OLYMPIAD VIII- X (BIOLOGY)

{2 QUESTIONS – EACH CARRYING 2 MARKS}

1. Where are chloroplasts present?

Animal cell
Plant cell
Bacterial cell
Purkinje fibres

2. Which of the following is the outer covering of plant and bacterial cells?
Plasma membrane
Cytoplasm
Cell wall
Nucleus

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3. Which of the following is incorrect?

Chlorophyll is present in plant cell
Chlorophyll is present in animal cell
Chlorophyll is present in photosynthesizing bacteria
Both (b) and (c)

4. Which of the following are the examples of cell organelles?

Plastids
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Golgi complex
All of these

5. Which of the following is/are function/s of any of the cell organelles?

ATP synthesis
Clearing up of the waste materials
Protein and Lipid synthesis
All of these

6. Who proposed the Fluid Mosaic Model?

Singer
Nicolson
Both (a) and (b)
Madam Curie
7. Where is chlorophyll present in some photosynthesizing bacteria?

sac containing green pigment(chlorophyll)

Chloroplasts

Leucoplasts

Mitochondrion
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8. Which of the following are the parts of a chromosome?

MITOCHONDRIA NUCLEOSOME CENTROMERE

CHROMATIN CHROMOPLAST DNA
CHLOROPLAST CHROMATID DNA
NUCLEOSOME CHROMATIN CENTROMERE

9. The following questions consist of two statements- Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Answer the
questions selecting the appropriate option below.

Assertion (A) : Plasma membrane is the outermost covering of all living organisms present on
the earth.

Reason (R) : Plasma membrane does not allow gaseous molecules like CO 2 and O2 to pass
through it more easily than others.

Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true, and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion
(A).
Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true but reason (R) is not the correct explanation of
assertion (A).
Both Assertion (A) and reason (R) are false.
Assertion (A) is false but reason (R) is true.

10. The undefined nuclear region of eukaryotes is also known as

nucleus

Nucleoid

nucleic acid

None of these