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CHAPTER 7
HOW DO ORGANISMS REPRODUCE?

QUESTION BANK
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

Q1. Contraceptives help in preventing pregnancies. What function would a

contraceptive loop inserted at T serve?

(a) Stopping sperms from reaching and fertilizing eggs

(b) Stopping release of sperms

(c) Blocking the release of eggs

(d) Stopping egg creation

Q2. Identify the example that best describes a response to a stimulus.

(a)Absorption of sunlight by chloroplast

(b) Germination of pollen grains on the stigma
(c) Absorption of nutrients from the soil through root hairs
(d)Transportation of water and nutrients through the xylem

Q3. The thread like structure that develop on a moist slice of bread in Rhizopus are:
(a) Sporangia
(b) Filaments
(c) Rhizoids
(d) Hyphae

Q4. In the male reproductive system along the path of the vas-deferens the
secretions of which gland provide nutrition and mobility to the sperms? (a) Prostate
glands (b) Seminal vesicles (c) both a and b (d) Scrotum

Q5. In the below figure the parts A, B and C are sequentially

(a) Cotyledon, plumule and radicle
(b) Plumule, radicle and cotyledon
(c) Plumule, cotyledon and radicle
(d) Radicle, cotyledon and plumule

Q6. Choose the correct order of the stages of binary fission in Leishmania.

(a) I, II, III, IV, V, VI

(b) I, III, II, V, IV, VI
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(c) I, III, V, II, VI, IV

(d) I, II, III, V, VI, V

Q7. Among the following diseases, which is not sexually transmitted?

(a) Syphilis (b) Hepatitis
(c) HIV-AIDS (d) Gonorrhoea

Q8. Select the correct sequence of acts that leads to pregnancy in a female
1) Fertilisation of egg 2) ovulation 3) Formation of zygote 4) implantation
(a) 4,3,2,1 (b) 2,1,3,4

(c) 1,2,3,4 (d) 4,3,1,2

Q9. The image shows the structure of a flower. Out of the following processes,
which one is likely be disturbed or not will not take place, if the labelled part is
removed from the flower?

(a) formation of fruit

(b) transport of pollen
(c) formation of pollen
(d) development of pollen tube.

Q10. The diagram below represents the male human reproductive system.
Identify the part that is resposible for the secretion of testosterone.

(a) P (b) Q (c ) R (d) S

ASSERTION REASON TYPE

Answer the question selecting appropriate options given below:

(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct
explanation of (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true but Reason (R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true, but Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false, but Reason (R) is true
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Q1. Assertion (A): Plants that can reproduce asexually cannot reproduce sexually.

Reason (R): Asexual reproduction does not involve the production of gametes.

Q2. Assertion (A): An organism with 24 chromosomes undergoes binary fission to

give rise to daughter cells with 12 chromosomes each.
Reason (R): Binary fission gives rise to two identical daughter cells.

Q3. Assertion (A): Testes in human males are located outside the abdominal cavity
in scrotum.
Reason (R): scrotum provides a lower temperature than the normal body
temperature for sperm formation.
Q4. Assertion (A): Amoeba takes in food using finger like extensions of the cell
surface.
Reason (R): In all unicellular organism the food is taken in by the entire cell
surface.

Q5. Assertion: Zygote is formed by fusion of sperm with Egg.

Reason: Both the sperm and the egg are haploid.

Q6. Assertion: Urethra forms the common passage for both the sperms and urine.
Reason: It carries both of them outside the male body.

Q7. Assertion: HIV-AIDS is a viral disease.

Reason: It does not spread through sharing of food and shaking hands.
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE

Q1 Kirti wants to produce a hybrid variety of tomatoes. She has tomato plants X and
Y belonging to two different varieties, one with smooth, long fruits and the other one
with wrinkled, round fruits. Tomatoes have bisexual flowers. Kirti carries out the
following steps carefully to cross pollinate the flowers of plants X and Y:
i. She removes a part of the flowers of tomato plant X just before the flowers
bloom.
ii. She manually pollinates the flowers of tomato plant X using pollen from the
flowers of tomato plant Y.
iii. She ties small plastic bags around the pollinated flowers of tomato plant X.
The plastic bags are removed after a couple of days.
What could be reason for covering the pollinated flowers of plant X?
Q2. A new sugarcane plant is genetically the same as the parent plant, but
a child of human parents is genetically not the same as its parents. Explain
why.
Q3. Sita is very fond of gardening. She has different flowering plants in her garden.
One day few naughty children entered her garden and plucked many leaves of
Bryophyllum plant and threw them here in the garden. After few days, Sita observed
that new Bryophyllum plants were coming out from the leaves which fell on the
ground. What does the incident sited in the paragraph indicate?
Q4. Name two bacterial STDs.
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Q5. What is the site of fertilization in human being?

Q6. Give the full form of IUCD.
Q7. How is binary fission different from multiple fission?
Q8. Which of the following is a unisexual flower bearing plant?
Q9. Which of the two self-pollination or cross pollination has greater chances
of bringing variations in the progeny? If yes, then why?
Q10. Which tissue provides nutrition to the growing fetus in the womb?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE

Q.1 Compare the reproductive parts of flowers and humans and answer the
questions below:

(a) Which part of the human female reproductive system has a similar function as
the stigma in a flower? Give a reason to support your answer.

(b) Testes in the male reproductive system would correspond to which part of the
male reproductive system in a flower? Justify.

(c) The style of a flower and the fallopian tube in humans correspond functionally
with each other. Is this statement true? Justify your answer.

Q2. Walnut plants belong to a category of plants where the male and female flowers
grow separately on the same plant. A scientist took three plants - P, Q and R. He
removed the male flowers from plant P and the female flowers from plant Q. Plant R,
he left as it is - with both flowers on the same plant. He kept all three plants in an
open space. Will any of these plant/s bear fruits? Justify your answer.

Q3. Bindu wants to try producing a hybrid variety of pumpkins from two varieties P
and Q. Pumpkin plants have unisexual flowers, with both male and female flowers on
all plants. There is a slight variation in the procedure as described below:
- She does NOT remove any part from the pumpkin flowers she wants to
pollinate.
- However, she still ties small plastic bags around the manually pollinated flowers.
Explain why Bindu does not remove any part from the flowers to be pollinated, but
still ties small plastic bags after pollination.

Q4. Justify the following statement:

“The use of contraceptive methods has a direct effect on the health and prosperity of
a family.”
Q5. List differences between pollination and fertilization.

Q6. (a) Name the parts 1 to 4 of human female reproductive system.

(b) Name the part where implantation takes place in the system.
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Q7. Read the table and fill the where “? “present

Plant/ animal Reproduction type

Amoeba ?
? Multiple fission
Strawberry ?
? Regeneration
? Budding
Mango, Apples, Pea ?
? Spore formation
Rose, chrysanthemum, grapes ?

LONG ANSWER TYPE

Q1. Water hyacinths reproduce both sexually and asexually. They reproduce
sexually by producing seeds through flowers, and asexually by bud formation or
fragmentation. It undergoes reproduction through either of the methods depending
on environmental conditions. Water hyacinths bloom freely in water-rich conditions
whereas, reproduction for survival is more effort- intensive in water-scarce
conditions.

(a) Explain why this variation in reproduction is required in water hyacinths.

(b) Which mode of reproduction is likely to occur in the following conditions?

(i) abundance of water (ii) scarcity of water

Q2. Vasectomy is a method of contraception in males where the vasa

differentia is tied or sealed so as to prevent sperm from entering the
urethra. The diagram below represents the human female reproductive
system with some of its parts marked P, Q, R, S, T.

(a) Identify the labelled part that will be operated on for 'tubectomy' in

females. State its function.

(b) Kavya says that if part R is removed the female would not be able to

produce eggs. Is she correct? Justify.

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Q3. Flower if the reproductive organ in the plants. Answer the following questions

A) Name the essential and non- essential parts of

the flower.

B) Where the pollen grains developed?

C) Which parts produced fruit and seed after the process of fertilization in

flowering plants?

CASE BASED/ SOURCE BASED

Q1. Menstrual cycle is the cycle of events taking place in female reproductive
organs, under the control of sex hormones, in every 28 days. At an interval of 28
days, a single egg is released from either of two ovaries. Regular menstrual cycle
stopped abruptly in a married woman. She got herself tested and was happy to
discover that she is pregnant with her first baby.
1.1 Write the function of placenta.
1.2 What is the average duration of menstrual flow per month for normal adult
female?
1.3 Give reason why menstruation stops in a pregnant female?

Q2. A newly married couple does not want have children for few years. They
consulted a doctor who advised them barrier method and chemical method of birth
control. Yet another couple who already have two children and are middle aged also
consulted doctor for some permanent solution to avoid unwanted pregnancy. Doctor
advised them surgical method of birth control.
2.1 Give two barrier methods of birth control.
2.2 How oral contraceptive pills prevent pregnancy?
2.3 What are the side effects of using Copper T by females? Irritation of uterus and
can cause infection.
2.4 Which parts of reproductive systems are blocked surgically to control
pregnancies?

Q3. X, Y and Z are three sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). X and Z are caused
by bacteria whereas Y is caused by virus P. Virus P lowers the immunity of a person
and leads to an incurable disease. X starts as painless sores on genitals rectum or
mouth. Z causes painful urination and abnormal discharge from genitals.
3.1 If X: Gonorrhoea, Z: _______?
3.2 Identify virus P from the given paragraph.
3.3 How can disease Y be prevented?