SUBJECT: Biology COURSE: NSEJS ELP NO.

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Topic: CELL
1. Intracellular compartments are not found in cells of
(A) Lower plant (B) Prokaryotes (C) Higher plants (D) Eukaryotes

2. The smallest living cells with cell wall are

(A) Viroid’s (B) Algae (C) Bacteria (D) Mycoplasma

3. Difference between the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell in having

(A) Cell wall (B) Nuclear membrane
(C) Ribosome (D) None of these

4. “Cell” was discovered by an given the term

(A) Grew (B) Brown (C) Robert Hook (D) Darwin

5. The Branch which deals with the study of cell structure and function is known as
(A) Histology (B) Ecology (C) Morphology (D) Cytolog

6. The main difference between plant and animal cell is

(A) Animal cells lack cell wall (B) Plant cell has no cell wall
(C) Animal cell has a rigid cell wall (D) Plant cells lack cell membrane

7. Which is the following is not a cell organelle

(A) Mitochondria (B) Ribosomes (C) Golgi complex (D) Microsome

8. Which of the following shows the absence of cytoplasmic streaming

(A) Eukaryotic cell (B) Prokaryotic cell
(C) Both (A) and (B) (D) None of the above

9. Smallest known cell is

(A) Acetabularia (B) Nostoc
(C) Chlamydomonas (D) Pleuropneumonia like organism

10. During Grams’ staining which is incorrect?

(A) All bacteria take crystal violet stain
(B) Gram +ve bacteria take crystal violet stain
(C) Only Gram -ve bacteria take crystal violet stain
(D) Gram -ve bacteria lose this stain after alcohol

11. A non-membrane bound organelle found exclusively in animal cell is:

(A) Sphaerosome (B) Glyoxisome (C) Peroxisome (D) Centriole

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12. Who concluded, based on his studies on plant tissues, that the presence of cell wall is a unique
character of plant cells ?
(A) Mathias Schleiden (B) Theodore Schwann
(C) Rudolph Virchow (D) Robert Hooke

13. endoplasmic reticulum is in continuation with

(A) Golgi body (B) Nuclear wall (C) Mitochondria (D) Cell wall

14. The enzyme present in Golgi bodies is

(A) PEP carboxylase (B) Peptidyl transferase
(C) Thymine ligase (D) Glycosyl transferase

15. Which of the following structure is the functional unit in a golgi complex
(A) Cristae (B) Cisternae (C) Thylakoid (D) None of the above

16. Cell wall materials are synthesized by

(A) Dictyosomes (B) Ribosomes
(C) Lysosomes (D) Centrosomes

17. In plants cells, the dictyosomes are derived from

(A) ER (B) Plasma membrane
(C) Mitochondria (D) Tonoplast

18. Golgi body originated from

(A) Lysosome (B) Endoplasmic reticulum
(C) Mitochondria (D) Cell membrane

19. “Endoplasmic reticulum” was discovered by

(A) Porter (B) Altmann (C) Golgi (D) Benda

20. In rapidly dividing cells, endoplasmic reticulum is

(A) Highly developed (B) Poorly developed (C) Absent (D) Non-functional

21. Endoplasmic reticulum is more developed in

(A) Green cells (B) Young cells (C) Mature cells (D) Bacteriophage

22. The transfer vesicle from RER fuse with which region of golgi complex
(A) Cis (B) Medial (C) Trans (D) Protein arms

23. The main organelle involved in modification and routing of newly synthesized proteins to their
destinations is-
(A) Chloroplast (B) Mitochondria (C) Lysosomes (D) Endoplasmic reticulum

24. The outer layer of vacuole is called

(A) Cell wall (B) Tonoplast (C) Plasma layer (D) Leucoplast

25. Amyloplast is concerned with

(A) Absorption of water (B) Absorption of light
(C) Store fat (D) Store starch

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26. The main difference between chlorophyll ‘a’ and ‘b’ is
(A) Chlorophyll ‘a’ is linear chain compound and ‘b’ is branched chain
(B) Chlorophyll ‘a’ has no Mg+ ion in centre of molecule
(C) In chlorophyll ‘a’ there is CH3 group whereas in ‘b’ it is -CHO group
(D) All of the above

27. Anthocyanins are pigments which are

(A) Water soluble and located in chromoplasts
(B) Water insoluble and located in chromoplasts
(C) Water insoluble and located in cell sap
(D) Water soluble and located in cell sap

28. In which of the following cell organelle, both the photo and thermochemical reactions occur
(A) Lysosomes (B) Chloroplast (C) Mitochondria (D) Ribosome

29. The bright colours of ripe fruits are due to-

(A) Leucoplasts (B) Chloroplasts (C) Amyloplasts (D) Chromoplasts

30. When a plant cell is treated by cellulose and pectinate enzymes, which of the following is formed
(A) Chloroplast (B) Leucoplast (C) Protoplast (D) One of these

(ANSWER KEY) ELP # 1

Que. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Ans. B C B C D A D B D C
Que. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Ans. D B B D B A A B A B
Que. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Ans. B A D B D C D B D C