MEDIUM
12th CBSE
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

(a) What precaution(s) would you recommend to a patient requiring repeated blood transfusion?
(b) If the advice is not followed by the patient, there is an apprehension that the patient might contract a disease that would destroy the immune system of his/her body. Explain with the help of schematic diagram only how the immune system would get affected and destroyed.

Important Questions on Human Health and Disease

EASY
12th CBSE
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Name a human disease, its causal organism, symptoms (any three) and vector spread by intake of water and food contaminated by human faecal matter.
MEDIUM
12th CBSE
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Why is there a fear amongst the guardians that their adolescent wards may get trapped in drug/alcohol abuse?
EASY
12th CBSE
IMPORTANT
Explain 'addiction' and 'dependence' in respect of drug/alcohol abuse in youth.
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12th CBSE
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(i) How and at what stage does Plasmodium enter into the human body?

(ii) With the help of flow chart only shows the stages of asexual reproduction in the life cycle of the parasite in the infected human.

(iii) Why does the victim show symptoms of high fever?

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12th CBSE
IMPORTANT
Name the pathogen that causes amoebiasis in humans. Give the symptoms and the mode of transmission of this disease.
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12th CBSE
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(a) Why do the symptoms of malaria not appear immediately after the entry of sporozoites into the human body when bitten by female Anopheles? Explain.
(b) Give the specific name of the malaria parasite that causes malignant malaria in humans.
MEDIUM
12th CBSE
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Name the type of cells in which the AIDS virus first enters into after getting inside the human body. Explain the sequence of events that the virus undergoes within these cells to increase their progeny.
MEDIUM
12th CBSE
IMPORTANT
Explain the phenomenon of adaptive immunity with special reference to its properties, activation, clonal selection and its role in vaccination.