MCQ on Endocrine Glands and Hormones: Biology Quiz

Question 1. Even though an animal is fed with carbohydrates-rich diet, its blood sugar concentration tends` to remain constant. This is on account of the fact that is the case for an animal?

(A) Glucose undergoes autolysis

(B) Blood sugar is readily absorbed by the liver

(C) Hormones of the pancreas cause such a condition

(D) Hormones of pituitary glands control metabolic process

Question 2. What would happen if the pancreas is defective?

(A) Blood pressure will increase

(B) Blood formation will stop

(C) Insulin and glucagon are not formed

(D) Digestion will not take properly

Question 3. Which one of the following hormones stimulates pancreas for the production of digestive juice?

(A) Pepsin

(B) Secretin

(C) Trypsin

(D) Renin

Question 4. Insulin hormone is a______.

(A) Sterol

(B) Peptide

(C) Fatty acid

(D) Glycolipid

Question 5. Insulin is a______.

(A) Fat

(B) Protein

(C) Carbohydrate

(D) Steroid

Question 6. Which metal is present in insulin?

(A) Aluminium

(B) Zinc

(C) Copper

(D) Tin

Question 7. Lack of which substance causes diabetes in a person?

(A) Insulin

(B) Histamine

(C) Haemoglobin

(D) Glycine

Question 8. Insulin is produced by ________.

(A) Adrenal gland

(B) Thyroid gland

(C) Islets of Langerhans

(D) Islets of Langerhans

Question 9. The human hormone ‘insulin’ is produced in _______.

(A) Pituitary

(B) Kidney

(C) Pancreas

(D) Liver

Question 10.  Insulin is a type of _______.

(A) Salt

(B) Vitamin

(C) Enzyme

(D) Hormone

Question 11. Insulin is _______.

(A) Protein

(B) Carbohydrate

(C) Vitamin

(D) Fat

Question 12. Which one of the following is not a plant hormone?

(A) Gibberellin

(B) Insulin

(C) Ethylene

(D) Cytokinin

Question 13. Which one of the following is a plant hormone?

(A) Cytokinin

(B) Estrogen

(C) Insulin

(D) Insulin

Question 14. Insulin is received from _______.

(A) Potatoes tuber

(B) Balsam flower

(C) Roots of dahlia

(D) Rhizome of ginger

Question 15. Extra glucose in the body gets converted into glycogen and is stored in______.

(A) Bile

(B) Pancreas

(C) Liver

(D) Stomach

Question 16. Energy is stored in the liver and muscles in the form of_______.

(A) Glycogen

(B) Protein

(C) Fat

(D) Carbohydrate

Question 17. Hugging and kissing of mother to her baby initiates, which of the following hormone for secretion?

(A) Oxytocin

(B) Follicular hormone

(C) Noradrenaline

(D) Insulin

Question 18. Which one of the following is not a protein? 

(A) Collagen

(B) Fibroin

(C) Fibroin

(D) Keratin

Question 19. Which gland secretes the milk ejection hormone oxytocin?

(A) Adrenal gland

(B) Parathyroid gland

(C) Thyroid gland

(D) Pituitary gland

Question 20. The pituitary gland by virtue of its tropic hormones controls the secretion activity of other endocrine glands. Which one of the following endocrine glands can function independently of the pituitary gland?

(A) Parathyroid

(B) Adrenals

(C) Gonads

(D) Thyroid

Question 21. Which hormone is injected into cows and buffaloes to make the milk descend to the udders?

(A) Insulin

(B) Interferon

(C) Oxytocin

(D) Somatotropin

Question 22. The hormone related to drought tolerance is_______.

(A) Cytokinin

(B) Indole acetic acid

(C) Gibberellin

(D) Abscisic acid

Question 23. What is thyroxine?

(A) Vitamin

(B) Enzyme

(C) Hormone

(D) None of these

Question 24. Iodine containing hormone is _______.

(A) Testrogen

(B) Adrenaline

(C) Insulin

(D) Thyroxine

Question 25. Iodised salt is useful because it _______.

(A) Improves digestion

(B) Increases resistance to diseases

(C) Controls the thyroid gland

(D) All of the above

Question 26. Iodine containing, thyroxine hormone is _______.

(A) Peptides

(B) Ester

(C) Amino acid

(D) Glucose

Question 27. Which hormone stimulates the thyroid gland to secrete thyroxine?

(A) ACTH

(B) LTH

(C) FSH

(D) TSH

Question 28. Which one of the following hormones contains iodine?

(A) Adrenaline

(B) Insulin

(C) Testosterone

(D) Thyroxine

Question 29. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(A) Gastrin – regulation of blood pressure

(B) Oxytocin – release of milk from mammary glands

(C) Melatopin – regulation of sleep

(D) Insulin – regulation of blood glucose