers. For this the college should organize:
a. Lecture
b. Seminar
c. Workshop – correct
d. Conference
25. Empirically verifiable observation” is ..................
a. Theory
b. Value
c. Fact – correct
d. Statement
26. Dietary deficiency of cobalamin cause
a. Rickets
b. Pernicious anaemia – correct
c. Pellagra
d. Scurvy
27. The largest mangrove habitats in india are in .....
a. Andaman islands
b. Sunderbans – correct
c. Gulf of kutch
d. Gulf of mannar
28. Micro biome refer to .............................
a. Genetic material of the entire collection of microorganisms in a specific niche – correct
b. Genetic material of all the members of a genus.
c. Genetic material of all the members of a family
d. Genetic material of all the members of a population
29. The stepwise method for solving problem in computer science is called..
a. Flowchart
b. Algorithm – correct
c. Procedure
d. Sequential designs
30. The “Great Bengal Farmer” in 1943 was the results of which of the following
a. Bunt of wheat caused by Telleria
b. Helminthosporium blight of rice – correct
c. Blast of rice caused by pyricularia
d. Late blight of potato caused by
31. Dolly sheep was created by.....................
a. Artificial insemination
b. Somatic cell nuclear transfer – correct
c. Embryonic stem cell mediated gene transfer
d. Pronuclear microinjection
32. Aspirate transcarbamoylase is inhibited by ..
a. CTP – correct
b. ATP
c. TMP
d. PRPP
33. Total absence of flagella is the characteristic feature of ..
a. Chlorophyta and cyanophyta
b. Chrysophyta and chlorophyta
c. Phaeophyta and rhodophyta – correct
d. Rhodophyta and cyanophyta
34. The laboratory work using computers and associated with web-based analysis generally online is referred to as –
a. In silico – correct
b. Dry lab
c. Wet lab
d. All of the above
35. Peptidoglycan is also known as ...
a. N-acetyl glucosamine
b. N-acetyl moronic acid – correct
c. Murein mucopeptide
d. Meso-diaminopimelic acid
36. Topoisomerase II activity
a. Cuts both strands of a DNA double helix
b. Changes the linking number by 2
c. Requires energy supplied by ATP
d. All of the above – correct
37. Scientist who coined the term taxonomy is....
a. De Candolle – correct
b. Simpson
c. Black welder
d. Davis and Hey word
38. The baculoviruses that are used as bio-control agent act against.
a. Nematodes
b. Fungi
c. Insects – correct
d. Bacteria
39. “Theory of Recapitulation” for evolution was proposed by.
a. A Weismann
b. E. Haeckel – correct
c. De Lamarck
d. A.R. Wallace
40. Which of the largest Zoogeographic region
a. Australian
b. European
c. Palaearctic – correct
d. Oriental
41. Climbing habit of squirrel would be termed as
a. Censorial
b. Aerial – correct
c. Arboreal
d. Fossorial
42. A mountain in a gene that codes for a polypeptide results in a variant polypeptide that lacks the last three amino acids. What types of mutation is this?
a. Synonymous mutation
b. Nonsense mutation – correct
c. Miss –sense mutation
d. Silent mutation
43. Tetracycline inhibits the....
a. Interaction between tRNA and mRNA
b. Translocation of mRNA through ribosome
c. Peptidyl transferase activity
d. Binding of aminoacyl tRNA to ribosome – correct
44. Dobson unit is a measure of
a. CO2 concentration
b. CFC concentration
c. Ozone concentration – correct
d. CO concentration
45. The computational methodology that tries to find the best matching between two molecules a receptor and legend are called –
a. Molecular finding
b. Molecular matching
c. Molecular docking – correct
d. Molecular affinity checking
46. The Bt toxin gene from Bacillus thuringiensis used to genetically modified crops is –
a. cry
b. cro – correct
c. cdc
d. cre
47. Living organisms change the chemical species of an inorganic element by a process called –
a. Biodegradation
b. Ecological – correct
c. Biotransformation
d. Trophic transferees
48. The types of association formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with plants is known as –
a. Mutualism
b. Obligate
c. Symbiosis
d. Commensalism
49. The prosthetic group of enzyme is
a. Family bounded protein with an enzyme
b. Family bounded non protein part with an enzyme
c. Loosely bounded inorganic metal with an enzyme
d. Loosely bounded organic cofactor with an enzyme – correct
50. The process by which an amino acid catabolises its carbon chain into acetoacetyl CoA is considered to be-
a. Glycogenic
b. Both glycogenic and ketogenic – correct
c. Neither glycogenic nor ketogenic
d. Ketogenic
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