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COMMON EXAMINATION
Class-12
(BIOLOGY – 044/3)
Maximum Marks: 70 Time allowed: 3 hours

1. B (1)

2. C (1)

3. B (1)

4. D (1)

5. C (1)

6. B (1)

7. C (1)

8. C (1)

9. A (1)

10. A (1)

11. D (1)

12. C (1)

13. A (1)

14. B (1)

15. B (1)

16. B (1)

SECTION – B

17. i- It represents the number of tertiary consumers. (1) (2)

ii- PP- producers, for example, plant SC – secondary consumer, for example- cat (1)

18. Exo nuclease acts on the free ends of linear DNA molecule. Therefore, instead of producing (2)
DNA fragments with sticky ends, it will shorten or completely degrade the DNA fragment
containing the gene of interest, and the circular plasmid (vector) will not get cut as it lacks
free ends.

19. I - Histamine (1) (2)

II –a (1)

20. i - Nucleosome (½) (2)

ii- Packaging of chromosome (1)
iii- Histone protein (½)

21. A- Chasmogamous flower B- Cleistogamous flower (1) (2)

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Cleistogamous flowers – they have unexposed anther and stigma and therefore always show
self-pollination and assured seed set. (1)
(or)
Apomictic seeds are produced without fertilization. (1)
To maintain hybrid characters (year after year in a desired plant) and to avoid buying hybrid
seeds every year (expensive seeds) farmers prefer using apomictic seeds. (1)

SECTION – C

22. (a) When a large habitat is broken into small fragments due to various activities , mammals (3)
and birds requiring large territories and certain animals with migratory habitats are badly
affected, leading to population decline. (1)
(b) (i) Nile perch introduced in Lake Victoria eventually led to the extinction of an
ecologically unique assemblage of more than 200 species of cichlid fish.
(ii) Parthenium/ Lantana / water hyacinth caused environmental damage and threat to our
native species
(iii) frican catfish- clarias gariepinus introduced for aquaculture purpose is posing a threat to
the indigenous catfishes in our rivers. (any one) (1)
(c) Yes: Humans have overexploited natural resources for their ‘greed’ rather than ‘ need’
leading to extinction of these animals. Sustainable harvesting could have prevented
extinction of these species. (1)

23. Curve ‘a’ is exponential growth curve. When the resources (food + space) are unlimited, this (3)
type of growth curve appears. (1)
Curve ‘b’ is logistic growth curve. When the resources become limited at certain point of
time, this type of growth curve appears. (1)
r = intrinsic rate of natural increase
K = carrying capacity (1)

24. Bt cotton contains inactive toxins protein or protoxin. These are insecticidal proteins in the (3)
form of crystal protein. Once the insect ingests its, the inactive protoxin is converted into
active form due to alkaline pH in the gut, which solubilise the crystals. The activated toxins
bind to the surface of midgut epithelial cells, thus creating pores which causes cell swelling
and lysis, eventually leading to the death of the insect pest.

25. Bioactive Molecule Medicinal Value (3)

Produced

(i) Streptococcus Streptokinase Removes clot from the blood vessels

(ii) Monascus Statin Inhibits enzymes responsible for

purpureus synthesis of cholesterol. So is used as
cholesterol lowering agent.

(iii) Trichoderma Cyclosporin A Immunosuppressive agents used in

polysporum organ transplantion.

26. Kinds of Stem cells (3)

Embryonic stem cells: These are extracted from five to six months old embryo and they have
the ability to form any type of cells in human body.
Adult stem cells: There are undifferentiated cells among differentiated cells. Their ability to
divide are described as they can divide into few types cell. (1½)
Embryonic germ cells: These are derived from human embryo that produce egg or sperm.
Applications

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1) Stem cell technology is useful in treatment diseases e.g. diabetes, spiral cord injury,
heart disease etc.
2) Genetic disease e.g. cystic fibroris can be treated by this.
3) Through tissue repair, different disease can be treated by this technology.
4) Adult bone marrow are injected in heart arteries to improve cardiac functions.
5) Injection of stem cells reduces pancreatic cancer. (Any three) - (1½)

27. (a) The illustration represents adaptive radiation. (1) (3)

The process of evolution of different species in a given geographical area starting from a
point and radiating to other area of geography (habitats) is called adaptive radiation. (1)
(b) Convergent evolution (1)
(or)
According to hardy – weinberg principle, total genes and their alleles in a population are gene
pool remains constant. This is called genetic equilibrium. Sum total of all the allelic
frequencies is P2 + 2pq + q2 = 1 (1)
(ii) Factors that affect Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium:
(i) Gene migration or gene flow
(ii) Genetic drift any two (2)
(iii) Mutation
(iv) Genetic recombination

28. (a) Small round head / furrowed tongue / partially open mouth / mental development retarded (3)
(b) Both
(c) Klinefelter’s syndrome
(d) Male
(e) Lack of secondary sexual characters.
(f) Female 6x½=3

SECTION – D

29. (i) The diagram depicts the process of vasectomy and tubectomy. (4)
(ii) 8 – celled stage
(iii) Embryo with more than 8 blastomeres.
(iv) Two events that are inhibited by the intake of oral contraceptive pills to prevent
pregnancy in humans are ovulation and implantation.
(v) Sperm is directly injected into the ovum - ICSI
AI – semen collected from the husband / donar is introduced into the vagina

30. (i) B (4)

(ii) B
(iii) D
(iv) C
(v) A

SECTION – E

31. (a) Female partner is often blamed due to following reasons: (5)
(i) Social mind-set
(ii) Inequality of sexes
(iii) Lack of awareness /male dominated society. (any one) (1)

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(b) Infertility is caused due to physical abnormality in reproductive system, congenital ,

immunological or psychological problems. (Any two) (2)
(c) Intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), artificial insemination (AI), Intra uterine
insemination (IUI) can help couples where the problem is with male partner. (2)
(or)
(a) The ideal contraceptive should be
(i) User- friendly,
(ii) Effective and easily available
(iii) Not interfering with the sexual drive,
(iv) Reversible with no or least side effects. (2)
(b) CuT, Cu7 and Multiload 375 affect motility of sperms. (1)
(c) Multiload 375 is a copper releasing IUD
LNG-20 is a harmone releasing IUD (2)

32. (a) There will be 138 pink flower bearing plants and 69 white flower bearing plants (1) (5)
(b) Pink (Rr) selfing

(2)
Phenotypic ratio – red : pink : white (1)
1 : 2 : 1
Genotypic ratio – red : pink: white (1)
1 : 2 : 1
(or)

(a) Phenotype of F1 – Tall plants with yellow seeds. (1/2)

Genotype of F1 – TtYy (1/2)
(b) Phenotypic ratio of F2 generation:

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Tall , yellow seeds : Tall , green seeds : Dwarf, yellow seeds : Dwarf, green seeds (1/2)
9 : 3 : 3 : 1

33. i- Francis Crick (1) (5)

ii- a- Replication, b- Transcription c- Translation d- Reverse Transcription (2)
iii- a- DNA dependent DNA polymerase b- RNA dependent RNA polymerase d-Reverse
transcriptase ( )

iv- In the life cycle of HIV. ( )

(or)

i- inducer (i)
ii- Operator (o)
iii- Permease (y) (3)

(2)

End of the paper

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