Priya Jeevananthan - Get Ahead! Basic Sciences 500 Sbas

Get Ahead!

Basic Sciences

500 SBAs

Priya Jeevananthan

Obstetric and Gynaecology Registrar

Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital, London

Anna Kowalewski

Foundation Doctor, London

Series Editor

Saran Shantikumar

Academic Clinical Fellow in Public Health

University of Warwick

Coventry, UK

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Welcome to Get Ahead! Basic Sciences: 500 SBAs.

The book contains a collection of SBAs to help you practice for your Basic Sciences exam, covering topics in anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and biochemistry. In addition to testing core knowledge, the questions also encompass important problems that are relevant to clinical practice.

Practice questions are the best way of reinforcing knowledge and give you a realistic idea of how effective your revision is. As you draw closer to your exam, it is important to do as many practice questions as you can in order to familiarize yourself with the thought process and to do whole practice papers so you pace yourself correctly on the actual day of the exam. The more questions you do, the more you will begin to see the common themes and patterns that are easy marks to pick up in the exam, which can be the difference between a pass and a fail.

We have divided this book into 10 papers, each consisting of 50 questions with detailed answers supplied at the end of each paper. Explanations have been provided to help you understand the right answer and why the other options are not correct. You should aim to take 60 minutes on each paper, leaving you around a minute for each question.

We hope this book, and its companion volume Get Ahead! Basic Sciences: 100 EMQs, helps you prepare, and most importantly pass, your exams! Best of luck to you and remember to practice, practice, practice!

Priya Jeevananthan

Anna Kowalewski

WRITTEN AND EDITED BY

Priya Jeevananthan

Anna Kowalewski

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS

Neel Sharma

Avishek Das

Daniel Glassman

Pavithra Logitharajah

Chinedu Maduakor

Vikram Malhotra

Ian Mann

John Nehme

Naomi Periselmeris

Donna Pilkington

James Richardson

Ravnita Sharma

Naren Srinivasan

Stephanie Stone

Helen Butler

SERIES EDITOR

Saran Shantikumar

. The EdingerWestphal nucleus is associated with which of the following cranial nerves?

1. CN III

2. CN IV

3. CN VII

4. CN IX

5. CN X

. Which of the following causes an increased anion gap?

1. Diabetic ketoacidosis

2. Diarrhoea

3. Hyperventilation

4. Hypoventilation

5. Vomiting

. Which of the following muscles are not used in respiration?

1. Diaphragm

2. Intercostal muscles

3. Pectoral muscles

4. Scalene muscles

5. Sternocleidomastoid muscles

. What are the caudate nucleus, putamen and globus pallidus collectively known as?

1. Basal ganglia

2. Cerebellum

3. Diencephalon

4. Frontal lobe

5. Neostriatum

. Within which lobe of the brain is the primary auditory cortex situated?

1. Frontal

2. Frontoparietal

3. Occipital

4. Parietal

5. Temporal

. What lies within the sella turcica of the sphenoid bone?

1. Amygdala

2. Cerebellar peduncle

3. Mammillary bodies

4. Pituitary gland

5. Pons

. Which of the following drains directly into the portal vein?

1. Left and right gastric veins

2. Left gastroepiploic vein

3. Right gastroepiploic vein

4. All of the options A to C

5. None of the options A to C

. Pyruvate is converted via pyruvate carboxylase to what?

1. Acetyl-CoA

2. Citrate

3. Oxaloacetate

4. Oxoglutarate

5. Succinate

. Which one of the following statements regarding haemoglobin metabolism in humans is not true?

1. Ageing or damaged red blood cells are removed from the circulation by macrophages of the spleen, liver and bone marrow.

2. Bilirubin is bound to glucuronic acid in the liver and kidney by the enzyme glucuronyl transferase.

3. Conjugated bilirubin is excreted in bile and enters the small intestine.

4. Globin is separated from haem and then converted to bilirubin.

5. If there is increased red cell turnover, bilirubin and urobilinogen excretion increases.

. Severe vomiting will lead to which acidbase disturbance?

1. Metabolic acidosis

2. Metabolic alkalosis

3. No disturbance

4. Respiratory acidosis

5. Respiratory alkalosis

. Carbimazole is within which class of drugs?

1. -Adrenoceptor antagonists