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Multiple Choice Questions
Multiple Choice Questions
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following can be made into crystal?
(a) A Bacterium
(b) An Amoeba
(c) A Virus
(d) A Sperm
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5. Which of these is not related to endoplasmic reticulum?
(a) It behaves as transport channel for proteins between nucleus and
cytoplasm
(b) It transports materials between various regions in cytoplasm
(c) It can be the site of energy generation
(d) It can be the site for some biochemical activities of the cell
6. Following are a few definitions of osmosis
Read carefully and select the correct definition
(a) Movement of water molecules from a region of higher concentration to
a region of lower concentration through a semipermeable membrane
(b) Movement of solvent molecules from its higher concentration to lower
concentration
(c) Movement of solvent molecules from higher concentration to lower
concentration of solution through a permeable membrane
(d) Movement of solute molecules from lower concentration to higher
concentration of solution through a semipermeable membrane
7. Plasmolysis in a plant cell is defined as
(a) break down (lysis ) of plasma membrane in hypotonic medium
(b) shrinkage of cytoplasm in hypertonic medium
(c) shrinkage of nucleoplasm
(d) none of them
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11. Which cell organelle plays a crucial role in detoxifying many poisons and
drugs in a cell?
(a) Golgi apparatus
(b) Lysosomes
(c) Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
(d) Vacuoles
12. The proteins and lipids, essential for building the cell membrane, are
manufactured by
(a) rough endoplasmic reticulum
(b) golgi apparatus
(c) plasma membrane
(d) mitochondria
14. The cell organelle involved in forming complex sugars from simple sugars are
(a) endoplasmic reticulum
(b) ribosomes
(c) plastids
(d) golgi apparatus
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18. Silver nitrate solution is used to study
(a) endoplasmic reticulum
(b) golgi apparatus
(c) nucleus
(d) mitochondria
19. Organelle other than nucleus, containing DNA is
(a) endoplasmic reticulum
(b) golgi apparatus
(c) mitochondria
(d) lysosome
20. Kitchen of the cell is
(a) mitochondria
(b) endoplasmic reticulum
(c) chloroplast
(d) golgi apparatus
21. Lipid molecules in the cell are sythesized by
(a) smooth endoplasmic reticulum
(b) rough endoplasmic reticulum
(c) golgi apparatus
(d) plastids
22. Cell arises from pre-existing cell was stated by
(a) Haeckel
(b) Virchow
(c) Hooke
(d) Schleiden
23. Cell theory was given by
(a) Schleiden and Schwann
(b) Virchow
(c) Hooke
(d) Haeckel
24. The only cell organelle seen in prokaryotic cell is
(a) mitochondria
(b) ribosomes
(c) plastids
(d) lysosomes
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26. 1 µm is
(a) 10–6 m
(b) 10–9 m
(c) 10–10 m
(d) 10–3 m
31. Do you agree that “A cell is a building unit of an organism”. If yes, explain
why?
32. Why does the skin of your finger shrink when you wash clothes for a long
time?
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37. If you are provided with some vegetables to cook. You generally add salt
into the vegetables during cooking process. After adding salt, vegetables
release water. What mechanism is responsible for this?
38. If cells of onion peel and RBC are separately kept in hypotonic solution,
what among the following will take place? Explain the reason for your
answer.
(a) Both the cells will swell.
(b) RBC will burst easily while cells of onion peel will resist the bursting to
some extent.
(c) a and b both are correct.
(d) RBC and onion peel cells will behave similarly.
39. Bacteria do not have chloroplast but some bacteria are photoautorophic
in nature and perform photosynthesis. Which part of bacterial cell performs
this?
40. Match the following A and B
(A) (B)
(a) Smooth endoplasmic reticulum (i) Amoeba
(b) Lysosome (ii) Nucleus
(c) Nucleoid (iii) Bacteria
(d) Food vacuoles (iv) Detoxification
(e) Chromatin material (v) Suicidal bag
and nucleolus
41. Write the name of different plant parts in which chromoplast, chloroplast
and leucoplast are present.
42. Name the organelles which show the analogy written as under
(a) Transporting channels of the cell——
(b) Power house of the cell——
(c) Packaging and dispatching unit of the cell——
(d) Digestive bag of the cell——
(e) Storage sacs of the cell——
(f) Kitchen of the cell——
(g) Control room of the cell——
43. How is a bacterial cell different from an onion peel cell?
44. How do substances like carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) move in and
out of the cell?
45. How does amoeba obtain its food?
46. Name the two organelles in a plant cell that contain their own genetic
material and ribosomes.
48. Which cell organelle controls most of the activities of the cell?
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49. Which kind of plastid is more common in
(a) roots of the plant
(b) leaves of the plant
(c) flowers and fruits
50. Why do plant cells possess large sized vacuole?
51. How are chromatin, chromatid and chromosomes related to each other?
52. What are the consequences of the following conditions?
(a) A cell containing higher water concentration than the surrounding
medium
(b) A cell having low water concentration than the surrounding medium.
(c) A cell having equal water concentration to its surrounding medium.
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