Friday, April 2, 2010

English Vocabulary

Cornu: Any horn shaped structure

Corpulent: Fat and fleshy

Cortin: A mixture of hormone from adrenal cortex

Corse: A dead body

Cramped: Confined or restricted

Cranky: In poor condition

Creek: A narrow passage

Crib: A small house or room

Crikey: An exclamation of surprise

Crock: An earthenware pot

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. Cornu

a. Fat or fleshy
b. A mixture of hormone from adrenal cortex
c. A dead body
d. Any horn shaped structure
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2. Corse

a. A dead body
b. Confined or restricted
c. A narrow passage
d. A small house or room
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3. Crikey

a. An earthernware pot
b. A small house or room
c. An exclamation of surprise
d. Confined or restricted

(This blog is helpful for free preparation of Vocabulary and GRE General Test)
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Further Reading:

English Vocabulary

Bicorn: Having two horns or horn-like parts

Bijou: Something small and exquisite

Blucher: A heavy half boot

Blunge: To mix clay with water

Blurt: To say suddenly without stopping to think

Boggle: To confuse or overwhelm

Boogie: To dance to rock music

Chronometer: Highly accurate kind of clock

Co-axial: Having a common axis

Cognizance: Perception or knowledge

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. Bijou

a. To mix clay with water
b. A heavy half boot
c. Perception or knowledge
d. Something small and exquisite
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2. Boogie

a. To confuse or overwhelm
b. To say suddenly without stopping to think
c. To dance to rock music
d. Perception or knowledge
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3. Blucher

a. A heavy half boot
b. To confuse or overwhelm
c. Having a common axis
d. Perception or knowledge

(This blog is helpful for free study and training of GRE General Test)
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Further Studies:
Instant Immersion English Levels 1,2 & 3

Learn To Speak English Deluxe 10

Read & Think English (Book + Audio CD)

Standard Deviants: Grammar For All - Learning English Grammar - The Parts of Speech

English Vocabulary in Use Advanced with Answers and CD-ROM

QuickStudy English Vocabulary

Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary For Beginning ESL Learners (Practice Makes Perfect Series)

Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder

A Year In the Life of an ESL (English Second Language) Student: Idioms and Vocabulary You Can't Live Without

English Vocabulary

Bathos: Sentimentality

Beadle: A messenger of a law court

Beaumonde: Fashionable Society

Begrudge: To give with ill will or reluctance

Belligrant: Of war

Benevolent: Inclined to do good

Besmirch: To make dirty

Betake: To go, To direct

Betroth: To promise to marry

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. Bathos

a. Fashionable society
b. Deceive
c. Sentimentality
d. To go
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2. Beaumonde

a. Deceive
b. Of war
c. To promise to marry
d. Fashionable society
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3. Besmirch

a. To make dirty
b. Inclined to do good
c. To promise to marry
d. To go, to direct

(This blog is helpful for free study and training of GRE General Test)
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Further Reading:
English Made Easy Volume One: Learning English through Pictures

English Made Easy Volume Two: Learning English through Pictures

DK English Made Easy 3 CD Set

English Made Easy

English Vocabulary in Use Advanced with Answers and CD-ROM

QuickStudy English Vocabulary

Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary For Beginning ESL Learners (Practice Makes Perfect Series)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Mathematics for GRE General

Multiple Choice Questions of Mathematics in GRE
1. Mr. Tahir has 15000 Rs. of monthly income. He spends 65% of his amount on foodstuff. Determine his annual expenditure on foodstuff?

a. 9750
b. 117000
c. 97500
d. 78000
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2. Government increases 25% of the basic salary. If an employee has basic salary of 21500 Rupees per month than calculate his new basic salary?

a. 25200
b. 26875
c. 27325
d. 26775
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3. A classroom is 25 meters long and 15 meters wide. If the width is reduced by 3 times and length is increased by 10 times.Then what will be the ratio between two measurements?

a. 5/3
b. 50/3
c. 50/1
d. 3/10
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4. Four men can build a wall in five days. Then how many men would be required to build the wall in two days?

a. 10
b. 9
c. 8
d. 7
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5. Ten men can build a room in seven days. Then how many days will be required to make the room, if there are 5 men?

a. 20
b. 25
c. 30
d. 35
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6. The sum of two numbers is 27. One number is eight times the other. Find the number?

a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
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7. The perimeter of a rectangle is 100 cm. The length is 20 cm longer than the width. Find the original length?

a. 5
b. 10
c. 15
d. 20
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8. The circumference of the circle is equal to the perimeter of the square and the length of one side of square is 5 cm. What will be the approximate radius of the circle?

a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
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Answers of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) of Mathematics in GRE
1. b
2. b
3. c
4. a
5. d
6. b
7. c
8. a
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Further Reading:









Bacteria

Multiple Choice Questions from Bacteria in Microbiology

1. Which of the following structures is external to cell wall of bacteria?

a. Spheroplasts
b. Membranous Intrusions
c. Prosthecae
d. Both b and c
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2. Spherical shaped bacteria are referred to as 

a. Cocci
b. Bacilli
c. Spirilla
d. Pleomorph
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3. Straight rod shaped bacteria are referred to as 

a. Cocci
b. Bacilli
c. Spirilla
d. Pleomorph
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4. Rod shaped bacteria that are helically curved are referred to as

a. Cocci
b. Spirilla
c. Pleomorph
d. Bacilli
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5. Staphylococcus and lactobacillus are ________ in shape.

a. Bacilli and Spirilla respectively
b. Spirilla and Cocci respectively
c. Cocci and Bacilli respectively
d. Spirilla and Bacilli respectively
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6. Long branched, multinucleate filament called hyphae collectively form

a. Trichomes
b. Palisade Arrangement
c. Mycelium
d. Hypha
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7. A flagellum on bacteria is composed of 

a. 1 part
b. 2 parts
c. 3 parts
d. 4 parts
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8. Directed swimming of bacteria towards various chemical compounds is referred to as 

a. Chemotaxis
b. Positive chemotaxis
c. Negative chemotaxis
d. Both a and b
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9. Which of the following statement regarding bacteria is true?

a. Slime layer is outside the capsule
b. Capsule is outside the slime layer
c. Cell wall is outside the capsule
d. Capsule is outside the cell wall
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10. Capsule is made up of

a. Polysaccharide
b. Polypeptide
c. Both a or b
d. None of the above
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11. Which of the following is the function of slime layer regarding bacteria?

a. It is important in immunity
b. It is important in dextran manufacture
c. It protects bacteria against changes of environment
d. All of the above
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12. Which of the following form a matrix in the cell wall of bacteria?

a. Polypeptides and muramic acid
b. Polysaccharides and muramic acid
c. Polysaccharides and mucin
d. Polypeptides and mucin
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13. Flagellum is an outgrowth of

a. Cell wall
b. Cell membrane
c. Protoplasm
d. Nucleus
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14. Which of the following is the most important function of fimbria?

a. Attachment
b. Transfer of genetic material
c. Movement
d. Both a and b
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15. Certain bacteria can produce resting body (spores) in unfavorable conditions which is

a. Outside the cell wall
b. Within the cell wall
c. Outside the capsule
d. Within the cell membrane
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16. Which of the following are the sites of protein synthesis?

a. Nucleus
b. Mitochondria
c. Ribosomes
d. Vacuoles
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17. Which of the following is required by bacteria in trace quantities?

a. Sulphur
b. Potassium
c. Iron
d. Zinc
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18. Most of the bacteria pathogenic to man and animals belong to

a. Psychrotrophs
b. Mesophils
c. Thermophils
d. None of the above
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19. The optimum temperature range for mesophils is

a. 0-25 C
b. 25-45 C
c. 45-55 C
d. 45-65 C
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20. Organisms that are very resistant to heat treatments are said to be

a. Psychrotrophs
b. Mesophils
c. Thermophils
d. Thermoduric
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21. Escherichia coli divides about every

a. 20 minutes
b. 30 minutes
c. 1 hours
d. 2 hours
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22. Introduction of small portions of DNA into the nuclear material as a result of invasion by temperate phages, shows

a. Recombination
b. Conjugation
c. Transformation
d. Transduction
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Answers of Multiple choice questions (MCQs) of bacteria in Microbiology

1. c
2. a
3. b
4. b
5. c
6. c
7. c
8. d
9. d
10. c
11. d
12. a
13. c
14. d
15. b
16. c
17. d
18. b
19. b
20. d
21. a
22. d
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Further Reading:

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Types of solutions used in Pharmacy

Types of Solutions used in Dispensing Pharmacy:

1. Taken Orally:

a. Mixtures
b. Elixirs
c. Linctuses
d. Draughts
e. Syrups
f. Pediatric drops

2. Used in the mouth and throat:

a. Mouthwashes
b. Gargles
c. Throat paints
d. Throat sprays

3. Instilled into Body cavities:

a. Douches
b. Enemas
c. Ear drops
d. Nasal Drops
e. Nasal Sprays

4. Applied to Body surfaces:

a. Collodions
b. Liniments
c. Lotions
d. Paints


Types of Solutions used in Physical Pharmacy:

1. Unsaturated Solutions
2. Saturated Solutions
3. Supersaturated solutions

Further Reading:
Aulton's Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines

Pharmaceutics: The Science of Dosage Form Design

Modern Pharmaceutics (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences)

British Pharmacopoeia 2010

USP NF 2009 (United States Pharmacopeia/National Formulary)

Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Types of Thickening Agents used in Dispensing Pharmacy

Thickening agents can be classified as follows:

1. Polysachharide:

a. Natural agents:

i. Acacia
ii. Tragacanth
iii. Starch
iv. Sodium alginate

b. Semi-synthetic agents:

i. Methylcellulose
ii. Carboxymethyl cellulose
iii. Hydroxyethyl cellulose
iv. Microcrystalline cellulose

2. Inorganic agents:

a. Clays:

i. Bentonite
ii. Hectorite
iii. Aluminium Magnesium silicate

b. Aluminium hydroxide

3. Synthetic compounds:

a. Carbomer
b. Colloidal silicon dioxide

Further reading:
Pharmaceutical Compounding And Dispensing (Includes video clips CD-ROM)

Pharmaceutical Dispensing