Questions
Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Which of the following is present in bacterial cells, but absent in animal cells?
- Cytoplasm
- Plasma membrane
- Cell membrane
- Cell wall
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
The dark spot-like structure inside the nucleus of a cell that helps in making ribosomes is called
- nucleoplasm
- nucleoid
- nucleoside
- nucleolus
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Which of the following is the set of the smallest and the largest cells, respectively?
- Nerve cell, ostrich egg
- Bacterial cell, ostrich egg
- Nerve cell, amoeba
- White blood cells, ostrich egg
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Which of the following terms describes the undefined region of the nucleus in prokaryotes?
- Nucleoid
- Nuclear wall
- DNA
- RNA
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
What is the energy currency of the cell?
- Proteins
- DNA
- Glucose
- ATP
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
What happens in anaphase stage?
- Chromatids start moving towards the opposite poles.
- Chromatids start moving towards the equatorial line.
- Chromatids condense to form chromosomes.
- Crossing over takes place between the homologous chromosomes.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Why do golgi bodies have connections with the membranes of ER?
- To prevent the membranes from mechanical injury
- To store and dispatch the materials synthesised by ER
- To form lysosomes in ER
- To transport ribosomes into ER
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
The characteristic feature of meiosis is that
- daughter cells have the same genetic information as the parent cell
- centromeres are divided at anaphase II
- homologous chromosomes do not cross over
- daughter cells have half the number of chromosomes as that of the parent cell (2n – n)
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Which of the following pairs of 'type of cell : cell structure present in it' is correct?
- Animal cell : Plastids
- Plant cell : Mitochondria
- Animal cell : Cell wall
- Plant cell : Centrosomes
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Which of the following statements regarding chloroplast is false?
- It is a single membranous structure.
- It is absent in animal cells.
- It conducts photosynthesis.
- It carries chlorophyll.