Biology Question Bank

Class: IX Level-3
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
2. Find out the false sentences
(a) Golgi apparatus is involved with the formation of lysosomes
(b) Nucleus, mitochondria and plastid have DNA; hence they are able to
make their own structural proteins
(c) Mitochondria is said to be the power house of the cell as ATP is
generated in them.
(d) Cytoplasm is called as protoplasm
3. Which of these options are not a function of Ribosomes?
(i) It helps in manufacture of protein molecules
(ii) It helps in manufacture of enzymes
(iii) It helps in manufacture of hormones
(iv) It helps in manufacture of starch molecules
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (ii) and (iii)
(c) (iii) and (iv)
(d) (iv) and (i)
4. Which of these is not related to endoplasmic reticulum?
(a) It behaves as transport channel for proteins between nucleus and
cytoplasm
(b) It transports materials between various regions in cytoplasm
(c) It can be the site of energy generation
(d) It can be the site for some biochemical activities of the cell
5. Find out the correct sentence
(a) Enzymes packed in Lysosomes are made through RER (rough
endoplasmic reticulum)
(b) Rough endoplasmic reticulum and smooth endoplasmic reticulum
produce lipid and protein respectively
(c) Endoplasmic reticulum is related with the destruction of plasma
membrane
(d) Nucleoid is present inside the nucleoplasm of eukaryotic nucleus
6. Which of these is not related to endoplasmic reticulum?
(a) It behaves as transport channel for proteins between nucleus and
cytoplasm
(b) It transports materials between various regions in cytoplasm
(c) It can be the site of energy generation
(d) It can be the site for some biochemical activities of the cell

7. The cell organelle involved in forming complex sugars from simple sugars
are
(a) endoplasmic reticulum
(b) ribosomes
(c) plastids
(d) Golgi apparatus
8. Cell wall of which one of these is not made up of cellulose?
(a) Bacteria
(b) Hydrilla
(c) Mango tree
(d) Cactus
9. Silver nitrate solution is used to study
(a) endoplasmic reticulum
(b) Golgi apparatus
(c) nucleus
(d) mitochondria
10.Select the odd one out
(a) The movement of water across a semi permeable membrane is affected
by the amount of substances dissolved in it.
(b) Membranes are made of organic molecules like proteins and lipids
(c) Molecules soluble in organic solvents can easily pass through the
membrane.
(d) Plasma membranes contain chitin sugar in plants
1 Mark questions:
1. Name the book written by Robert Hooke on his discovery of cell.
2. What is the name given to the model proposed of plasma
membrane by singer and Nicolson?
3. what is chromatin?
4. Which cellular content is named as factory of ribosome and why?
5. What is nucleosome?
6. Name a structure responsible for transmission of hereditary
information which becomes visible only at the time of cell division.
7. Name a human cell which do not have nucleus.
8. Where does the ATP is synthesised in mitochondria?
9. Differentiate between rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum?
10. What is protoplasm and nucleoplasm?
11. Do you agree that “A cell is a building unit of an organism”. If yes,
explain why?
12. Name any cell organelle which is non membranous.
13. What provides different colours to spinach, papaya, etc?
14. What are fibres?
15. What minerals is the bone matrix rich in?
16. Name the water conducting tissue generally present in
gymnosperms.
2 Mark questions:

1. Why does the skin of your finger shrink when you wash clothes for a long
time?
2. Why is endocytosis found in animals only?
3. We eat food composed of all the nutrients like carbohydrates, proteins,
fats, vitamins, minerals and water. After digestion, these are absorbed in
the form of glucose, amino acids, fatty acids, glycerol etc. What
mechanisms are involved in absorption of digested food and water?
4. 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.
i. Both the cells will swell.
ii. RBC will burst easily while cells of onion peel will resist the
bursting to some extent.
iii. a and b both are correct.
iv. RBC and onion peel cells will behave similarly.
5. Bacteria do not have chloroplast but some bacteria are photoautotrophic
in nature and perform photosynthesis. Which part of bacterial cell
performs this?
6. How are chromatin, chromatid and chromosomes related to each other?
7. With the help of a diagram show the cells in the onion peel.
8. Name the different type of transport system across the cell
membrane.
9. What is active transport?
10. An egg after removing its shell by putting it in dilute
hydrochloric
acid solution is placed in two different solutions. What will happen
when egg is placed in?
(a) In pure water
(b) In concentrated salt solution
11. Write the chemical composition of cytoplasm.
12. Why is blood called connective tissue?
4 Mark questions: Case based questions:
1. Plant cells, in addition to the plasma membrane, have another rigid
outer covering called the cell wall. The cell wall lies outside the
plasma membrane. The plant cell wall is mainly composed of
cellulose. Cellulose is a complex substance and provides structural
strength to plants. When a living plant cell loses water through
osmosis there is shrinkage or contraction of the contents of the cell
away from the cell wall. This phenomenon is known as plasmolysis.
(1) Which of the following is the main constituent of cell wall?
(a) Proteins
(b) Lipids
(c) Lipoproteins
(d) Cellulose
(2) Which of the following is outer most covering of the plant cell?
(a) Cell membrane
(b) Plasma membrane
(c) Cell wall
(d) Cellulose
(3) Choose the correct set of statements from the following.
Statement 1 – Cell wall lies outside the plasma membrane.
Statement 2 – Cell wall is mainly composed of cellulose.
Statement 3 – Cellulose is a complex substance and provides
structural strength to plants.
Statement 4 – Cell wall lies outside the plasma membrane.
(a) Statement 1 & 3
(b) Statement 1 & 2
(c) Statement 3 & 4
(d) All statements are correct
 (4) What is mean by plasmolysis?
(5) What is the reason behind structural strength of plant cell?
2. Every cell has a membrane around it to keep its own contents
separate from the external environment. Large and complex cells,
including cells from multicellular organisms, need a lot of chemical
activities to support their complicated structure and function. To
keep these activities of different kinds, separate from each other,
these cells use membrane-bound little structures within themselves.
The cytoplasm is the jelly like fluid content inside the plasma
membrane which contains many specialised cell organelles. Such as
Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi apparatus, Lysosomes, Ribosomes,
Nucleus, Chloroplast, Mitochondria and Plastids. Each of these
organelles performs a specific function for the cell. Some of these
organelles are visible only with an electron microscope. They are
important because they carry out some very crucial functions in cells.
(1) Identify the statement which is true for cells.
Statement 1 – Some cell organelles are visible only with an electron
microscope.
Statement 2 – Cytoplasm is jelly like fluid present inside the cell.
Statement 3 – Cell organelles perform all the functions in cell.
Statement 4 – Every cell has a membrane around it to keep its own
contents separate from the external environment.
(a) Statement 1 & 3
(b) Statement 2 & 4
(c) Statement 1 & 4
(d) All statement are true.
(2) A suitable term for the various components of cells is ________
(a) tissue
(b) cell organelles
(c) chromosomes
(d) genes
 (3) The jelly-like fluid substance present in cells is called __________
(a) Protoplasm
(b) Chromosome
(c) Chloroplast
(d) Cytoplasm
(4) What are cell organelles?
(5) Enlist the any five cell organelles.
3. The Golgi apparatus, first described by Camilo Golgi, consists of a
system of membrane-bound vesicles (flattened sacs) arranged
approximately parallel to each other in stacks called cisterns. These
membranes often have connections with the membranes of ER and
therefore constitute another portion of a complex cellular membrane
system. The material synthesised near the ER is packaged and
dispatched to various targets inside and outside the cell through the
Golgi apparatus. Its functions include the storage, modification and
packaging of products in vesicles. In some cases, complex sugars may
be made from simple sugars in the Golgi apparatus. The Golgi
apparatus is also involved in the formation of lysosomes
(1) Who discovered endoplasmic reticulum?
(a) Porter and Thompson
(b) Robert Brown
(c) Robert Hooke
(d) Camilo Golgi
(2) A system of membrane-bound flattened sacs arranged
approximately parallel to each other in stacks are called as
_________
(a) Cisterns
(b) Vesicles
(c) Golgi complex
(d) Vacuoles
(3) Membrane bound flattened sacs is termed as _________
 (a) Cisterns
(b) Vesicles
(c) Golgi complex
(d) Vacuoles
(4) Enlist the function of Golgi apparatus.
(5) Name the cell organelles which is involved in the formation of
lysosomes?
5 Mark questions:

1. Write differences between mitosis and meiosis?

2. Draw a plant cell and label the parts which
(a) determines the function and development of the cell
(b) packages materials coming from the endoplasmic reticulum
(c) provides resistance to microbes to withstand hypotonic external media
without bursting
(d) is site for many biochemical reactions necessary to sustain life.
(e) is a fluid contained inside the nucleus
3. Differentiate between rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum. How is
endoplasmic reticulum important for membrane biogenesis?
4. Draw a neat diagram of plant cell and label any three parts which
differentiate it from animal cell.

6. Tissues
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Skin of hand is composed of:
(a) muscular tissue (b) connective tissue (c) nervous tissue (d) epithelial
tissue
2. Stomata are found:
(a) in the epidermis of leaf (b) in xylem (c) in phloem (d) collenchyma

3. Which muscles act involuntarily?

(i) Striated muscles (ii) Smooth muscles (iii) Cardiac muscles (iv) Skeletal
muscles
(a) (i) and (ii) (b) (ii) and (iii) (c) (iii) and (iv) (d) (i) and (iv)
4. Which is not a function of epidermis?
(a) Protection from adverse condition (b) Gaseous exchange (c) Conduction
of water (d) Transpiration
 1 Mark questions

1. Name the branch of biology which deals with the study of tissues.
2. What are growth tissues?
3. What is differentiation?
4. Where is the packing tissue of plants found?
5. Name the parenchyma specialized to perform photosynthesis.
6. Collenchyma tissue is situated at which part of plant?
7. What happens to the cells formed by the Meristematic tissue?

2 Mark questions
1. If a potted plant is covered with a glass jar, water vapour appears on
the wall of glass jar. Explain why?
2. Name the different components of xylem and draw a living component.
3. What is the role of epidermis in plants?
4. Why xylem and phloem called complex tissues?
5. What are the main differences between cheek cells and onion peel cells?
6. What is glandular epithelium? What is its structure?
7. Meristematic tissue cells have a prominent nucleus and dense cytoplasm but
they lack vacuole. Give reason.
3 Mark questions
1. Differentiate between Animal and plant tissue.
2. Show with a help of an experiment show apical meristem causes growth in
length of plant.
3. Differentiate between the three different simple tissue present in plants.
4. Parenchyma is very important for plants. Justify.
5. Plants requires less energy than animals. Give reason.
6. A Gardner was cutting the excess plants growing in the garden by mistake he
cuts the apical meristem of a plant. What will happen? Will there be any
change in the growth of the plant?
7. State the difference between bone and blood.

4 Mark questions
1. Blood is a type of connective tissue. The cells of connective tissue are
loosely spaced and embedded in an intercellular matrix. The matrix may
be jelly like, fluid, dense or rigid. The nature of matrix differs in
concordance with the function of the particular connective tissue.

Blood has a fluid (liquid) matrix called plasma, in which red blood corpuscles
(RBCs), white blood corpuscles (WBCs) and platelets are suspended. The
plasma contains proteins, salts and hormones. Blood flows and transports
gases, digested food, hormones and waste materials to different parts of the
body.

Bone is another example of a connective tissue. It forms the framework that

supports the body. It also anchors the muscles and supports the main organs
of the body. It is a strong and nonflexible tissue. Bone cells are embedded in
a hard matrix that is composed of calcium and phosphorus compounds. Two
 bones can be connected to each other by another type of connective tissue
called the ligament. This tissue is very elastic.

Another type of connective tissue, cartilage, has widely spaced cells. The solid
matrix is composed of proteins and sugars. Cartilage smoothens bone
surfaces at joints and is also present in the nose, ear, trachea and larynx.

Areolar connective tissue is found between the skin and muscles, around
blood vessels and nerves and in the bone marrow. It fills the space inside the
organs, supports internal organs and helps in repair of tissues.

(1) A connective tissue

(a) Has no matrix

(b) Covers the skin

(c) Has abundant matrix

(d) None of these

(2) Areolar connective tissue is found between

(a) Skin and muscles

(b) Blood vessels and nerves

(c) Both a & b

(d) None of these

(3) Two bones are connected to each other by another type of

connective tissue called__

(a) Ligament

(b) Cartilage

(c) Bone marrow

(d) Blood

(4) What are the function of connective tissue?

(5) Give the examples of connective tissue.

5 Mark questions
1. Give reasons for
a. Meristematic cells have a prominent nucleus and dense
cytoplasm but they lack vacuole.
b. Intercellular spaces are absent in sclerenchymatous tissues.
c. We get a crunchy and granular feeling, when we chew pear
fruit.
d. Branches of a tree move and bend freely in high wind
velocity.
e. It is difficult to pull out the husk of a coconut tree.
2. Write the procedure of preparing a slide of onion cell and what can you
observe from the slide.
3. Explain the procedure to prepare the slide of stem with the help of a
diagram.
4. Explain the structure, function and location of nervous tissue.
5. Name the tissues for the following:
(a) Stores fat in animal body.
(b) Divides and re-divides to grow in plants.
(c) Tissue that joins bone to bone.
(d) Covers the external surface of animal body.