1. The fixative of choice for Histopathological examination of tissue is
Answer: 10% formol saline
2. Death from starvation is assessed when
Skeletal muscle is pale and flabby
Stomach is contracted and empty
Upper part of the small intestine is stained with bile
Answer: All the above
3. Blood biomarker for kidney disease
Answer: Bun and Creatinine
4. ATMA indicates as
Answer: Agricultural Technology and Management Agency
5. Major contribution to the National Economy is by which of the livestock products?
Answer: Milk and Milk products
6. Which animal species is more susceptible to copper toxicity?
Answer: Sheep
7. Piperazine is a drug of choice against
Answer: Ascariasis
8. A tumor arising from an embryonic defect, composed of tissues from all three germinal layers (ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm), is called
Answer: Teratoma
9. Milk sickness is caused by the toxin
Answer: Tremetol
10. Fremitus in cows is recorded on the
Answer: middle uterine artery
11. The longest segment of the oviduct in a fowl is
Answer: Magnum
12. While most glial cells originate from the ectoderm, the glial cells that are derived from the mesoderm is
Answer: Microglia
13. A plant poisoning which causes thiamine deficiency is
Answer: Bracken fern poisoning
14. Collie breed of dog is more susceptible to the toxic effect of the drug
Answer: Ivermectin
15. The species in which signaling by the conceptus is not required for maintenance of pregnancy is
Answer: Canine
16. Fresh ejaculated semen from young, fertile stud dogs can survive in the reproductive tract of bitch up to
Answer: 5-7 days
17. The term for a sudden heritable change in genetic material is
Answer: Mutation
18. Minamata disease is caused by pollution of water with
Answer: Mercury
19. Salbutamol and Terbutaline are widely used as
Answer: Bronchodilators because they are Beta-2 receptor agonists
20. Each muscle fiber is surrounded by a network of reticular fibers known as
Answer: Endomysium
21. Pneumatic bones are feature of
Answer: Fowl
22. The largest organ in the animal body?
Answer: Skin
23. Diphallus or diphallic terata, is a congenital abnormality where a male animal is born with
Answer: two penises
24. Retractor bulbi muscle is absent in
(a) Ox
(b) Man
Answer: Both b & c
25. The scrotum is absent in
birds
whales
elephants
Answer: All the above
26. Tusk in elephants is
Answer: Overgrown upper incisor teeth
27. The largest Asiatic deer is
Answer: Sambar deer
28. Which one of the following species belong to the category of long day breeders
Answer: Horse
29. Dilated pupils and a “fish eye” appearance are typically observed in which Stage of anesthesia
Answer: Stage 4
30. A surgical incision into the teat is known as
Answer: Thelotomy
31. The inability of a male animal to impregnate a fertile female, despite having normal libido and the ability to copulate
Answer: Impotentia Generandi
32. The inability of a male animal to impregnate a fertile female, despite having normal libido and the
Answer: Impotentia Generandi
33. Which type of fracture is considered to be incomplete fracture
(a) Hairline Fracture
(b) Greenstick Fracture
Answer: Both (a) and (b)
34. The hormone that lowers calcium levels in the body is
Answer: Calcitonin
35. Hot-cold lysis of blood agar is a phenomenon primarily associated with
Answer: Staphylococcus aureus
36. Characteristic histological lesions of Bovines tuberculosis (TB)
Caseous necrosis
Multinucleated giant cells and macrophages
Presence of acid-fast organisms
Answer: All the above
37. Darier’s disease/Goose Plague, a highly contagious disease that affects goslings, is caused by
Answer: Parvo virus
38. The signal for apoptosis primarily comes from
Answer: Mitochondria
39. The symptoms that are likely to be noticed in a fracture is
Abnormal mobility
Crepitus & loss of function
Deformity
Answer: All the above
40. A ram castrated after service
Answer: Seggy
41. Purely ketogenic amino acid
Answer: Leucine and Lysine
42. Common laboratory animals having the shortest gestation period
Answer: Hamsters
43. Disinfectant used in FMD outbreak
2% NaOH
4% Na2Co30.
2% citric acid
Answer: All the above
44. Which is an imino acid?
Answer: Proline
45. Whales and dolphins breathe through
Answer: Lungs
46. Campylobacterosis is diagnosed by
Answer: VMAT
47. Diabetes insipidus develops due to a deficiency of the hormone
Answer: ADH
48. Teat surgery is generally more successful
Answer: During the Dry period
49. Reverse transcriptase enzyme is present in the virus family
Answer: Retroviruses
50. Agar is composed of
Protein, Lipids, Carbohydrates
Answer: Mixture of all the above
51. Rodent control is effective in controlling of the disease
Leptospirosis
Plague
Salmonellosis
Answer: All the above
52. The zoonotic disease(s) involving birds playing an important role in the transmission
Avian influenza
Cryptosporidiosis
Campylobacteriosis
Answer: All the above
53. Which of the following inhibits aggregation of platelets
Answer: Aspirin
54. Brucella organisms primarily multiply in the presence of
Answer: Erythritol
55. Lobulation of the lungs is most distinct in
Answer: Cattle
56. The number of Lumbar vertebrae in dogs
Answer: 7
57. The nucleated thrombocytes are present in blood of
Answer: Fowl
58. Subacute glomerulonephritis is grossly described as a
Answer: Large White Kidney
59. Calcitonin is secreted by
Answer: Thyroid gland
60. GnRH is primarily secreted from
Answer: Hypothalamus
61. Gasping in birds is a symptom of
Answer: ILT
62. The leukocytes with granules most toxic to parasites are
Answer: Eosinophils
63. Occupational radiation hazards can be prevented by wearing an apron of
Answer: Lead
64. A garlic-like odor in gastrointestinal contents is most suggestive of
Answer: Phosphorus poisoning
65. The extracellular parasite is
Answer: Trypanosome
66. The drug used to experimentally induce diabetes in dogs
(a) Alloxan
(b) Streptozotocin
Answer: both (a) and (b)
67. Superovulation in cattle is primarily induced by hormonal injections of
Answer: FSH
68. Parasite which causes tumor condition in dogs?
Answer: Spirocerca lupi
69. The vitamin known for its anti-hemorrhagic properties
Answer: Vitamin K
70. Traumatic hepatitis in sheep is caused by?
Answer: Fasciola hepatica
71. Protein which is specific for viral infection?
Answer: Interferons
72. Gall bladder is present in which of the following wild animal
Answer: Musk deer
73. The drug of choice for treating hydrallantois in cows is
Answer: PGF2α
74. In which species of animal, the glans penis is directed caudally when erect
Answer: Cat
75. A distinct intercornual ligament connecting the uterine horns of
Answer: Cow
76. Cervix is poorly defined in
Answer: Bitch
77. The antibody that can exist as a monomer, dimer, trimer, and tetramer is
Answer: IgA
78. “Gall Sickness” is the synonym for
Answer: Anaplasmosis
79. Cross between yak and buffalo
Answer: Yakalo
80. Inflammation of the prepuce
Answer: Posthitis
81. Frog like posture in a cow with extender hind limbs
Answer: Rupture of abductor muscles
82. By recto-vaginal method of insemination in cows, the AI catheter is initially inserted pointing upwards at an angle of about 30° to
Answer: Avoid urethral meatus
83. Breed of buffalo not originate from Gujarat
Answer: Murrah
84. Tallest sheep of India
Answer: Nellore
85. The age of Disbudding in calves is
Answer: 3-10 days
86. The best breeding season for horses in India
Answer: Spring
87. Thin layer of peptidoglycan is present in
Answer: Gram-ve bacteria
88. Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas?
Answer: H2
89. Bovine Dermatophytosis is usually caused by
Answer: Trichophyton verrucosum
90. Which of the following is not the property of mycotoxins?
Answer: Immunogenic compound
91. Which of the following is correctly paired
Fruity flavor of milk – Pseudomonas fragi
Musty potato flavor of milk – Propionibacterium species
Malty flavor of raw milk – Streptococcus lactis var maltigenes
Answer: All the above
92. The blue discoloration in milk is caused by the associative action of
Answer: Streptococcus lactis and Pseudomonas syncyanea
93. Most of the Co-Enzymes, are Derivatives of
Answer: Vitamin B complex
94. The end product of Glycolysis under Anaerobic condition is
Answer: Lactic Acid
95. A farmer reports resistance in Haemonchus contortus to Fenbendazole in his Flock. As there is anthelmintic resistance to Fenbendazole what alternate drug can be used?
Answer: Levamisole
96. The lighter level of anesthesia that is not suitable for surgical procedures but helps in restraining the animal is called
Answer: Basal anaesthesia
97. The role of bovines in the life cycle of Taenia saginata
Answer: Intermediate host
98. Rectal pinch smear is used for diagnose of
Answer: Johne’s disease
99. As per food safety and standards (Food products standards and food additives) regulations, 2011 the total urea content in milk should not exceed
Answer: 700 ppm
100. Cholic acid is obtained from
Answer: Bile
101. Curing of meat is done by adding
Answer: Salt, Sugar and Nitrate (or) Nitrite
102. Choose the average boiling point of buffalo milk
Answer: 100.5°C
103. Hook worm vaccine contains
Answer: X ray irradiated larvae
104. Plasma half-life is the time required for
Answer: The plasma level of a drug to fall by 50 per cent
105. Ammonotelic animals which excrete nitrogenous waste in the form of ammonia are
Answer: Fishes and Frogs
106. Conjugated bilirubin level is elevated in
Answer: Post hepatic jaundice
107. The recommended site for epidural anesthesia in equine is
Answer: Between 1st and 2nd coccygeal vertebrae
108. Surgical removal of the yolk sac from newly hatched out chicks for experimental purpose is
Answer: Deutectomy
109. Membranous obstruction of teat in cattle is called as
Answer: Teat spider
110. Absence of moisture in the air promotes one of the following in a dead body
Answer: Mummification
111. Fracture resulting from disease condition is known as
Answer: Pathological fracture
112. The following antibiotic has remarkable activity against mycoplasma
Answer: Tylosin
113. Among the following injectable anesthetics, which one is clinically used as an anticonvulsant drug?
Answer: Phenobarbital
114. Reconstitution of the powders for injection, penicillin G potassium or penicillin G sodium solutions are stable for how many days @ 2-8 °C.
Answer: 7 days
115. The renal stone that does not cast a shadow on a plain X-ray is
Answer: Uric acid
116. The study of sources of drugs is called as
Answer: Pharmacognosy
117. Example of Phase II reactions
Answer: Methylation
118. Common local anesthetic that is used topically on the cornea of animal is
Answer: Proparacaine
119. Consider the following statements about aminoglycosides and choose the best answer
Answer: Tendency to cause kidney damage
120. The demand and supply of livestock products are equal at ____ price.
Answer: Equilibrium price
121. The system of cleaning and sanitization followed in dairy industry is
Answer: CIP
122. Fermenting organism used for Yogurt preparation is
Answer: Streptococcus thermophilus
123. Bilirubin test is used to assess
Answer: The time of bruising
124. The principal anti-microbial factor present in the egg
Answer: Conalbumin
125. The minimum fat present in the ice cream is
Answer: 10%
126. The moisture content for whole milk powder, as per Indian standards, should not exceed
Answer: 4%
127. The most probable sequence of development of a trematode
Answer: Egg-miracidium-sporocyst-redia-cercaria-metacercaria
128. Dressing percentage in broiler poultry is
Answer: 70-75%
129. In Entamoeba histolytica, which of the following stage is capable of inducing new infection
Answer: Quadrinucleated cyst
130. The parasite that is found in the lung of tiger is
Answer: Paragonimos westermani
131. Strawberry foot rot in sheep is caused by
Answer: Dermatophilus congolensis
132. In which programmes, the male dogs are castrated and the females are subjected to spaying, Answer: ABC programme
133. TNLDC stands for
Answer: Tamil Nadu Livestock Development Corporation
134. The HACCP system comprises how many principles/steps.
Answer: 7
135. As per food safety and standards Act, 2006 the concentration of CO2 for gas stunning of pigs should be
Answer: 90% by volume
136. Mature lung worms (Dictylocaulus viviparous) reside in
Answer: Bronchi
137. Histopathologic evidence of rabies encephalomyelitis in brain tissue and meninges includes
Answer: Negri bodies
138. Brain hemorrhage is known as
Answer: intracranial hemorrhage or brain bleed
139. Non-specific germicidal factor present in milk is
Answer: Lactoferrin
140. The specific antimicrobial compounds found in milk is
Immunoglobulins
Complement
Bifidus factor
Answer: All of the above
141. Molybdenum toxicity in cattle is called as
Answer: Teartness or peat scores
142. Congenital abnormality characterized by absence of the lumbar, sacral and coccygeal spinal segments and spinal cord, associated with musculoskeletal malformations of the hindquarters is termed as
Answer: Perosomus elumbis
143. Which of the following neurotransmitter involved in penile erection?
Answer: Nitric oxide
144. The process of removing wool from around the perineal region and base of the tail in sheep
Answer: Crutching
145. Very soft and friable tumors are described as
Answer: Encephaloid tumors
146. Roaring in horses is caused by paralysis of
Answer: Left recurrent laryngeal nerve
147. The end product of protein metabolism in mammals is
Answer: Urea
148. The class of immunoglobulins produced in response to infectious agents affecting mucosal surfaces
Answer: IgA
149. Interfollicular infiltration of tumor cells in the bursa is a characteristic finding in
Answer: Marek’s disease
150. Metallic surgical equipment can be disinfected using
Chemical disinfectants
Autoclave
UV irradiation
Answer: All of the above
151. Rank of India in World milk production
Answer: First
152. The pecten is a comb-like structure of blood vessels found in the eyes of
Answer: Birds
153. Red fever in cattle is caused by
Answer: Babesia bigemina
154. Anal pruritis in dogs is associated with
Answer: Dipylidium caninum
155. Rho factor is required for the termination of
Answer: Transcription
156. Neutrophils are often referred to as heterophils in the species
Poultry
Rabbit
Reptiles
Answer: All the above
157. Brunner’s glands are specifically associated with
Answer: Duodenum
158. The opening found in cloaca of birds
Coprodeum
Urodeum
Proctodeum
Answer: All the three
159. The highly pathogenic species of Anaplasma that causes bovine anaplasmosis in cattle
Answer: Anaplasma marginale
160. Symptomatic anthrax is another name for
Answer: Black quarter
161. Which strain of New Castle disease is used for the vaccination in a day-old chick?
Answer: B1 Strain
162. The pancreas is a
Answer: both Exocrine and Endocrine gland
163. Hassall’s corpuscles are primarily seen in
Answer: Thymus
164. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a country can be declared free from dog-mediated rabies if there have been no confirmed cases of human rabies transmitted by dogs for at least
Answer: 2 years
165. Anthelmintic drug available for both parenteral and oral administration in cattle
Answer: Levamisole
166. The drug used to treat straining animals in case of defecation is
Answer: Laxatives
167. A specific region on an antigen that an antibody recognizes and binds to it is known as
Answer: Epitopes
168. How long after the intradermal tuberculin injection should the caudal tail fold test for tuberculosis in cattle be interpreted:
Answer: 66 to 78 hours
169. In a ‘rabid’ cow, which specimen is rabies virus likely to be found in highest concentration?
Answer: Cerebrospinal fluid
170. By what mechanism does the exotoxin of Clostridium botulinum cause neurologic disease?
Answer: Blocks acetylcholine release at neuromuscular junction
171. Which of the following poultry origin zoonotic pathogen can cause the “Guillain Barre syndrome Reactive Arthritis” in human?
Answer: Campylobacter jejuni
172. Cows that produce beta-casein with proline at position 67 in the 229 amino acid chain are called Answer: A2 cows
173. If milk is adulterated with Formalin which of the following will react with it to give a purple colour ring at the junction of the milk layer.
(a) Sulphuric acid
(b) Ferric chloride
Answer: (d) Both A & B
174. As a young Veterinarian you are called to necropsy a calf that has died suddenly. Initial examination of the calf shows non clotted blood exiting from the nares, mouth, and anus. What is the most important course of action?
Answer: Do not proceed with necropsy due to a possibility that calf died from Anthrax
175. What is the upper limit set by FSSAI for contamination of milk with urea?
Answer: 700 ppm
176. A short period of hyperthermia is advantageous in an infectious disease because
Phagocytosis takes place
Immune body productions are facilitated.
Viability of most invading organism is impaired
Answer: All of the above.
177. A 6-year-old Holstein cow with diarrhea fails to respond to anti-microbial therapy and died. At necropsy, the mucosa of the large intestines is grossly thickened. Histology examination reveals acid fast bacteria in the mucosa of the thickened intestine. What is the most likely cause of these findings?
Answer: Mycobacterium paratuberculosis
178. The best time to manage an open wound is
Answer: within the first 6 hours of injury
179. A minimum fat percent is found in the milk of cow breed
Answer: Holstein-Friesian
180. Blood fluke is
Answer: Schistosoma bovis
181. Elevated quantity of non-protein nitrogen containing compounds in the blood is known as
Answer: Azotemia
182. Jaagsiekte is a slow viral disease that affects
Answer: Sheep
183. A disease outbreak that spreads across multiple countries or continents, affecting a large portion of the world’s population.
Answer: Pandemic
184. Gid in sheep is caused by
Answer: Bladder worm
185. Half of the herd is referred to
Answer: Bull
186. Which breed is known as Merino of India?
Answer: Chokla
187. Organism responsible for ‘Gas gangrene’
Answer: Clostridium
188. Dry gangrene occurs when there is
Answer: Occlusion of artery
189. Miracidium is present in
Answer: Trematodes
190. Folic acid mechanism is affected by
Answer: Sulfonamides
191. Cerebrospinal fluid is formed at
Answer: Choroid plexus
192. The smallest ear ossicle is
Answer: Stapes
193. Water regulating hormone
Answer: ADH
194. Defaunation is the removal of
Answer: Protozoa from rumen
195. The process of synthesis of protein from RNA is called
Answer: Translation
196. Transposon is known as
Answer: Jumping gene
197. Number of base pair units in a single turn of DNA
Answer: 10
198. The acromion process of the scapula is rudimentary in
Answer: Pig
199. In a dog’s femur, the two sesamoid bones located on either side of the distal are called
Answer: Fabellae
200. SMEDI (Stillbirth, Mummification, Embryonic Death, and Infertility) syndrome in pigs is caused by
Answer: Parvo Virus