DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, ROHINI

REVISION ASSIGNMENTS FOR SEMESTER-1 EXAMINATION (2022-23)

CLASS: XI
SUBJECT: BIOLOGY

CHAPTER 8: CELL: THE UNIT OF LIFE

Q1. Identify the organelles using the hints provided in each case.
(a) Exclusive to plants, meant for storage of starch, double membrane bound
(b) Double membrane bound, reminiscent of primitive forms of life, associated with
aerobic ATP generation.
(c) Single membrane bound vesicular structures containing hydrolytic enzymes.
(d) Single membrane bound and associated with the task of storage, excretion and
digestion.
(e) Devoid of a membrane, synthesised in the nucleus and an important part of
protein forming machinery in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

Q2. Which organelles form the endomembrane system. Explain how they work together
in coordination within the cell.
Q3. Observe the diagram depicting the fluid mosaic model of cell membrane. Which of
the following are true with respect to the diagram?

(i) The carbohydrate is wrongly labelled

(ii) The peripheral protein is wrongly labelled
(iii) The phospholipid layer is not shown as a bilayer
(iv) The cholesterol is wrongly placed.
(a) Only (ii) (b) (i) and (ii) (c) (ii) and (iii) (d) (i) and (iv)

Q4. The pancreas acts as both exocrine as well as endocrine gland. A microscopic
examination of pancreatic tissue revealed that the cells have abundantly present
rough endoplasmic reticulum in them. Give a possible reason for the same.
Q5. Why does the Golgi apparatus remain in close association with the endoplasmic
reticulum?
Q6. In which of the two- a dividing cell or a non-dividing cell will you be able to see
chromosomes? Why?
Q7. What could be the consequences of the following?
(i) If the nuclear membrane was non-porous
(ii) Plant cells were devoid of a cell wall.
Q8. Prokaryotic cells are devoid of membrane bound organelles. In the absence of these
organelles how are the physiological functions of the cell carried out? Give at least
examples to justify.
Q9. Certain bacteria possess an extra chromosomal genetic material. What is this
structure called? How is the presence of this structure significant to the cells that
possess it?
Q10. Several prokaryotic cells are able to make multiple protein copies with a single
mRNA. How is that possible?
Q11. Protozoans like Amoeba take their food by phagocytosis during which the food
particles are trapped by surrounding pseudopodia and they engulf it inside the cell
forming a vesicle called phagosomes. Phagosomes pinch off inside the cell and move
towards the centre of the cell where they fuse with organelle ‘X’ to form food
vacuoles. Here food is digested and diffuses to cytoplasm. The waste material is
expelled out as the vacuole again merges with the membrane.
What is organelle ‘X’? What is its significance?

CHAPTER 9: BIOMOLECULES
Q1. Case-based
In nucleic acids, the building block is a nucleotide. A nucleotide has three chemically
distinct components. One is a heterocyclic compound, the second is a
monosaccharide and the third a phosphoric acid or phosphate. A nucleotide without
the phosphate is called a nucleoside. The sugar found in DNA as well as RNA is
pentose. However, it is not exactly the same. DNA is a double-helical structure with a
backbone of sugar and phosphate. The nitrogenous bases are attached with the
sugar molecules. The purines and the pyrimidines show complimentary base-pairing.
The two strands of DNA are anti-parallel.
1. Which among the following is a nucleoside?
(a) Thymidine (b) guanine (c) adenylic acid (d) cytosine
2. Which of the following correctly explains the difference between DNA and RNA?

(a)DNA has one oxygen atom less in its nitrogenous base whereas RNA has an
extra.
 (b) DNA has uracil whereas RNA has Thymine as one of the pyrimidines.
(c) DNA is usually double stranded and RNA is single stranded.
(d) Both (a) and (c)
3. How are the two strands of DNA held together?
(a) by phosphodiester bonds (b) by glycosidic bonds
(c) by nitrogenous bases (d) by hydrogen bonds
Q2. The sequence of nitrogenous bases on one of the strands of DNA is given as under.
Write its complementary sequence in the other strand. Remember to mark the
polarity.

Q3. Depict the formation of the following from their constituents and mark the type of
bond involved in their formation.
(a) maltose (b) triglyceride (c) polypeptide chain

Q4. Draw 2-D structure of DNA. Write the salient features of the ‘double-helix model’ of
DNA.
Q5. Complete the analogy;
(a) Starch: glucose:: -----------: fructose
(b) Adenine: ------------ :: cytosine: pyrimidine
(c) -------------------: haemoglobin:: tertiary protein: pepsin
(d) Cellulose:---------:: protein: heteropolymer.

CHAPTER 2: BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

Q1. Give a comparative account of the morphological features of the following:

(a) (b)

Q2. Distinguish between:

(a) photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs
(b) Dinoflagellates and Euglenoids
(c) Plasmogamy and karyogamy
Q3. Give one word for the following:
(a) Slug like phase in the life cycle of slime moulds
(b) Protozoan with spore-like stages in their life cycle.
(c) Fusion of protoplasm between two motile or non-motile gametes.
(d) Anaerobic monerans that completely lack a cell wall
Q4. Rhizopus, Rhizobium and Rhizophora (higher plant), all possess cell walls. However,
each is placed in a different group according to the 5-kindom classification. Name the
kingdom to which each belongs and the criteria on the basis of which these have
been classified.
Q5. Observe the picture of a marine organism givn below and select the correct
information about it.

(i) The organism possesses two flagella.

(ii) It has cellulosic plates on its surface.
(iii) It is a saprophyte.
(iv) It can be yellow, green, brown or red in colour.
A. (i), (ii) and (iii) B. (i) and (ii) C. (i), (ii) and (iv) D. (i) and (iv)
Q6. The following questions are based on Assertion and Reason. For each of these select
the following options if:
A. Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of
assertion.
B. Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is not the correct explanation of
assertion.
C. Assertion is true but reason is false.
D. Both assertion and reason are false.
(a) Assertion: Slime moulds obtain nutrition from dead organic matter.
Reason: Slime moulds produce fruiting bodies during unfavourable conditions.
(b) Assertion: Methanogens are present in the gut of several ruminants.
Reason: Methanogens help in the production of methane from dung of ruminants.
Q7. What is the cause of red tides in oceans?
Q8. Enlist the various structures of locomotion in protozoans.