Multiple Choice Questions

Each question has 4 choices (a), (b), (c) and (d). Choose and uwrite the correct option.
1. While examining a thin slice of cork, Robert Hooke saw that the cork resembled
(2) Structure of a honeycomb (b) Bark of a tree
(c) Sea of structures floating (d) Irregularly shaped boxes.
2. The image shows some types of cells. [CBSE Question Bank]

Yeast cell Amoeba cell Sperm Bone cell Smooth muscle cell
Based on the image what could be the reason for the different shape and size?
(a) to suit their function
(b) as they are all animal cells
(c) as some are plant cells and some animal cells
(d) as they are formed first or last in the body
3. A cell will swell up if [NCERT Exemplar]
(a) the concentration of water molecules in the cell is higher than the concentration of water
molecules in surrounding medium.
(b) the concentration of water molecules in surrounding medium is higher than water molecules
concentration in the cell.
(c) the concentration of water molecules is same in the cell and in the surrounding medium.
(d) concentration of water molecules does not matter.
4. Select the odd one out. [NCERT Exemplar]
(a) The movement of water across a semipermeable membrane is affected by the amount of
substances dissolved in it.
() Membrane are made of organic molecules like proteins and lipids.
(c) Molecules soluble in organic solvents can easily pass through the membrane.
(d) Plasma membranescontain chitin sugar in plants.
5. The image shows cells in the onion peel and human cheek. [CBSE Question Bank]
Cell
Nucleus
membrane

Onion peel cells

What can be understood by observing these cells?
(a) Allliving things made of cells that look similar.
(b) Allliving things are made up of cells that are functionally similar but structurally different.
(c) All living things made up of cells that are structurally similar but functionally different.
(d) All living things are made of cells that look different from each other.
 6. Organelle other than nucleus, containing DNA is [NCERT Exemplar]
(a) endoplasmic reticulum (6) Golgi apparatus
(c) mitochondria (d) lysosome
7. The proteins and lipids, essential for building the cellmembrane, are manufactured by
[NCERT Exemplar]
(a) rough endoplasmic reticulum (b) Golgi apparatus
(c) plasma membrane (d) mitochondria
8. Which of these options are not a function of ribosomes? (NCERT Exemplar]
(i) It helps in manufacture of protein molecules.
(i) It helps in manufacture of enzymes.
(ii) It helps in manufacture of hormones.
(iv) It helps in manufacture of starch molecules.
(a) (i) and () (6) (ü) and (iü) (c) (im) and (iv) (d) (iv) and (i)
9. Which out of the following is not a function of the vacuole? [NCERT Exemplar]
(a) Storage (0) Providing turgidity and rigidity to the ccll
(c) Waste excretion (d) Locomotion
10. Which of the following are covered by a single membrane? [NCERT Exemplar]
(a) Mitochondria (6) Vacuole
(c) Lysosome (d) Plastid
11. Which cell organelle plays a crucial role in detoxifying many poisons and drugs in a cell?
[NCERT Exemplar]
(a) Golgi apparatus (6) Lysosomes
(c) Smooth endoplasmic reticulum (d) Vacuoles
12. The image shows a bacterial cell and an animal cell.
[CBSE Question Bank][Competency Based Question]

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Based on the structures, a student claims that the animal cell contains complex structures that
are absent in the bacterial cell. Which statement can the student make to support the claim?
(a)Cytoplasmic content of the bacterial cell is not enclosed in a thick cell wall as in case of an animal
cell.
(6) Nuclcar material of the bacterial cell is not enclosed in a nuclear envelope as in case of an
animal cell.
(c) Animal cell contains flagella that aids in locomotion that is absent in case of a bacterial cell.
(d) Animal cell contains ribosomes spread across the cell whereas in case of bacterial cell they are
clumped together.
 Assertion-Reason Questions
The following questions consist of two statements Assertion (4) and Reason (R). Answer these questions
selecting the appropriate option given below:
(a) Both Aand R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(6) Both Aand Rare true but Ris not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false but R is true.
1. Assertion (4) : Cell walls permit the cells of plants, fungi and bacteria to withstand hypotonic
external media without bursting.
Reason (R) : The cell swells, building up pressure against the cell wall.
2. Assertion (4) : The cellmembrane is a dead part of the cell.
Reason (R) : It regulates the movement of materials between the interior of the cell and the
outer environment.
3. Assertion (4) : Passive transport does not involve energy.
Reason (R) : It occurs due to concentration gradient of materials.
4. Assertion (4) : RBCs kept in hypotonic solution will swell.
Reason (R) : Movement of water occurs from outside to inside the cell.
5. Assertion (A) : The outer membrane of mitochondria is folded into cristae.
Reason (R) : Cristae increases the surface area. [Competency Based Question]
6. Assertion (4) : Ribosomes are present in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
Reason (R) : Ribosomes are the sites of protein synthesis.
7. Assertion (4) : Plant cells have a single large vacuole.
Reason (R) : Vacuole is responsible for ingestion of food substance.
8. Assertion (4) : Endoplasmic reticulum acts as an intracellular transport system.
Reason (R) : It transports products of cell to the outside and RNA into the cytoplasm from
Each question has 4 choices (a), (b), (c) and (d). Choose and write the correct option.
growth of the plants?
1. What property does the meristematic tissue have that results in [CBSE Question Ban]
(a) It is a dead tissue. (6) It is a flexible tissue.
(c) It is a dividing tissue. (d) It is a large tissue.
2. A class of students were shown a microscopic slide of a permanent tissue in plant for a test.
[CBSE Question Bank]
Which statement made by the student is correct about the tissue
shown?
(a) It is collenchyma tissue as the cells are clongated with irregular thick
COrners.
(6) It is parenchyma tissue as the cells have intercellular spaces and thin
walls.
(c) It is sclerenchyma tissue as the cells are thick walled with no internal
spacing.
(d) It is aerenchyma tissue as the large air spaces are present.
3. Which muscles act involuntarily? [NCERT Exemplar]
(i) Striated muscles (ii) Smooth muscles
(iiü) Cardiac muscles (iv) Skeletal muscles
(a) () and (ü) (b) (ii) and (ü) (c) (iii) and (iv) (d) (i) and (iv)
4. In desert plants, rate of water loss gets reduced due to the presence of [NCERT Exemplar]
(a) cuticle (b) stomata (0) lignin (d) suberin
Assertion-Reason Questions
The following questions consist of two statements Assertion (4) and Reason (R). Answer these questions
selecting the appropriate option given below:
(a) Both Aand Rare true and Ris the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A
and Rare true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false but R is true.
1. Assertion (4) : Permanent tissues are derived from meristematic tissue once they lose the
to divide.
ability
Reason (R) : Meristematic tissue is the dividing tissue present in the growing regions of the
plant.
2. Assertion (4) : The permcability of the cclls of various epithelia play an
important role in
regulating the exchange of materials between the body and the external
environment.
Reason (R) : Anything entering or leaving the body must cross at least one layer of
epithelium.
3. Assertion (4) :Allthe plant tissues divide throughout their life.
Reason (R) :
Meristematic tissues are localised in certain regions.
4. Assertion (4) : Apical
meristems are present at tips of stems and roots.
Reason (R) : Root and
stems grow in length.
5. Assertion (4) :
Parenchyma tissues are
Reason (R) : Parenchyma cells have non-living.
e-based/Source-based Questions
answer the questions that follou.
PASSAGE-1
osynthetic organ in a plant. It controls gas exchange and the amount
pper epidermal cells contain no chloroplasts except the guard cells.
upper and lower surface of he leaf. Their function is to prevent water
pping unwanted substances/organisms from getting in. The palisade
most of the photosynthesis occurs in the leaf. The palisade cells contain
p them perform photosynthesis. Lower epidermis is the bottom layer
thick. They may not contain a cuticle within the lower epidermis, there
leaves called stomata. These holes allow gases to diffuse in and out of
re formed by two highly specialised epidermal cels, called guard cells.
pidermal cells that contain chloroplasts.
Upper
epidermis

Palisade
mesophyll

Spongy
mesophyll

Lower
epidermis
 (i) Mention two functions of lower epidermis. 1

(ii) Where are chloroplasts present in the leaf?

(iüi) List one structural and one functional difference between upper and lower
epidermis. 2