Chapter: Cell biology

Assignment 4

Question-1: A distinctive feature of the lysosome is that it has-

Options:
(a) A lower pH than the cytoplasm
(b) A higher pH than the cytoplasm
(c) A reduced hydrolase activity
(d) Double membraned envelope

Question-2: Which of the following enzymes is absent in lysosome?

Options:
(a) Lipases and proteases
(b) carbohydrase
(c) Polymerases
(d) Nuclease

Question-3: The Golgi apparatus (Dictysome)-

Options:
(a) Is found in animal cells only
(b) is found in prokaryotes only
(c) Is the site of rapid ATP production
(d) Packages and modifies proteins

Question-4: Which statement about the ER is not true?

Options:
(a) It is of two types, rough and smooth
(b) It is a network of tubes and flattened sacs
(c) Some of it is sprinkled with ribosome
(d) It is found in all living cells

Question-5: Which of the following is correct for the origin of lysosome (L)?
Options:
(a) ER → GB → L
(b) GB → ER → L
(c) Nucleus → GB → L
(d) Mitochondria → ER → GB → L

Question-6: Of the following structures of a plant cell, the one that most often has the greatest
volume is the-
Options:
(a) Vacuole
(b) Lysosome
(c) Glyoxysome
(d) Ribosome

Question-7:
I. It contains water, sap, excretory product and other unwanted materials
II. it is bound by a single membrane called tonoplast.
III. In plant cells. It can occupy upto 90% of cellular volume
IV. It maintains turgor pressure
The above features are attributed to-
Options:
(a) Lysosome
(b) Vacuole
(c) Peroxisome
(d) Food

Question-8: Which one is correct-

Options:
(a) In Amoeba, contractile vacuole is important for excretion and osomoregulation
(b) In many cells as in protists, food vacuoles are formed by engulfing the food particles
(c) Both a and b
(d) Vacuole is always large sized in all cells of plant

Question-9: The concentration of a number of ions and other materials is higher in vacuoles than
those in cytoplasm –why?
Options:
(a) Tonoplast has a number of active transport system that pumps ions into vacuole from
cytoplasm
(b) Through osmosis, a large amount of ions go continuously to vacuole from cytoplasm
(c) Cytoplasmic ions enter the vacuole through osmotic flow of water
(d) Vacuole is always engaged in the hydrolysis of salts into their ions

Question-10: The DNA is located in the _________of _________.

Options:
(a) Cristae, mitochondria
(b) Matrix, mitochondria
(c) Intermembrane space, mitochondria
(d) Grana, chloroplast

Question-11: RNA is found in all of the following structure except-

Options:
(a) Prokaryotic cell
(b) Nucleus, chloroplast and mitochondria
(c) Vacuole
(d) Ribosomes, HIV, TMV

Question-12: Which of the following cell organelle (s) is / are double membrane bound?
Options:
(a) Nucleus
(b) Chloroplast
(c) Mitochondria
(d) All

Question-13: Which of the following statement is incorrect?

Options:
(a) Mitochondria, unless specifically stained are not easily visible under the microscope
(b) Physiological activity of cells determines the number of mitochondria per cell
(c) Mitochondrion, a power house of cell has DNA, RNA, ribosomes and enzyme. So it can
survive outside the cell
(d) Mitochondria divide by fission

Question-14: Both the membranes of mitochondrion are-

Options:
(a) Structurally different but functionally similar
(b) Structurally as well as functionally different
(c) Structurally similar but functionally different
(d) Structurally as well as functionally similar

Question-15: Choose the correct statements-

I. Mitochondria and Chloroplast transfer energy
II. Mitochondrion is a power-house of cell as it produces most of the cellular ATP
III. Mitochondria and chloroplast are found in all eurkaryotic cells
IV. Mitochondria are the sites of anaerobic respiration
V. The matrix of mitochondria posses a single linear DNA, Many RNA molecules, 80S
ribosomes
Options:
(a) IV and V
(b) I, II
(c) II, IV and V
(d) III and V
Question-16: The matrix of which cell organelle has single circular DNA molecule, a few RNA
70S ribosomes and component required for protein synthesis and aerobic respiration-
Options:
(a) Chloroplast
(b) Golgi Body
(c) Mitochondrion
(d) ER

Question-17:
I. Sausage shaped /cylindrical
II. Diameter 0.2 -1.0 μm (average 0.5 μm); Length 1.0 - 4.1 μm
III. Has 2 aqueous compartments
IV. Outermembrane as continuous limiting boundary of the organelle
V. Inner membrane forms many cristae which increase surface area
VI. Both membranes have the their own specific enzymes
All the above features are attributed to-
Options:
(a) Chloroplast
(b) Nucleus
(c) ER
(d) Mitochondria

Question-18: Based upon the type of pigment, plastids are of how many type?
Options:
(a) 3 types
(b) 4 types
(c) 2 types
(d) 5 types

Question-19: Chloroplasts contain-

Options:
(a) All types of pigments
(b) Chl + Carotene + anthocyanine
(c) Chl + Carotenoids
(d) Only chl

Question-20: Carotenoids-
Options:
(a) Are fat soluble pigments
(b) Include carotene (orange) and xanthophyll (yellow) pigment
(c) Are present in both chloroplasts and chromoplasts
(d) All

Question-21:
I. Amyloplasts –Store starch e.g. potato
II. Elaioplasts –Store oil and fat
III. Aleuroplasts –Store protein
The above types of plastids are included under-
Options:
(a) Leucoplasts (Colourless plastid)
(b) Chromoplasts (Non green colour plastid)
(c) Chloroplast (green plastid)
(d) None

Question-22: In chloroplast, chlorophyll is present in-

Options:
(a) thylakoid
(b) Stroma
(c) Outer membrane
(d) Inner membrane of envelope

Question-23: Stacks of vesicles in chloroplast form-

Options:
(a) Stroma
(b) Thylakoid
(c) Grana
(d) Oxysome

Question-24: Extranuclear genes are found in-

Options:
(a) Lysosome and chloroplast
(b) GB and ER
(c) Nucleus and mitochondria
(d) Mitochondria and chloroplast

Question-25: Which of the following is correct about the outer and inner membrane of
chloroplast?
Options:
(a) Less permeable and more permeable respectively
(b) More permeable and less permeable respectively
(c) Botha are equally permeable
(d) Both are equally impermeable

Question-26: Grana of the chloroplast are interconnected by-

Options:
(a) Granal thylakoids
(b) Granal lamellae
(c) Stromal lamellae
(d) Stroma

Question-27: The stroma of chloroplast has-

Options:
(a) Enzymes for protein synthesis only
(b) Enzymes for carbohydrates synthesis
(c) Both
(d) Enzymes for dark reaction and oxidative phoshphorylation

Question-28: Which of the following is membraneless?

Options:
(a) Ribosomes
(b) Nucleolus
(c) Centriole
(d) All

Question-29: Which of the following is Nucleoproteinaceous?

Options:
(a) Chromosomes, Viruses and ribosomes
(b) Centriole, Virsues and lysosome
(c) Viruses, chromosomes and vacuole
(d) Nucleus, GB, DNA

Question-30: 70S ribosomes are found-

Options:
(a) In prokaryotic cells, mitochondria and chloroplast
(b) In prokaryotic cells and in cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells
(c) on endoplasmic reticulum
(d) On Endoplasmic reticulum and Nuclear membrane

Question-31: Who discovered ribosomes as dense particles under the electron micoroscope?
Options:
(a) George Palade
(b) Kolliker
(c) Boveri
(d) Strasburger

Question-32: To enter or leave a cell, substances must pass through-

Options:
(a) Microtubule
(b) Plasma membrane
(c) Microfilament
(d) Nucleus

Question-33: Of the following organelles, which group is involved in manufacturing substances

needed by cell?
Options:
(a) Lysosome, vacuole, ribosome
(b) Vacuole, RER, SER
(c) Ribosome, RER, SER
(d) RER, Lysosome, vacuole

Question-34: Dye injected into a cell might be able to enter an adjacent cell through a-
Options:
(a) Microtubule
(b) Microfilament
(c) Plasmodesmata
(d) Tight junction

Question-35: The cytoskeleton is a proteinaceous network of fibres in the cytoplasm involved in

Options:
(a) Mechanical support
(b) Motility
(c) Maintenance of cell-shape
(d) All

Question-36: Microtubules are made up of-

Options:
(a) Actin and function in locomotion
(b) Tubulin found in cilia and flagella
(c) Myosin and function in contraction
(d) Polysaccharide and function in locomotion
Question-37: An oraganelle with an internal cross section showing characteristic “9 +2”
morphology is the-
Options:
(a) Microtubule
(b) Microfilament
(c) Cilium or flagellum
(d) Cytoskeleton

Question-38: The cellular structures that are almost like centrioles are-
Options:
(a) Basal bodies
(b) Microfilaments
(c) Microtubules
(d) Centromeres

Question-39:
I. Cilium /Flagellum contains an outer ring of nine doublet microtubules surrounding two signal
microtubules
II. Cilia are smaller which works like oars, causing the movement of either the cells or
surrounding fluid
III. Flagella are comparatively longer and responsible for cell movement.
IV. Cilium and flagellum are covered with plasma membrane
Which of the above statement is correct?
Options:
(a) I, II
(b) I, II, III, IV
(c) I, IV
(d) II, III

Question-40: Go through the section of cilia/flagella showing the different parts-

In which of the following options correct words for all the four blanks A, B. C, and D are
indicated?
Options:
(a) A – Plasma membrane, B- interdoublet bridge, C-Central microtubule, D- Radial spoke
(b) A – Plasma membrane, B- Arm, C- Central microtubule D- Radial spoke
(c) A – Plasma membrane, B-Inerdoublet bridge, C- Hub, D- Radial spoke
(d) A – Plasma membrane, B- Interdoublet bridge, C- Hub, D – Arm

Answer key

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A C D D A A B C A B
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
C D C B B C D A C D
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
A A C D B C C D A A
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
A B C C D B C A B A