Prof. Rohan Shenoy's Test-Series For MHT-CET Biology - 2009 - Archived Question Paper For Practice

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TEST-SERIES FOR MHT-CET 2009 BIOLOGY

- PROF. ROHAN SHENOY


1. Ground water is
a) Fresh water resource
b) Marine water resource
c) Available to plants
d) Both (a) and (c)
2. Global warming means
a) Increase in body temperature
b) Increase in global environmental temperature
c) Decrease in melting point temperature of polar ice
d) Both (b) and (c)
3. Objective of Appiko movement(Karnataka 1983) was to
a) Provide cheaper fertilizers and manures
b) Conserve forest vegetation
c) Protest against genetically modified food
d) Cancel the bio-patent obtained by U.S.A. for benefits of Neem plant
4. Depleted species means
a) Endangered species
b) Vulnerable species
c) Indeterminate species
d) Extinct species
5. Mutant plants and animals that restrict themselves to particular geographical
locality are
a) Epibiotics
b) Microendemics
c) Pseudo-endemics
d) Ecological endemics
6. Okazaki fragments are made up of
a) Ribonucleotides
b) Deoxyribonucleotides
c) Lagging strand
d) Amino acids
7. Identify the false statement
a) The coiling of DNA molecule is right-handed
b) Complementary strands are anti-parallel
c) Every strand has one free hydroxyl group and one free phosphate group
d) Peptide linkages join two nucleotides together
8. Incorrect statement about RNA
a) Strands do not have polarity
b) C is joined to U by phosphodiester linkage
c) All pyrimidines are replaced by uracil
d) Do not contain codogen

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- PROF. ROHAN SHENOY
9. r-DNA is
a) Ribosomal DNA
b) DNA produced by genetic engineering
c) DNA produced by reverse transcriptase
d) DNA cut into pieces by restriction endonuclease
10. In genetic engineering, ‘Target DNA’ is the DNA of
a) Organism containing the desired gene
b) Organism receiving the recombinant gene
c) Plasmid treated with endonuclease enzymes
d) Person whose DNA fingerprint is to be prepared
11. Electroporation is used to
a) Separate fragments of DNA after treating by endonuclease
b) Suck out the nucleus from an egg cell
c) Insert chimeric DNA into host cell
d) Prevent breaking-down of a newly ligated DNA strand
12. Gene which gives the nitrogen fixing ability to the plant
a) NiF
b) Cry
c) Nod
d) NiF and Nitragin
13. Study of VNTR can be used for
a) Identification of persons, animals, plants
b) Increasing vegetable production
c) Production of genetically modified organisms
d) Strengthening food security
14. ‘Ti’ plasmid means
a) Tumour inducing
b) Tumour instance
c) Tumour independence
d) Tumour initialization
15. The GM variety of cotton which contains a transgene from Bacillus thuringiensis
is known as
a) Bath cotton
b) Bt cotton
c) Botton
d) B – Cotton
16. Which one has not been used as a bio-weapon?
a) Ebola virus
b) Spores of bacillus anthracis
c) Botulinum toxin
d) Human Immunodeficiency Virus

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- PROF. ROHAN SHENOY
17. Heterocysts are sites of
a) Light reaction
b) Nitrate and nitrite formation
c) Fixation of nitrogen compounds
d) Synthesis of leghaemoglobin
18. Eugenol is obtained from
a) Tulsi
b) Shatavari
c) Neem
d) Korphad
19. A biofertilizer that involves as pteridophyte host
a) Rhizobium
b) Anabaena
c) Clostridium
d) Azotobacter
20. One of the following is not involved in mushroom cultivation
a) Seeding
b) Sterlization
c) Casting
d) Cropping

Answer keys
1. D 2. B 3. B 4. B 5.C 6. B 7. D 8. C 9. B 10. A
11. C 12. A 13. A 14. A 15. B 16. D 17. B 18. A 19. B 20. C
All MCQs and their answer keys have been revised to comply with the new Biology
textbook published by the Board.

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