1. The catabolic enzymes are found in
- (a) Golgi bodies
- (b) ER
- (c) Mitochondria
- (d) Lysosome
2. Thylakoids are associated with
- (a) Transpiration
- (b) Photosynthesis
- (c) Guttation
- (d) Respiration
3. "Cells arise from pre-existing cells only reproduction." This theory was given by
- (a) Robert Brown
- (b) Virchow
- (c) Robert Hooke
- (d) Schleiden and Schwann
4. Who first discovered living cell?
- (a) Robert Hooke
- (b) Purkinje
- (c) Lamarck
- (d) Leeuwenhoek
5. Aerobic respiration inside the cell occurs in:
- (a) Mitochondria
- (b) Plastid
- (c) Golgi bodies
- (d) Endoplasmic reticulum
6. Energy is stored in the cell in
- (a) Ribosome
- (b) Lysosome
- (c) Mitochondria
- (d) Nucleus
7. Invention of microscope is credited to:
- (a) Robert Koch
- (b) Robert Hooke
- (c) Ivanowski
- (d) Robert Brown
8. The protein tubulin is found in
- (a) Centriole
- (b) Lysosome
- (c) Golgibodies
- (d) Mitochondria
9. The extranuclear cell organelles which posses hereditary materials are
- (a) Mitochondria and Golgibodies
- (b) Golgibodies and Endoplasmic reticulum
- (c) Mitochondria and plastids including chloroplasts
- (d) Endoplasmic reticulum and lysosomes
10. The site for protein synthesis is:
- (a) Mitochondria
- (b) Golgi body
- Ribosome
- ER
11. All of the following are membrane bound except
- (a) ER
- (b) Centriole
- (c) Chloroplast
- (d) Vacuole
12. Which of the following structure is not possessed by in eukaryotic cell?
- a) Ribosomes
- (b) Incipient nucleus
- (c) Mitochondria
- (d) Centrioles
13. ) Enzymes that take part in glycolysis are present in:
- (a) Mitochondria
- (b) Glyoxisomes
- (c) Cytoplasm
- (d) Vacuoles
14. Which of the following is true for prokaryotic cells?
- (@) They have organelles
- (b) They possess a nucleus
- (c) They have circular DNA
- d) They are large in size
15. Genetic material of eukaryotic organism is:
- (a) Protein
- b) RNA
- (C) DNA
- (d) Lipid
16. The thin delicate membrane just attached to the cytoplasm is:
- (a) Ectoplasm
- (b) Endoplasm
- (c) Tonoplast
- (d) Protoplasm
17. Which of the following is correct?
- (a) Mitochondria help in photosynthesis
- (b) Mitochondria consist of nucleoproteins
- (c) Mitochondria are responsible for respiration and secretion
- (d) None
18. The layer found between cell wall of two cells is
- (a) Lysosome
- b) Lomasome
- (c) Microsome
- (d) Middle lamellae
19. Control centre of the cell is
- (3) Golgi apparatus
- Nucleus
- Ribosome
- DNA
20. The sugar present in fruits, honey and nectar is:
- (a) Mannose
- b) Glucose
- (c) Fructose
- (d) Lactose
21. In nucleic acids, nucleotides are joined by:
- Glycosidic bond
- Phosphate bond
- Peptide
- Hydrogen bond
22. Metabolic event taking place in cell is:
- (a) DNA → RNA →DNA
- b) DNA → RNA → Protein
- (c) DNA → Protein → RNA
- (d) RNA → Protein → DNA
23. Which is not a lipid?
- (a) Steroid
- (b) Fat
- (c) Triglyceride
- (d) Fatty acid
24. The amino acid 'Glycine' is found:
- (a) Inside cell wall
- (b) Outside cell wall
- (c) Inside phospholipid layer
- (d) Outside phospholipid layer
25. All proteins are:
- (a) Amino acids
- (b) Two or more polypeptides
- (c) Have quaternary structure
- (d) Enzymes
26. Which is true about lipids?
- (a) They are soluble in water
- (b) They are soluble in non-polar solvents
- (c) They are carbohydrates
- (d) They are primary source of energy
27. Lipids are:
- (a) Hydrophilic
- b) Hydrophobic
- (c) Both
- (d) None
28. Which of the following is correct?
- (a) Lysine and leucine are essential amino acids
- (b) Cystine and leucine differ in presence of basic group
- (c) Lysine is neutral amino acid
- (d) Leucine is basic amino acid
29. All nucleic acids are made of:
- (a) Nucleotides
- (b) Nucleosides
- (c) Nucleus
- (d) Purines
30. The aspect of protein structure to which the genes most directly relates:
- (a) Primary
- (b) Secondary
- (c) Tertiary
- (d) Quaternary
31. Protein that gives off amino acids only on hydrolysis
- (a) Albumin and globulin
- (b) Haemoglobin and myosin
- (c) Insulin and keratin
- (d) Prolamin and lecithin
32. NOT a part of nucleotides:
- a) Steroid
- (b) Nitrogen containing heterocyclic base
- (c) 5 carbon sugar
- (d) Phosphate group
33. Molecular formula of chitin is:
- (a) C_55 H_72 O_5 N_4 Mg
- (c) (C_12 H_22 O_11 )_n
- (b) (C_22 H_54 N_4 O_21 )_n
- (d) (C_22 H_50 N_6 O_22 )_n
34. As the size of protein increases:
- (a) It becomes less soluble and more heat coagula
- (b) It becomes more soluble and more coagulable
- (c) It becomes less soluble and less heat coagulable
- (d) It becomes more soluble and less heat coagulable
35. X-ray crystallography is used to study:
- a) Arrangement of proteins
- (b) Three dimensional structure of proteins
- (c) Composition of proteins and nucleic acids
- (d) Structure of lipids
36. Pyrenoids are found in:
- (a) Chloroplast
- (b) Mitochondria
- (c) Nucleus
- (d) Cytoplasm
37. Ribosome in prokaryotes is:
- (a) 70 s type
- (b) 50 s type
- (c) 80 s type
- (d) 40 s type
38. Large number of grana occurs in:
- (a) Ribosome
- (b) Plastid
- (c) Nucleus
- (d) Mitochondria
39. A thin membrane that envelops the structure chromosome is known as:
- (a) Matrix
- (b) Pellicle
- (c) Chromonemata
- (d) Chromomere
40. The cell wall is interrupted by minute pores called:
- (a) Microtubules
- (b) Plasmalemma
- (c) Plasmodesmata
- (d) Microfibrils
41. Which of the following occurs in mitochondria:
- (a) Kreb's cycle and ATP synthesis
- (b) Fatty acid oxidation
- (c) Amino acid synthesis
- (d) All of the above
42. The process by which all organells are separated from cell is:
- (a) Electrophoresis
- (b) Cytochemistry
- c) Radio-biology
- (d) Fractionation
43. ) Which microscope would you use to examine a culture of living cells?
- (a) Scanning electron microscope
- (b) Transmission electron microscope
- (c) Phase contrast microscope
- (d) Polarization microscope
44. When all organelles are removed from a cell, the remaining fluid like portion left is called:
- (a) Cytoplasm
- (b) Protoplasm
- (c) Hyaloplasm
- (d) None
45. The temperature at which protoplasm coagulates is:
- (a) -2 to 0°C
- b) 30 to 45°C
- (c) 60 to 70°c
- (d) 4 to 10°C
46. Which process occurs in chloroplast?
- (a) Photo-phosphorylation
- (b) Oxidative-phosphorylation
- (c) Respiratory chain
- (d) All
47. What is wrong about mitochondria?
- ) It is called power house of cell
- (b) It has enzymes for Kreb's cycle
- (c) Looks green due to presence of chloroplast
- (d) None
48. What is wrong about golgi bodies:
- (a) Takes part in lipid, steroid synthesis
- (b) Helps in cell plate formation
- (c) Helps in lysosome formation
- (d) Found in all living organisms
49. Chloroplast are green due to presence of:
- (a) Chlorophyll
- (b) Phycocyanin
- (c) Phycobilins
- (d) Chloropsin
50. Eukaryotic cells differ from prokaryotic cells in
- (a) Presence of cistrons
- b) Absence of cistrons
- (c) Absence of polymerase enzyme during m-RNA formation
- (d) None
51. Endoplasmic reticulum is made up of:
- (a) Tubules and flat sacs
- (b) Tubules only
- (c) Sacs and vesicles
- (d) Tubules, vesicles and flat sacs
52. Which is wrong?
- (a) Cell wall completely isolates the adjacent cells
- (b) Ribosomes helps in proteins synthesis
- (c) E.R. containing ribosomes is called rough E.R.
- (d) Cell membrane lies below cell wall
53. Description correctly matching corresponding junction type is:
- (a) Thickened area - Gap junction
- (b) Interwoven processes - Interdigitations
- (c) Minute projections from cell membrane - Tight junction
- d) Not providing physical support - Desmosomes
54. The cell and the corresponding substances stored in storage parenchyma:
- (a) Specialized cells - nectar and oil
- (b) Non green large sized cells - water and tannins
- (c) Large sized vacuolated cells - water and mucilage
- (d) Chloroplast containing large cells - large air cavities
55. Chromosomes at anaphase are of various shapes due to position of centromere. It is J-shaped when centromere is at:
- (a) Middle
- Top
- (c) Sub terminal
- (d) Near centre
56. In histology, the details of tissue structure observed through a definite technique, when involves treatment of tissues in an order. The correct sequence is:
- a) Fixing - embedding - dehydration - sectioning
- b) Fixing - dehydration - embedding - sectioning-staining - mounting
- () Fixing - dehydration - staining - embedding-sectioning - mounting
- (d) Fixing - dehydration - mounting - staining-sectioning
57. A tissue is a group of cells which are:
- (a) Similar in origin, form and function
- (b) Similar or dissimilar in origin and function
- (c) Similar in form and function but dissimilar in origin
- (d) Similar in origin but different in function
58. Cell drinking is referred to:
- (a) Plasmolysis
- (b) Diffusion
- (c) Pinocytosis
- (d) Phagocytosis
59. Which organelle contains maximum enzyme of cell?
- a) Mitochondria
- (D) Lysosome
- (c) Golgibody
- (d) Endoplasmic reticulum
60. Prokaryotic genetic system has:
- (a) DNA but no histones
- (b) Either DNA or histones
- (c) Neither DNA nor histones
- (d) Both DNA and histones
61. The term "suicidal bag" is used for:
- (a) Lysosomes
- (b) Ribosomes
- (c) Mitochondria
- (d) Peroxisomes
62. Which of the following structure other than nucleus contains DNA?
- (a) Golgi apparatus
- (b) Mitochondria
- (c) Endoplasmic
- (d) Ribosome
63. Proteins are synthesized by:
- (a) Endoplasmic Reticulum
- (b) Mitochondria
- (c) Ribosome
- (d) Lysosome
64. A light microscope has a magnification of about:
- (a) 2000 times
- (b) 1500 times
- (c) 1000 times
- (d) 500 times
65. The protein embedded in the lipid in the cell membrane is:
- (a) Integral protein
- (b) Secondary protein
- (c) Primary protein
- (d) Peripheral protein
66. Enzymes for various functions are found in complex form in
- (a) Membrane
- (b) ATP solution
- (c) Quaternary protein
- (d) Chromosome
67. Mitochondria are found in
- (a) Animal cells
- (b) Plant cells
- (c) In all cells
- (d) In all eukaryotic cells
68. Animal cells inter junctions are called
- (a) Plama membrane
- (b) Middle lamella
- © Desmosome
- (d) Plamodesmata
69. Lysosomes contain enzymes which are:
- a) Parts of the cell digesting enzymes
- (b) Protein synthesizing enzymes
- (c) Phospholipids hydrolyzing enzymes
- (d) All
70. The polypeptide assembly can be found on:
- (a) Nuclear pore
- (b) Nuclear membrane
- c) Ribosome
- (d) Cell membrane
71. Beet roots are coloured due to presence of
- (a) Anthocyanin in cytoplasm
- (b) Anthocyanin in vacuole
- (c) Authocyanin in chloroplast
- (d) Carotenoids of chromoplasts
72. Lysosomes are called suicidal bags because they have
- (a) Hydrolytic enzymes
- (b) Parasitic activity
- (c) Food vacuole
- (d) Catabolic enzyme
73. Lipid bilayer is impermeable to
- (a) Small polarized charge
- (b) Hydrophobic solution
- (c) Lyophillic small compound
- (d) Large polarized charge
74. Plant cells connected by channels through their walls called:
- (a) Plasmodesmata
- (b) Desmosome
- (c) Tight junction
- (d) Gap junction
75. Main component of endoplasmic reticulum is
- Vesicle
- (b) Cristae
- (c) Microtubles
- (d) Cisternae
76. The most prime component of cell wall is
- (a) Hemicellulose
- (b) Cellulose
- (c) Peptidoglycan
- (d) None
77. Who coined the term cell?
- (a) Robert Hooke
- (b) Kolliker
- (c) Rudolf Virchow
- (d) Swanson
78. Function of golgi bodies is
- (a) Protein synthesis
- (b) Production of cellular energy
- (c) Excretion
- (d) Formation of glycoprotein and glycolipid
79. Which of the following lack nucleus?
- ) Flame cell
- (b) RBC of frog
- (c) RBC of man
- (d) WBC of man
80. Bacterial and eukaryotic cell have similar
- (a) Ribosome
- (b) Ribozyme
- (C) ER
- (d) Mitochondria
81. Cellular totipotency is demonstrated by
- (a) All eukaryotic cell
- (b) Bacterial cell
- (c) All plant cell
- (d) Only gymnosperm
82. Spindle fibre is made up of protein:
- (a) Tubulin
- (b) Actin
- (c) Actinomyosin
- (d) Myosin
83. Core element of chlorophyll is
- (a) Mg
- (b) Ca
- (c ) Mn
- (d) Na
84. Protein synthesis takes place in:
- (a) Chloroplast
- (b) Ribosome
- (c) Mitochondria
- (d) Golgi body
85. The most common character between prokaryotes and eukaryotes is
- (a) Presence of membrane bound cell organelles
- (b) Presence of ribosomes
- (c) Presence of primitive nuclei
- (d) Can't be said
86. Glycosylation is carried out by
- (a) Mitochondria
- (b) Peroxisomes
- (c) Endoplasmic reticulum
- (d) Ribosome
87. Chromoplasts are modified plastids, rhodoplast is mainly consists of pigment.
- (a) Xanthophyll and fucoxanthin
- (b) r - phycocyanin and r -phycoerythrin
- c) C - phycocyanin and c - phycoerythrin
- (d) Purple red carotenoid pigments
88. If 'G' represents gametophytec generation and 's' sporophytic generation in plant, the sequence in their life cycle is
- (a) G -S - G -G-S
- (b) G - G - G - G -G
- (c) G -S - G -S - G
- (d) s - G - G - S -G
89. Nucleus of cell was discovered by
- (a) Robert Brown
- (b) Robert Hooke
- (c) Janssen and Janssen
- (d) Swanson
90. Red colour of tomato is due to
- (a) Conversion of chloroplast to chromoplast
- (b) Conversion of leucoplast to chromoplast
- (c) Disintegration of chloroplast and formation of chromoplast
- (d) Conversion of leucoplast and chloroplast to chromoplast
91. The filaments of cilia and flagella are composed of:
- (a) Microfilaments
- (b) Fibrils
- (c) Microtubules
- (d) Microfibrils
92. The point which provides the site for the spindle attachment is called
- (a) Kinetochore
- (b) primary constriction
- (c) satellite
- (d) secondary constriction
93. Which of the following is common to prokaryotes and eukaryotes?
- (a) Mitotic apparatus
- (b) Genetic code
- (c) Histone
- (d) Mitochondria
94. The layer of the cell wall that is formed soon after the cell division and is composed of calcium pectate is
- (a) Primary cell wall
- (b) Secondary cell wall
- (c) Cell coat
- (d) Middle lamella
95. Oxysomes is present in
- (a) Inner membrane of mitochondria
- (b) Outer membrane of mitochondria
- (c) Thylakoids
- (d) Polyploidy
96. Largest cell organelle is
- (a) Lysosome
- (b) Ribosome
- (c) Chromosome
- (d) Mitochondria
97. Which one of the following is the largest cell component?
- (a) Mitochondria
- (b) Lysosomes
- Yc) Nucleus
- (d) Centrioles
98. ATP synthesis takes place in
- (a) Cytosol
- (b) Mitochondria
- (c) Ribosomes
- (d) Endoplasmic reticulum
99. ATP is formed inside mitochondria at
- (a) Cristae
- (b) Oxysome
- (c ) Matrix
- (d) Inner membrane
100. Which one of the following in a cell is non-living?
- (a) Mitochondria
- (b) Vacuole
- (c) Nucleus
- (d) Ribosome
101. Which one of the following has single membrane structure?
- (a) Nucleus
- (b) Chloroplast
- c) Mitochondria
- (d) Lysosome
102. Which of the following in a cell is non-living?
- (a) Mitochondria
- (b) Vacuole
- (d) Chloroplast
- (c) Ribosome
103. The prokaryotes have
- (a) Naked DNA
- (b) Naked RNA
- (c) Neither DNA nor RNA
- (d) True nucleus
104. Centromere is a part of
- (a) Chromosome
- (b) Centriole
- (d) Ribosome
- (c) Lysosome
105. Chiasma formation occurs during
- (a) Leptotene
- (b) Diplotene
- (c) Pachytene
- (d) Zygotene
106. Which of the following part of a cell is non-living?
- (a) Golgi bodies
- (b) Nucleus
- (c) Mitochondria
- (d) Cell wall
107. Nucleolus in plant cell is involved in the synthesis of
- (a) DNA
- (b) mRNA
- (c) tRNA
- (d) rRNA
