Forty GK questions about hormones with answers.
1. Question: What is the word hormone?
answer: Greek word
2. Question: Who discovered hormones?
answer: Slayden and Swann
3. Question: What is the plant growth hormone?
Answer: Auxin
4. Question: What is the hormone that is effective in the adjacent part of the gland?
answer: local hormones
5. Question: What is the milk regulatory hormone?
answer: prolactin
6. Question: What is the blood glucose regulating hormone?
Answer: Insulin
7. Question: Diabetes mellitus is due to lack of any hormone?
Answer: Insulin
8. Question: Which hormone prevents leaf and fruit fall?
Answer: Auxin
9. Question: Which is the hormone used to ripen raw fruit?
answe: ethylene
10. Question: Which of the following hormones inhibit growth?
answer: Abscisic acid.
11. Question: Which is the emergency hormone?
answer: Adrenaline
12. Question: Which is nitrogen containing organic acid?
Answer: Auxin
13. Question: What is the production of seedless fruit without fertilization?
answer: Parthenocarpy
14. Question: Gibberellin hormone is found in what?
answer: In mature seeds
15. Question: Which hormone helps fruit ripening?
answer: Ethylene
16. Question: Which is the master gland?
answer: Pituitary gland
17. Question: What is the critical or emergency hormone of animals?
answer: Adrenaline
18. Question: What is mixed gland?
answer: Pancreas
19. Question: What is the source of TSH?
Answer: Pituitary
20. Question: Which is the nitrogenous plant hormone?
answer: gibberellin and quinine
21. Question: ACTH stimulates which gland?
answer: Adrenaline
22. Question: Which hormone helps in the transformation of the embryo?
Answer: Thyroxine
23. Question: Which hormone helps in fruit production?
Answer: Auxin
24. Question: The amino acid from which auxin hormone is synthesized is –
answer: Tryptophan
25. Question: Which scientist first discovered the presence of auxin hormone?
answer: Vent
26. Question: What hormones are found in coconut milk?
answer: quinine
27. Question: Which hormone helps in the contraction of the uterus during pregnancy to expel the fetus and placenta?
Answer: Oxytocin
28. Question: Which hormone controls the tropic movement of plants?
Answer: Auxin
29. Question: Which hormone is used to relieve asthma?
answer: Adrenaline
30. Question: Which hormone helps the baby to be born by causing contraction of the uterus?
Answer: Oxytocin
31. Question: Which hormone is produced by genetic engineering?
Answer: Insulin
32. Question: Lord of Prabhugranthi is -
Answer: Hypothalamus
33. Question: GH lack of any disease?
answer: Dwarfism
34. Question: What is calorigenic hormone?
Answer: Thyroxine
35. Question: Hormones that help in insect elimination are-
Answer: Ecdysone
36. Question: Which hormone helps in red blood cells?
Answer: Thyroxine
37. Question: Which hormone helps to maintain pregnancy?
Answer: Progesterone
38. Question: Endogen is known as -
Answer: Testosterone
39. Question: Antidiabetic hormone is
Answer: Insulin
40. Question: Artificial reproduction of fish is used in –
Answer: Pituitary extract