Pre- Board (2023-24)

Class XII
Biology (Subject Code-044)
Maximum Marks: 70 Time: 3 hours
General Instructions:
(i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) The question paper has five sections and 33 questions. All questions are
compulsory.
(iii) Section–A has 16 questions of 1 mark each; Section–B has 5 questions of 2 marks
each; Section– C has 7 questions of 3 marks each; Section– D has 2 case-based
questions of 4 marks each; and section–E has 3 questions of 5 marks each.
(iv) There is no overall choice. However, internal choices have been provided in some
questions. A Student has to attempt only one of the alternatives in such questions.
(v) Wherever necessary, neat and properly labeled diagrams should be drawn.
Section - A
1. Amniocentesis is a process to:
a) Determine any disease in the heart
b) Know about disease in the heart
c) Determine any hereditary disease in the embryo
d) All of these
2. What is function of copper – T ?
a) Prevents mutation
b) Prevents fertilization
c) Prevents zygote formation
d) Both a and b
3. Persons having genotypes I A I B would show the blood group as AB. This is because of:
a) Pleiotropy
b) Co-dominance
c) Segregation
d) Incomplete dominance
4. Appearance of an ancestral trait is:
a) Evolution
b) Mutation
c) Atavism
d) Both (a) and (b)
5. Treatment of snake bite by antivenine is:
a) Artificial acquired active immunity.
b) Artificial acquired passive immunity.
c) Natural acquired passive immunity
d) Special natural immunity
6. Which one is a stimulant?
a) LSD
 b) Cocain
c) Heroin
d) Opium
7. Heat kills all organisms in the process called:
a) Virion
b) Interferon
c) Sterilisation
d) None of the above
8. PCR is used for:
a) DNA repair
b) DNA amplification
c) DNA identification
d) Cleave DNA
9.Ratio of natality and mortality of a population expressed in percentage is:
a) Vital index
b) Growth rate
c) Survival rate
d) Biotic potential
10. Soil water available to roots is:
a) Surface water
b) Hygroscopic water
c) Gravitational water
d) Capillary water
11. The pyramid of biomass would be inverted in:
a) Grassland ecosystem
b) Forest ecosystem
c) Fresh water ecosystem
d) Pond ecosystem
12. The animal extincted from India is :
a) Panthera leo
b) Antilope
c) Rhinoceros
d) Acinonyx
Question Nos. 13 to 16 consist of two statements- Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Answer these questions
selecting the appropriate option given below:
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d)A is False but R is true.
13. Assertion: In autogamy, pollination is achieved within the same flower.
Reason: Autogamy induces cross pollination in flowering plants.
14. Assertion: In diploid organisms, chromosomes always occur in pairs.
Reason: Genes are also occurred in pairs in diploid organisms.
15. Assertion: Chain of insulin is made up of 30 amino acids.
Reason: Chain of insulin is made up of 21 amino acids.
16. Assertion: An individual has birth and death.
Reason: A population of an area has birth rate and death rate.
Section – B
17. Distinguish between Vasa efferentia and Vasa deferentia.
18. Why Drosophila (fruit fly) is taken as suitable genetic material?
19. A heavily bleeding and bruised road accident victim was brought to a nursing home, the doctor
immeditely gave him an injection to protect him against a deadly disease.
(a) Write what did the doctor inject into the patient’s body.
(b)How do you think this injection would protect the patient against the disease?
(c)Name the disease against which this injection was given and kind of immunity it provides.
20. What is the role of lysing enzyme in biotechnology?
21. (i) What is primary productivity? Why does it vary in different types of ecosystems?
(ii) State the relation between gross and net primary productivity.
OR
Distinguish between primary productivity and gross primary productivity.
Section -C
22. When and where do chorionic villi appear in humans? State their function.
23. What do you mean by monosporic development of female gametophyte ?
24. Give at least four differences between DNA and RNA.
25. Write the Oparin and Haldane’s hypothesis about the origin of life on Earth. How does meteorite
analysis favour this hypothesis?
26. Write the scientific names of the causal organisms of elephantiasis and ringworm in humans.
Mention the body parts affected by them.
OR
Name the host and the site where the following occur in the life-cycle of a malarial parasite :
(a) Formation of gametocytes
(b) Fusion of gametocytes
27. What is role of selectable markers in recombinant DNA technology? Give examples of the same.
28. What are different patterns of biodiversity?
Section – D
29. Given diagram is of universal genetical material. Answer the following questions.

a) Identify the labels 1 and 2 of the diagram?

 b) Mention the name of universal genetical material.
c) Is above genetical material single stranded or double stranded?
OR
c)Mention the name of bond between sugar and phosphate back bone.
30. Study a part of the life cycle of malarial parasite given below. Answer the questions that follows:

a) Mention the roles of ‘A’ in the life cycle of the malarial parasite.
b) Name the event ‘C’ and the organ where this event occurs.
c) Identify the organ ‘B’ and name the cells being released from it.
OR
c)Is the vector of the disease male or female mosquitoes.
Section -E
31. Differentiate between perisperm and endosperm giving one example of each.
OR
Women experience two major events in their life time, on at menarche and the second at menopause.
Mention the characteristics of both the events.
32. Write a short note on Bt- cotton?
Or
How pest resistant plants are developed? Which novel strategy is employed in this ?
33. Name the genes responsible for making Bt cotton plants resistant to bollworm attack. How do such
plant attain resistance against bollworm attacks? Explain.
OR
What are Cry proteins ? Name an organism that produce it. How has man exploited this protein to his
benefit?