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BIOLOGY
BOOKS - NCERT BIOLOGY (ENGLISH)
THE FUNDAMENTAL UNIT OF LIFE
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
Answer: C
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2. A cell with swell up if
A. the concentration of water molecules in the cell
is higher than the concentration of water
molecules in surrounding medium

B. the concentration of water molecules is
surrounding medium is higher than water
molecules concentration in the cell
C. the concentration of water molecules is same in
the cell and in the surrounding medium
D. concentration of water molecules does not
matter
Answer: B
3. Chromosomes are made up of

A. DNA
B. Protein
C. DNA and protein
D. RNA
Answer: C
4. Which of these options are not a function of
ribosomes?
I. It helps in manufacture of protein molecules.
II. It helps in manufacture of enzymes.

III. In helps in manufacture of hormones.
IV. In helps in manufacture of starch molecules.
A. I and II
B. II and III
C. III and IV
D. IV and I
Answer: C
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
Answer: C

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 higher concentration of
solution through a permeable membrane

D. Movement of solute molecules from lower
concentration to higher concentration of
solution through a semipermeable membrane
Answer: A
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 the above
Answer: B
8. Which of the following are covered by a single
membrane?
A. Mitochondria
B. Vacuole
C. Lysosome
D. Plastid
Answer: C
9. Find out the false sentences.
A. Golgi apparatus in involved with the formation of
lysosomes
B. Nucleus, mitochondria and plastid have DNA,
hence they are able to make their own structural
proteins.
C. Mitochondria is said to be the power house of
the cell as ATP is generated in them

D. Cytoplasm is called as protoplasm
Answer: D
10. Find out the correct sentence
A. Enzymes packed in lysosomes are made through
RER (Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum)
B. Rough endoplasmic reticulum and smooth
endoplasmic reticulum produce lipid and protein
respectively
C. Endoplasmic reticulum is related with the
destruction of plasma membrane
D. Nucleoid is present inside the nucleoplasm of
eukaryotic nucleus
Answer: A
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
Answer: C
12. The proteins and lipids, essential for building the
cell membrane, are manufactured by
A. endoplasmic reticulum
B. Golgi apparatus
C. plasma membrane
D. mitochondria
Answer: A
13. The undefined nuclear region of prokaryotes are
also known as
A. nucleus
B. nucleolus
C. nucleic acid
D. nucleoid
Answer: D

14. The cell organelle involved in forming complex
sugars from simple sugars are
B. ribosomes
C. plastids
D. Golgi apparatus
Answer: D

15. Which out of the following is not a function of
vacuole ?
A. Storage
B. Providing turgidity and rigidity to the cell
C. Waste excretion
D. Locomotion
Answer: B
16. Amoeba takes food through

A. exocytosis
B. endocytosis
C. plasmolysis
D. Both exocytosis and endocytosis
Answer: B
17. The cell wall of which of these is not made up of
cellulose
A. bacteria
B. Hydrilla
C. mango tree
D. lactus
Answer: A
18. Silver nitrate solution is used to study
B. Golgi apparatus
C. nucleus
D. mitochondria
Answer: b
19. Organelle other than nucleus, containing DNA is
B. Golgi apparatus
C. mitochondria
D. Iysosome
Answer: C

20. Kitchen of the cell is
A. Mitochondria
B. endoplasmic reticulum
C. chloroplast
D. Golgi apparatus
Answer: C
21. Lipid molecules in the cell are synthesised by
A. smooth endoplasmic reticulum

B. rough endoplasmic reticulum
C. Golgi apparatus
D. plastids
Answer: A
22. Cell arises from pre-existing cell was stated by
A. Haeckel
B. Virchow
C. Hooke
D. Schleiden
Answer: B
23. Cell theory was formulated by
A. Schleiden and Schwann
B. Virchow
C. Hooke
D. Haeckel
Answer: A
24. The only cell organelle seen in prokaryotic cell is
A. mitochondria
B. ribosomes
C. plastids
D. lysosomes
Answer: B
25. Organelle withour a cell membrane is

A. ribosome
B. Golgi apparatus
C. chloroplast
D. nucleus
Answer: A
26. 1μm is
A. 10 −6
m
B. 10 −9
m
C. 10 − 10
m
D. 10 −3
m
Answer: A
27. Lysosome arises from
B. Golgi apparatus
C. nucleus
D. mitochondria
Answer: B
28. Living cells were discovered by
A. Robert Hooke
B. Purkinje
C. Leeuwenhoek
D. Robert Brown
Answer: C

29. Select the odd on out
A. The movement of water across a semi permeable
membrane is affected by the amount of
substances dissolved in it
B. Membranes are made of organic molecules like
proteins and lipids
C. Molecules soluble in organic solvents can easily
pass through the membrane.
D. Plasma membranes contain chitin sugar in plants
Answer: D

Short Anwer Type Questions
1. Why are lysosome known as suicidal-bags of a cell?
2. Do you agree that 'A cell is a building unit of on
organism'. If yes, explain why?

3. Why does the skin of your finger shrink when you
wash clothes for a long time?
4. Why is endocytosis found is animals only?
5. A person takes concentrated solution of salt, after
sometime, he starts vomiting. What is the
phenomenon responsible for such situation? Explain.

6. Name any cell organelle which is non-membranes.
7. We eat food composed of all the nutrients like
carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and
water. After digestion, these are absorbed in the form
of glucose, amino acids, fatty acids, glycerol, etc. what
mechanisms are Involved in absorption of digested
food and water?

8. 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?
9. 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.
(a) Both the cells will swell.
(b) RBC will burst easily while cells of onion peel will
resist the bursting to some extent.

(c) Both (a) and (b) are correct.
(d) RBC and onion peel cells will behave similarly.
10. Bacteria do not have chloroplast, but some bacteria
are photoautotrophic in nature and perform
photosynthesis. Which part of bacterial cell performs
this?

11. Match the following columns
ColumnI ColumnII
A. Smooth endoplasmic 1. Amoeba
B. Lysosome 2. Nucleus
C. Nucleoid 3. Bacteria
D. Food vacuoles 4. Detoxification
E. Chromatin material and nucleolus 5. Suicidal bag
12. Write the name of different plants parts in which
chromoplast, chloroplast and Leucoplast are present.

13. Name the organelles which show the analogy
written as under
(i) 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
14. How is bacterial cell different from onion peel?

15. How do substances like carbon dioxide (CO2 ) and
water (H 2
O) move in and out of the cell?
16. How does an Amoeba obtain its food?
17. Name the two organelles in a plant cell that contain
their own genetic material and ribosome.

18. Why are lysosomes also known as scavengers of the
cells?
19. Which cell organelle controls most of the activities
of the cell?
20. Which kind of plastid is more common in
(a) roots of the plant (b) leaves of the plant (c) flowers
and fruits
21. Why do plant cells posses large sized vacuole?
22. How are chromatin, chromatid and chromosomes
related to each other?

23. 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 then the
surrounding medium.
(c) A cell having equal water concentration to its
surrounding medium.
Long Answer Type Questions

1. Draw a plant cell and label the parts which
(a) determines the function and development of the
cell. (b) packages materials coming from the
endoplasmic reticulum.
(c) provides resistance to microbes to withstand
hypotonic external media without bursting.
(d) is site for any biochemical reaction necessary to
sustain life.
(e) is a fluid contained inside the nucleus.
2. Illustrate only a plant cell as seen under electron
microscope. How its different from animal cell?

3. Draw a neat labelled diagram of an animal cell.
4. Draw a well labelled diagram of an eukaryotic
nucleus. How is it different form nucleoid?
5. Differentiate between rough and smooth
endoplasmic reticulum. How is endoplasmic reticulum

important for membrane biogenesis?
6. In brief state what happens when
(a) Dry apricots are left for sometime in pure water and
later transferred to sugar solution?
(b) A red blood cell is kept in concentrated saline
solution?
(c) The plasma-membrane of a cell breaks down?
(d) When Rheo leaves are boiled in water first and then
a drop of sugar syrup is put on it, osmosis does not
occurs, due to the death of the cells of the leaf. This
shown that selective permeability is property of living

plasma membrane.
(e) Golgi complex helps in the package, storage and
transfer of proteins synthesised by ribosomes. Thus,
when ribosomes are removed the cell will not function
properly.
7. Draw a neat diagram of plant cell and label any three
parts which differentiate it from animal cell.

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BIOLOGY

BOOKS - NCERT BIOLOGY (ENGLISH)

THE FUNDAMENTAL UNIT OF LIFE

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following can be made into crystal?

Watch Video Solution

2. A cell with swell up if

A. the concentration of water molecules in the cell

is higher than the concentration of water

molecules in surrounding medium

surrounding medium is higher than water

molecules concentration in the cell

C. the concentration of water molecules is same in

the cell and in the surrounding medium

D. concentration of water molecules does not

Watch Video Solution

3. Chromosomes are made up of

C. DNA and protein

Watch Video Solution

4. Which of these options are not a function of

I. It helps in manufacture of protein molecules.

II. It helps in manufacture of enzymes.

IV. In helps in manufacture of starch molecules.

Watch Video Solution

5. Which of these is not related to endoplasmic

between nucleus and cytoplasm

B. It transports materials between various regions

C. It can be the site of energy generation

D. It can be the site for some biochemical activities

Watch Video Solution

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

B. Movement of solvent molecules from its higher

concentration to lower concentration

C. Movement of solvent molecules from higher

concentration to higher concentration of

solution through a permeable membrane

concentration to higher concentration of

solution through a semipermeable membrane

Watch Video Solution

7. Plasmolysis in a plant cell is defined as

A. break down (lysis) of plasma membrane in

B. shrinkage of cytoplasm in hypertonic medium

D. None of the above

Watch Video Solution

8. Which of the following are covered by a single

Watch Video Solution

9. Find out the false sentences.

A. Golgi apparatus in involved with the formation of

B. Nucleus, mitochondria and plastid have DNA,

hence they are able to make their own structural

C. Mitochondria is said to be the power house of

the cell as ATP is generated in them

Watch Video Solution

10. Find out the correct sentence

A. Enzymes packed in lysosomes are made through

RER (Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum)