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BIOLOGY

CELL

1. What part of the cell is

responsible for breaking down
and digesting things? - lysosomes
2. Who discovered cell in 1665? -
Robert Hook
3. Name an Organelle which
serves as a primary packaging
area for molecules that will be
distributed throughout the cell? -
Golgi apparatus
4. Name the outer most boundary
of cell? - Plasma membrane
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5. Name the process in which the

ingestion of material by the cells
is done through the plasma
membrane? - Éndocytosis
6. Which among the following
sentence is not correct about the
organelles? - They are found in
multicellular organisms.
7. Name an organism which
contains single chromosome and
cell division occurs through
fission or budding? - Prokaryotes
8. The jelly like substance present
inside the cell is known as -
Cytoplasm
9. Cell theory states that - cells
are fundamental structural
units of plants and animals
10. Food is converted to energy in
- mitochondria
11. Ribosomes helps in - protein
synthesis in cells
12. Plasma membrane is
composed of - protein and lipids
13. Mitochondria was first
discovered by - Altmann
14. Majority of cells cannot be
seen with our naked eyes because
- cells are microscopic
15. Green colour of leaves is due
to presence of the pigment -
chlorophyll
16. The thread like structure
found in nucleus are -
Chromosome

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17. Who proposed the fluid

mosaic model of plasma
membrane - Singer and Nicolson
18. What is tonoplast in cells -
membrane boundary of the
vacuole of plant cells
19. Cell theory was proposed by -
Schleiden and Schwann
20. Cell theory is not applicable to
- Virus
21. In higher plants the shape of
the chloroplast is - Discoid shape
22. The main function of
centrosome is - Formation of
spindle fibre
23. Plant cell wall mainly
composed of - cellulose
24. The diameter of most animal
cells ranges from - 10 to 100 μm.
25. What make parts of the
endoplasmic reticulum rough?
The presence of - Ribosome
26. Lysosomes can be expected to
be present in large numbers in
cells which - carryout the
phagocytosis
27. Do bacteria cells have nucleus
– In bacteria the genetic
material dispersed in the
cytosol and there is no internal
membrane that delimits a
nucleus
28. Death or mental retardation
takes place if accumulation
happens in – brain cells

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29. In a normal human being

number of chromosomes is – 46
30. Pigments containing bodies
which are bounded by membrane
are called - plastids
31. What is the fluid that fills the
nucleus called? - karyolymph, or
nucleoplasm
33. The first living cell was
discovered by - Leeuwenhoek
34. The longest animal cell is –
human nerve cell
35. The largest human cell and
smallest human cell is - female
ovum and RBC
36. The cell wall in fungi is
composed of which one - Chitin
37. Which one is called power
house of the cell - mitochondria
38. Which one is called the
kitchen of the cell - Chloroplast
39. The orange colour of carrot is
due to the presence of - Carotene
pigment
40. Who discovered Golgi
apparatus – Camillo Golgi
41. What is mean by
carcinogenesis - conversion of a
normal cell into cancerous cell
42. Which pigment present in the
cell vacuole which provide colours
to flowers - Anthocyanin
43. Which is called the unit of
inheritance - Chromosomes

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44. Plastids are found only in

plant or animal cell ? - plant cell
only
45. DNA was discovered by -
James D watson and Francis
Crick
46. what are the three types of
RNA – 1. mRNA (messenger RNA)
2. rRNA(Ribosome RNA ) 3.
tRNA (Transfer RNA)
47. The largest known cells are
unfertilised is - Ostrich Egg cells
(Size 6-inch diameter)
48. The red colour of tomatoes is
due to the presence of which
pigment - lycopene
49. Which one is the non - living
matter of the cell - Deutoplasm
50. Largest unicellular plant is -
Acetabularia (10 cm)
51. Who discovered the
endoplasmic reticulum - KR
porter
52. The inner membrane of
mitochondria has many folds this
is called - Cristae
53. Chloroplast is the site of
which function - Photosynthesis
54. Which one is called the
controlling centre of cell -
Chromatin
55. Which is a result of
uncontrolled mitosis cell division -
Tumour or cancer
56. The mitochondria may be
filamentous or granular in shape.
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They vary in size from - 0. 5 μm

to 2. 0 μm
57. The several important
functions performed by
mitochondria is - oxidation,
dehydrogenation,
oxidativephosphorylation and
respiratory chain
58. The ribosomes are spheroid
structures with a diameter of -
150 to 250Å
59. The spherical organelles
bounded by a single membrane.
They are found in the cells of
Protozoa, fungi, plants, liver and
kidney of vertebrates -
peroxisomes
60. The nucleus was first
discovered and named by -
Robert Brown
61. Chromosomes present in
Gorilla is - 48
62. The study of cancer is called -
Oncology
63. Lymphoma is a type of cancer.
It affects which part of body -
Lymphatic tissues
64. Ribosomes were discovered by
- GE palade
65. Centriols and centrosomes are
present only in plant or animal
cell - Animal cell
66. Centrosome was discovered
by - T boveri
67. In RNA which one is present
in place of thyamine - Uracil
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68. The main function of DNA is -

It controls Heredity, Evolution,
Metabolism, Structure and
differentiation.
69. The main function of RNA is -
protein synthesis
70. In which virus RNA is a
genetic material - HIV, Reovirus
71. Most of RNA found in which
part of the cell - Cytoplasm
72. The ribosome present
endoplasmic reticulum is called -
Rough Entoplasmic reticulum
73. Radioactive ores causes which
disease in miners - Lung cancer
74. Who discovered electron
microscope - Ernst Ruska and
Max knoll
75. The medium which is used to
mount the cleaned section on a
slide - Canada balsam
76. Meiosis cell division takes
place - only in diploid
individuals
77. During meiosis crossing over
occurs at - Diplotene
78. Prior to division each
chromosome is composed of two
genetically identical parts are
called - Sister Chromatids

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