ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL, AMRITSAR

UNIT I EXAMINATION
JULY 2021 BIOLOGY
CLASS- XII Sc.
TIMEALLOWED: 1.5 HRS MAX.MARKS: 35
General Instructions:
 This question paper comprises of two pages.
 All Questions are compulsory.

 This question paper contains five sections: Section A, Section B, Section C, Section D
and section E
 Section A contains five multiple choice questions and two assertion reason type
questions of 1 mark each, Section B contains one case based question of five mark each,
Section C contains four questions of three marks each. Section D contain four questions
of three marks and Section E contain one question of five mark.
SECTION –A
1. Flowers are unisexual in -
a. Pea b. Cucumber c. China rose d. Onion

2. The Logistic model is given as dN/dt=rN(1-N/K). When does the growth rate of a
population following the logistic growth model equal to zero?
a. When N nears the carrying capacity of the habitat.
b. When N/K equals to zero
c. When death rate is greater than the birth rate
d. When N/K is exactly one
3. Wind pollination is common in
a. Grasses b. Orchids c. Legumes d. Lilies
4. Which of the following pair is not correctly match?
Mode of reproduction Example
a) Conidia Penicillium
b) offset Pistia
c) Rhizome Banana
d) Fragmentation Grass

5. The function of oxytocin is to help in

a. Child birth b. Growth c. Lactation d. Gametogenesis

In each of the following questions two statements are given, one is assertion ( A) and
other is the reason ( R) . For (A) and ( R) statements, mark the correct answer as -
a. If both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
a. If both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
b. If A is true but R is false.
 c. If both A and R is wrong.
6.Assertion (A) – In a women after hysterectomy (removal of uterus) , the ovarian cycle
is stopped .
Reason (R) – Stoppage of FSH secretion.
7Assertion (A) – In angiosperms,the ovule develops into a seed after fertilisation.
Reason (R) – Fertilization is not essential for the development of fruit.

SECTION –B
8. Read the following and answer any four questions from (i) and (v) given below:
Adaptations enable the organisms to survive in all kinds of situations. It also plays
an important role in evolution.

i) Which one of these,’a’ or ‘b’ depicts conformers?

ii) What does the other line graph depicts?
iii) How do these organisms differ from each other with reference to homeostasis?
iv) Mention the category to which humans belong.

SECTION –C
9. (a) State the difference between meiocyte and gamete with respect to chromosome
number.
(b) why is a whiptail lizard referred to as parthenogenetic?
10. Explain any two ways by which apomictic seeds get developed.
11. Why are small birds like humming birds are not found in the polar regions? Explain.
OR
Give the reason:
a) Why zona pellucida blocks the entry of the additional sperms.
b) Sperm cannot reach ovum without seminal plasma.
SECTION –D
12. Study the population growth curves in the graph given below and answer the questions:
 a. Identify the growth curve A.
b. Which one of them is considered more realistic and why?
c. State the importance of ‘K’.
13 a. Draw a diagram of human sperm and label the cellular components. Give the function
of any three parts.
b. Where are sperms head found embedded to survive after spermatogenesis?
14. A flower of plant A following the process of sexual reproduction produces 480 viable
seeds.
Answer the following questions giving reasons-
a. How many male gametes are involved in the above case?
b. How many megaspore mother cells are involved?
c. How many minimum pollen grains must land on the stigma for pollination?
15.a) Draw a well labelled diagram of a typical anatropous ovule.
b) Write the fate of egg cell and polar nuclei after fertilisation.

SECTION –E
16. a) Compare, giving reasons, the J- shaped and S- shaped models of population growth
of a species.
b) Explain parasitism and co- evolution with the help of one example each.
OR
a. What is altitude sickness? How does your body physiologically adapt to overcome
it?
b. What is meant by competitive release? How does it affect population density?