Staff Nurse Entrance Questions and Answers
The Staff Nurse Entrance questions with answers section is designed to help nursing aspirants prepare for competitive exams like AIIMS, ESIC, and State PSC recruitment. These exams often include reasoning questions and answers to assess problem-solving, analytical, and logical thinking skills essential in clinical and administrative decision-making. This guide offers well-explained reasoning, verbal, and numerical aptitude questions relevant to healthcare scenarios. By practicing reasoning questions for competitive exams, nursing candidates can strengthen their accuracy and time management, enhancing their overall exam performance and confidence.
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1. Which one of the following sets of structures includes only analogous organs?
- Wings of butterfly, housefly and bat
- Hind legs of horse
- Hands of man, monkey and kangaroo
- Mandibles of cockroach, mosquito and honeybee
2. Which of the following set represents all vestigial structures in the human body?
- Vermiform appendix, body hair and cochlea
- Wisdom teeth, coccyx and patella
- Coccyx, vermiform appendix and muscles of ear pinna
- Body hair, muscles of ear pinna and atlas vertebra
3. The earliest animal to have been domesticated by man most likely the
- Horse
- Pig
- Dog
- Cow
4. Presence of gill slits in the embryo of all vertebrates supports the theory of
- Organic evolution
- Recapitulation
- Metamorphosis
- Biogenesis
5. Appearance of ancestral characters in the new borne, such as tail, multiple mammae, etc., are known as
- Homologous
- Analogous
- Atavistic
- Vestigial
6. Evolution is defined as
- History of race
- Development of race
- History and development of race with variations
- Progressive history of race
7. The book named "Philosophic zoologique" was published in 1809 and was written by:
- Mendel
- Darwin
- De Vries
- Lamarck
8. Penguin is a bird that lost the use of its wings by not flying. Such a statement would express the views of
- Darwin
- Wallace
- Lamarck
- Huxley
9. A scientist kept 80 generations of Drosophila in darkness, even after that the flies had normal eyes. This disapproves law of
- Natural selection
- Acquired characters
- Use and disuse
- Synthetic theory
10. Weismann cut off tails of mice generation after generation but tails neither disappeared nor shortened showing that
- Darwin was correct
- Tail is an essential organ
- Mutation theory is wrong
- Lamarckism was wrong in inheritance of acquired characters