PRACTICE TEST - 1 - CHAPTER 5

Welcome to your Ncert - class 9- science-Chapter 5 – The Fundamental Unit of Life

Statement I : All prokaryotes have a cell wall, eukaryotes do not.

Statement II : Prokaryotes have a true nucleus, eukaryotes have a primitive nucleus.

Statement I is true but statement II is false.

Both statement I and statement II are true but statement II is not the correct explanation of statement I.

Both statement I and statement II are true and statement II is the correct explanation of statement I.

Both statement I and statement II are false.

None

If the mother cell cell has 24 chromosomes, the 2 daughter cells formed after mitosis will have ______ chromosomes.

None

Match column I with column II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Column I	Column II
(A) Amoeba, Paramoecium, Chlamydomonas	(p) Lysosomes
(B) Protoplasm	(q) Unicellular organisms
(C) Suicide bags of a cell	(r) Purkinje in 1839
(D) Chromatin material and nucleolus	(s) Schleiden and Schwann
(E) Cell theory	(t) Nucleus

(A)→q,(B)→r,(C)→p,(D)→t,(E)→s

(A)→r,(B)→q,(C)→p,(D)→t,(E)→s

(A)→q,(B)→p,(C)→r,(D)→t,(E)→s

(A)→q,(B)→r,(C)→p,(D)→s,(E)→t

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How do substances like carbon dioxide (CO2 ) and water (H2O) move in and out of the cell?

Facilitated diffusion and diffusion

Active transport

Osmosis

Diffusion and osmosis

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Root hairs absorb water from soil through_______________

Imbibition

Diffusion

All of the above

Osmosis

None

The fact that nucleus possessed the ability to control phenotype was first determined by

Grafting experiments with Acetabularia

Experiments with bacteria that identified DNA polymerase

Transformation experiments with Streptococcus pneumoniae

Experiments with radiolabelled phages

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Which part of the cell helps the transfer of material from the nucleus to the cytoplasm?

Chromatin fibres

None of the above

DNA

Nuclear pores

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What is membrane biogenesis?

Process of forming biological organism

Process of building cell membrane

All of the above

Cell wall formation

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The smallest cell is a _____________ measured between 0.1 to 0.5 micrometre in size.

RBC

Bacteria

Virus

Fungi

None

10.

Movement of ions or molecules against electrochemical gradient is called

Active transport

Brownican movement

Pinocytosis

Diffusion

None

11.

Name one organelle present in a plant, that can make some of its proteins.

Mitochondria

None of the above

Golgi apparatus

Lysosome

None

12.

Match the following correctly.

List I	List II
A) Rough endoplasmic reticulum	1) Amoeba
B) Lysosome	2) Nucleus
C) Nucleoid	3) Bacteria
D) Food vacuoles	4)Ribosomes
E) Chromatin material and nucleolus	5) Suicidal bag

A- 4, B- 5, C- 3, D- 1, E- 2

A- 5, B- 4, C- 1, D- 2, E- 3

A- 1, B- 3, C- 5, D- 2, E- 4

A- 3, B- 2, C- 4, D- 5, E- 1

None

13.

Which component of a plant cell gives it rigidity and shape?

Cell membrane

Nucleus

All of the above

Cell wall

None

14.

The type of cell division that is essential for reproduction is _______.

None of these

Meiosis

Both A and B

Mitosis

None

15.

Identifying feature(s) of onion cell under microscope are___________.

Cell wall

Peripheral nucleus

All of the above

Large vacuole

None

16.

Name two organelles having their own genetic component.

Chloroplast and leucoplast

Golgi apparatus and cell wall

Mitochondria and cell wall

Chloroplast and mitochondria

None

17.

Which of the following is not true about meiosis?

4 daughter cells are formed

None of these

The daughter cells have twice the number of chromosomes as the mother cell

It results in gamete formation

None

18.

Geeta was asked to prepare a temporary mount of onion peel and list the steps. While writing, she wrote the following steps, which may not be in proper sequence. The correct sequence would be

(i) Add a few drops of safranin to the watch glass

(ii) Cover it with a coverslip

(iii) Add a drop of Glycerine

(iv) Take out onion peel

(v) Place the peel in water in a watch glass

(vi) Wash the peel with water and transfer to a clean slide

(vii) Remove the extra water from the slide with blotting paper

(viii) Examine the slide under a microscope

i, ii, iii, iv, v, vii, vi, viii

iv, v, iii, ii, i, vii, vi, viii

v, iv, i, vii, vi, viii, iii, ii

iv, v, i, vi, vii, iii, ii, viii

None

19.

In a plant cell, cytokinesis occurs by

Separation of the cytoplasm from cell centre to its periphery

Separation of the cytoplasm throughout the equatorial plane simultaneously

Furrowing of cytoplasm from two sides at right angles to the plane of spindle pole

Separation of the cytoplasm from the periphery to central region

None

20.

Water molecules move from their ______ concentration to their ______ concentration during osmosis.

Higher, isotonic

Lower, higher

Higher, lower

Isotonic, higher

None

Chapter 5- The Fundamental Unit of Life

Chapter 6 - Tissues

Chapter 12 – Improvement in Food Resources

Curriculum

Ncert - class -9 - Biology

Chapter 5- The Fundamental Unit of Life

Chapter 6 - Tissues

Chapter 12 – Improvement in Food Resources

PRACTICE TEST – 1 – CHAPTER 5 – CLASS 9