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The RCC question papers for the staff nurse exam:
1. Which of the following sets is the evidence for evolution?
(A) homologous and vestigial organs (√)
(B) Analogous and vestigial organs
C) homologous and analogous organs
(All previous
2. Of the following anatomical structures, which is homologous to the wing of a bat?
(A) The arm of a human being (√)
(B) The wing of a butterfly
© The tail of a fish
D) Dorsal fin of a shark
3. Which of the following sets of structures includes only analogous organs?
(A) Butterfly wings, house fly and bat (√)
(B) Rear hind legs
© Hands of man, monkey and kangaroo
D) Cockroach, mosquito and bees jaws
4. Which of the following series represents all the vestigial structures of the human body?
(A) vermiform appendix, body hair and cochlea
B) Wisdom, coccyx and patella teeth
C) Coccyx, vermiform appendix and auricular hall muscles (√)
(D) Body of hair, pinna ear muscles and atlas vertebra
5. The earliest animal that has been domesticated by humans is probably the
(a horse
(B) Pork
© Dog (√)
(D) Cow
6. Presence of gill slit in the embryo of all vertebrates supports the theory of
(A) Organic evolution
B) Recapitulation (√)
© Metamorphosis
(D) Biogenesis
7. The appearance of ancestral characters in the new birth, such as tail, multiple breasts, etc., are known as
(A) Counterpart
(B) Analog
© Atavistic (√)
(D) Vestigial
8. Evolution is defined as
(A) History of the breed
B) Development of the breed
© History and development of the breed with variations (√)
(D) Progressive History of Race
9. The book entitled "Philosophic zoologique" was published in 1809 and was written by:
(A) Mendel
(B) Darwin
© De Vries
D) Lamarck (√)
10. The penguin is a bird that lost the use of its wings for not flying. Such a statement would
(A) Darwin
(B) Wallace
C) Lamarck (√)
(D) Huxley
11. A scientist kept 80 generations of Drosophila in the dark, even after the flies had normal eyes. This disapproves of the
A) Natural selection
(B) Acquired characters (√)
C) Use and disuse
D) Synthetic theory
12. Weismann cut the tails of the mice generation after generation but the tails did not disappear nor shortened showing that
(A) Darwin was correct
(B) The tail is an essential organ
© The theory of mutation is incorrect
(D) Lamarckism was wrong in the inheritance of acquired characters (√)
13. What did CHARLES DARWIN publish in 1859?
(A) Origin of species by natural selection (√)
(B) Plantarum species
© Zoological Philosophy
(D) From Naturien Familien
14. The book 'Descent of man and selection in relation to sex' was written by:
(A) Charles Darwin (√)
(B) J.B. Lamarck and C. Darwin
© F.B. Sumner and E. Darwin
(D) Robert Brown
15. Darwin worked on the Galápagos finches. The number of species of these finches is
(A) 10
(B) 12
© 14 (√)
D) 11
16. Which of the following evolutionists proposed the theory of evolution similar to
Charles Darwin?
(A) Alfred Russell Wallace (√)
(B) Erasmus Darwin
© Thomas Godfrey
(D) Thomas Robert Malthus
17. The ultimate source of organic variation is
(A) natural selection
(B) sexual reproduction
© hormonal action
(D) mutations (√)
18. World Environment Day is
(A) June 5 (√)
(B) February 28
© August 5
(D) April 28
19. The tendon connects
(A) Cartilage with muscles
(B) Bone with muscles (√)
© Ligament with muscles
(D) Bone with bone
20. Water wastewater infection will be demonstrated by cysts of
(A) Entamoeba (√)
(B) Escherichia coli
© Pseudomonas
(D) Leishmania
21. What kind of tissue forms the glands?
(A) Epithelial (√)
(B) Connective
© Nervous
(D) Muscle
22. Eutrophication causes the death of fish because of
(A) Higher O2 content
B) increase in algae content
© decrease in algae content
D) Decrease in O2 content (√)
23. The sebaceous glands are found in
(A) Mammalian skin dermis (√)
(B) Epithelium of the frog's stomach
© Frog intestinal epithelium
(D) Mammalian skin epidermis
24. Minamata disease is a disease related to pollution,
(A) Release of human organic waste into drinking water
(B) Accumulation of arsenic in the atmosphere
C) Release of industrial waste of mercury in fishing water (√)
D) Oil spills in the sea
25. What type of tissue forms the outer ear frame?
(A) Epithelial
(B) Connective (√)
© Muscle
(D) Nervous