Biology Questions

The processes both osmosis and diffusion come under passive transport and require no energy. The movement of solute from the region of higher concentration to the region of lower concentration is nothing but diffusion.

Antipsychotic drugs have proved helpful in the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, inhibits dopamine, reduces delusions, hallucinations, thought disorganization.

Single selled organisms are also known as Unicellular organisms in which they have only one cell.

Examples are :: Fungi, Algae, Amaeba, Paramaecium,...

Hence, all the above given options are single selled organisms.

Vitiligo is a condition in which the skin loses its pigment cells (melanocytes). This can result in discolored patches in different areas of the body, including the skin, hair, retina and mucous membranes.

Many disorders have been linked to vitiligo. They are::

Hashimoto thyroiditis,

Graves disease,

Addison disease and

diabetes mellitus,

alopecia areata,

pernicious anemia,

inflammatory bowel disease,

psoriasis, and

autoimmune polyglandular syndrome.

Aldosterone is a steroid hormone that is produced in the adrenal gland. It is useful and more essential for the conservation of sodium content in the kidney, salivary glands, colon and sweat glands.

Here, Aldosterone increases sodium reabsorption by increasing the number of Na+-K+ ATPase pumps in the luminal membrane of the proximal tubule is the only option that is NOT correct about aldosterone.