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1. Respiration in Plants takes place through:
Stomata
Lenticels
Both A and B
Only A
2. Consider the following statements:
Respiration takes place both day and night.
Photosynthesis occurs during day time only.
Both A and B are correct.
Neither A nor B are correct.
3. Some plants store waste in their fruits in the form of solid bodies called:
Raphides
Lenticels
Stomata
Resins
4. Name the waste products secreted by Plants?
Carbon Dioxide
Oxygen
Water Vapour
All are correct.
5. Name an extension of the epidermal cells of a root which is in direct contact with the soil?
Root Hairs
Internodes
Bundle Scars
Pith
6. What is the process of intake of nutrients by an organism as well as the utilisation of these nutrients by the organisms called?
Nutrition
Photosynthesis
Chloroplasts
Digestion
7. The mode of nutrition in which an organism makes its own food from the simple inorganic material like carbon dioxide and water present in the surrounding is called:
Heterotrophic nutrition
Saprotrophic nutrition
Autotrophic nutrition
Holozoic nutrition
8. What is the mode of nutrition called in which organisms cannot make its own food from simple inorganic material and depends on other organisms for its food?
Autotrophic nutrition
Heterotrophic nutrition
Parasitic nutrition
Holozoic nutrition
9. When an organism obtains its food from decaying organic matter of dead plants, dead animals and rotten bread, etc., it is called:
Parasitic nutrition
Autotrophic nutrition
Holozoic nutrition
Saprotrophic nutrition
10. The nutrition in which an organism derives its food from the body of another living organism without killing it, it’s called:
Saprotrophic nutrition
Parasitic nutrition
Holozoic nutrition
Autotrophic nutrition
11. The process by which green plants make their own food from carbon dioxide and water by using sunlight energy in the presence of chlorophyll, is called:
Xanthophylls
Stomata
Photosynthesis
Chloroplast
12. Animals which eat only plants are called:
Herbivores
Omnivores
Carnivores
None of the above
13. What is the process of taking food into the body called?
Digestion
Assimilation
Ingestion
Egestion
14. The process in which the food containing large, insoluble, molecules is broken down into small, water soluble molecules is called:
Digestion
Absorption
Ingestion
Assimilation
15. The process of removal of toxic wastes from the body of an organism is called:
Transport
Respiration
Excretion
Nutrition
16. The movement of a plant part in response to light is called:
Phototropism
Geotropism
Chemotropism
Hydrotropism
17. The movement of plant part in response to gravity is called:
Thigmotropism
Hydrotropism
Phototropism
Geotropism
18. The movement of a plant part in response to a chemical stimulus is called:
Hydrotropism
Chemotropism
Thigmotropsim
Phototropism
19. The movement of a plant part in response to water is called:
Geotropism
Hydrotropism
Chemotropism
Thigmotropism
20. The directional movement of a plant part in response to the touch of an object is called:
Phototropism
Geotropism
Thigmotropism
Hydrotropism
21. The non-directional movement of a plant part in response to the touch of an object is called:
Thigmotropism
Thigmonasty
Phototropism
Photonasty
22. The pad-like swelling at the base of each leaf of a sensitive plant is called:
Pistol
Scape
Pulvini
Foliage
23. The non-directional movement of a plant part in response to light is called:
Phototropism
Thigmotropism
Geotropism
Photonasty
24. The shorter fibres on the body of a neuron are called:
Dendrites
Axon
Cytoplasm
Myelin sheath
25. In photosynthesis dark reaction, is called so because-
It occurs in dark.
It does not require light energy.
It cannot occur during daytime.
It occurs more rapidly at night.
26. Rate of photosynthesis does not depend upon:
Quality of light
Intensity of Light
Duration of Light
Temperature
27. For photosynthesis green plants require:
Chlorophyll only
Light
Carbon dioxide and water
All of the above
28. Photosynthesis is a _____ process.
Catabolic
Anabolic
Exothermic
Metabolic
29. Name the pigment which is responsible for absorption of light in plants?
Chlorophyll
Stoma
Xylem
Phloem
30. In bacteria name the colour of light which is responsible for photosynthesis?
Ultra-Violet
Blue
Red
None of the above
31. Quantasomes are found in:
Cristae of mitochondria
Thylakoid membrane of chloroplasts
Nucleus membrane
Lysosome
32. Name the metal present in chlorophyll ‘a’ and ‘b’?
Iron
Copper
Magnesium
Manganese
33. Name the structural unit of photosynthesis?
Thylakoid
Grana
Stroma
Chlorophyll
34. Which of the following statements are true regarding Photosystems?
Photosystems are arrangements of chlorophyll and other pigments packed into thylakoids.
Many Prokaryotes have only one photosystem.
Both A and B are correct.
Only A is correct.
35. What is the first step in photosynthesis:
Generation of ATP
Formation of NADPH
Through light, excitement of an electron of chlorophyll pigment.
Formation of Glucose
36. Due to which reaction PGA is changed into phosphoglyceraldehyde in photosynthesis process?
Oxidation
Reduction
Electrolysis
Hydrolysis
37. What will be the ratio of oxygen produced to that of consumed in daylight hours when the rate of respiration is less than that of photosynthesis?
01:01
10:01
50: 1
05:01
38. In Photosynthesis process, how many molecules of NADPH and ATP are required to reduce six molecules of carbon dioxide to glucose?
3 ATP and 2 NADPH
6 ATP and 6 NADPH
12 ATP and 18 NADPH
18 ATP and 12 NADPH
39. Mention the internal factors that influence photosynthesis?
Size, position and structure of stomata
Maintenance of the turgidity of the leaf cells
Relative proportion and distribution of chloroplasts in the mesophyll
All of the above
40. Name the external factors that affect photosynthesis process?
Light Intensity
Carbon dioxide concentration
Temperature
All of the above
41. What do you understand by NADP?
It is an enzyme
It is a co-enzyme
A part of s-RNA
A part of t-RNA
42. Photosynthesis is :
An Oxidation-Reduction reaction
Synthesis reaction
Synthesis reaction
Replacement reaction
43. Which one of the following waves are used by the common TV remote control?
Radio waves
Lasers
Infrared waves
Ultrasonic waves
44. Which gas is safe and an effective extinguisher for all confined fires?
Nitrogen dioxide
Carbon dioxide
Sulphur dioxide
Nitrous Oxide
45. Which one of the following statements is incorrect about laser?
It is a technique for producing intense beams of light, ultraviolet or infrared radiation of different wavelength.
Even in diamond laser beam can drill a hole.
A variety of lasers have been made from solids like the ruby crystal and semi conducting materials, liquids and gases.
All waves in laser, travel in phase.
46. Which one of the following elements the drum of a Photostat machine is made up of:
Aluminium
Selenium
Barium
Caesium
47. If we say the child has an IQ of 100, what does this means?
The performance of the child is below average.
The performance of the child is above average.
The mental age of the child is equal to his actual age.
The performance of the child cannot be better.
48. Which bacteria is responsible for the formation of curd?
Lactic acid bacteria
Lactobacillus Acidophillus
Lactobacillus aureus
Bacillus radicicola
49. Which one of the following bacteria present in the soil produces a peculiar smell if it rains on perched soil?
Streptomycetes
Staphymycetes
Diplomycetes
Micrococcus
50. In poorly ventilated buildings which one of the following inert gases can be accumulated?
Helium
Neon
Argon
Radon
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