Biology Questions

Trypanasoma is a protozoan animal. It lives as a parasite in the blood and later invades the cerebrospinal fluid to cause the sleeping sickness. This parasite is transmitted by the Tsetse fly.

The hypothalamus which is near the pituitary gland is a small region located at the base of the brain. The hypothalamus plays a crucial role in many important functions including releasing hormones, regulating body temperature, regulates hunger etc...

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. There are about 21 essential amino acids in the human body like histidine, leucine, lysine... The general formula for amino acid is R-CH(NH2)-COOH.

Salivary glands of man are 3 pairs = 6. They are one pair of parotid glands, one pair of sub-maxillary or sub-mandibular glands and one pair of sub-lingual glands.

A cell undergo meiosis, and it produces 4 haploid cells from a single diploid cell.

Hence, the given statement is true.

The inherited traits of an organism are controlled by DNA molecules.

The traits an organism displays are ultimately determined by the genes it inherited from its parents, in other words by its genotype. Animals have two copies of all their chromosomes, one from each parent.

True, the given statement that a myocardial infarction is a heart attack.