KENDRIYA VIDHYALAYA NO.

1 HARNI, BARODA
PERIODIC TEST-2
CLASS: - XII
SUBJECT: - BIOLOGY
MARKS: - 40 TIME:-90 MIN.

Q.1 A boy of ten years had chickenpox. He is not expected to have the same disease for 1
the rest of his life. Mention how it is possible?
Q.2 Name the pathogen which causes Typhoid. Name the test that confirms the disease? 1
Q.3 Name two types of cells in which the HIV multiplies after gaining entry into the human 1
body?
Q.4 Name the type of association that genus Glomus exhibits with the higher plant? 1
Q.5 Name the type of association that genus Glomus exhibits with the higher plant? 1
Q.6 Give the scientific name of the source organism from which the first antibiotic was 1
produced?
Q.7 What are BACs and YACs? 1
Q.8 Name a technique by which DNA fragments can be separated? 1
Q.9 What is the role of ‘Ori’ in any plasmid? 1
Q.10 Mention one application for each of the following:- 2
(i) Passive immunisation
(ii) Antihistamine
Q.11 Why is the structure of an antibody molecule represented as H2L2? Name any two 2
types of antibodies produced in humans.
Q.12 (i) Name two gases produced during secondary treatment by sewage? 2
(ii) What is the primary sludge?
Q.13 Medical 2
type of microbe Scientific name Product
application

(i) Fungus A Cyclosporin B

(ii) C Mascus purpureus Statin D

Name the blank spaces a, b, c, and d from the table given below?
Q.14 (i) Expand ELISA? 2
(ii) What are transgenic animals? Give one example
Q.15 What does EcoRI signify? How its name is derived? 2
Q.16 (i) How and at what stage does Plasmodium enter a human body? 3
(ii) With the help of a flow chart only shows the stages of asexual reproduction in the
life cycle of the parasite in the infected human?
 (iii) Why does the victim show symptoms of high fever?
Q.17 What are biofertilizers? What are the main sources of biological nitrogen fixation? 3
Name two organisms that fix nitrogen symbiotically and two organisms that fix
symbiotically?
Q.18 You have created a recombinant DNA molecule by ligating a gene to a plasmid 3
vector. By mistake, your friend adds an exonuclease enzyme to the tube containing
the recombinant DNA. How will your experiment get affected as you plan to go to the
transformation now?
Q.19 (a) If a patient is advised anti-retroviral drug, name the possible infection he/ she is 5
likely to be suffering from. Name the causative organism?
(b) How do vaccines prevent subsequent microbial infection by the same pathogen?
(c) How does a cancerous cell differ from a normal cell?
(d) Many microbial pathogens enter the gut of humans along with food. Name the
physiological barrier that protects the body from such pathogens.
(e) Write two diagnoses of cancer?
Q.20 What is PCR? List the three main steps. Show the steps with a diagrammatic sketch? 5
Write applications of PCR