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C hapter 5
THE FUNDAMENTAL UNIT OF LIFE
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following can be made into crystal?
(a) A Bacterium
(b) An Amoeba
(c) A Virus
(d) A Sperm
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11. Which cell organelle plays a crucial role in detoxifying many poisons and
drugs in a cell?
(a) Golgi apparatus
(b) Lysosomes
(c) Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
(d) Vacuoles
12. The proteins and lipids, essential for building the cell membrane, are
manufactured by
(a) rough endoplasmic reticulum
(b) golgi apparatus
(c) plasma membrane
(d) mitochondria
14. The cell organelle involved in forming complex sugars from simple sugars are
(a) endoplasmic reticulum
(b) ribosomes
(c) plastids
(d) golgi apparatus
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26. 1 µm is
(a) 10–6 m
(b) 10–9 m
(c) 10–10 m
(d) 10–3 m
31. Do you agree that “A cell is a building unit of an organism”. If yes, explain
why?
32. Why does the skin of your finger shrink when you wash clothes for a long
time?
37. If you are provided with some vegetables to cook. You generally add salt
into the vegetables during cooking process. After adding salt, vegetables
release water. What mechanism is responsible for this?
38. If cells of onion peel and RBC are separately kept in hypotonic solution,
what among the following will take place? Explain the reason for your
answer.
(a) Both the cells will swell.
(b) RBC will burst easily while cells of onion peel will resist the bursting to
some extent.
(c) a and b both are correct.
(d) RBC and onion peel cells will behave similarly.
39. Bacteria do not have chloroplast but some bacteria are photoautorophic
in nature and perform photosynthesis. Which part of bacterial cell performs
this?
41. Write the name of different plant parts in which chromoplast, chloroplast
and leucoplast are present.
42. Name the organelles which show the analogy written as under
(a) Transporting channels of the cell——
(b) Power house of the cell——
(c) Packaging and dispatching unit of the cell——
(d) Digestive bag of the cell——
(e) Storage sacs of the cell——
(f) Kitchen of the cell——
(g) Control room of the cell——
43. How is a bacterial cell different from an onion peel cell?
44. How do substances like carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) move in and
out of the cell?
45. How does amoeba obtain its food?
46. Name the two organelles in a plant cell that contain their own genetic
material and ribosomes.
48. Which cell organelle controls most of the activities of the cell?
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