The deficiency of vitamin C causes: MCQ with Answer and Explanation

Explanation:
Motor (efferent) and sensory (afferent) neurons are correctly described. Interneurons are found in the CNS, not PNS. So 3 is incorrect.

Explanation:
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, using his hand-crafted single-lens microscopes, was the first to observe and describe living sperm cells, bacteria, protozoa, and red blood cells in the 1670s. Hooke saw dead cork cells, Pasteur and Koch later advanced microbiology with germ theory and pure culture techniques.

Explanation:
Gene therapy is an experimental technique that involves introducing genes into a patient's cells to correct or compensate for genetic defects causing disease. Transgenic animals have had their genome deliberately altered by the insertion of foreign DNA from another species. Biopesticides, derived from natural materials like bacteria, plants, or minerals, are generally target-specific and non-toxic to humans and the environment, unlike synthetic chemical pesticides. Thus, statements 1 and 2 are correct.