Biology

1. If an interphase cell is treated with cyanide (a metabolic poison), the cell does not
divide by
mitosis. However, if cyanide is added right after mitosis has started, the same cell
completes
mitosis. Which of the following explains this observation?
A. Metabolic activity ceases during mitosis
B. Cell division does not require metabolic activity
C. Energy required for mitosis is produced and stored in the cell during interphase
D. Mitotic cells make factors that make them resistant to cyanide
2. The symplast pathway is most easily disrupted when
A. Water transport channels in the plasma membrane of the root hair cells
malfunction
B. Water transport channels in the plasma membrane of the root cortex malfunction
C. Water transport channels in the plasma membrane of the root endodermis
malfunction
D. Water transport channels in the plasma membrane of the guard cells malfunction
3. Paleontological studies use fossil pollen because
A. Pollen retains viability for long periods of time unlike male gametes in animals
B. The intine of pollen is very hard and stable and can be used in rescuing plant
populations on
a decline
C. The exine of pollen retains its structure for long periods of time
D. Soil pollen banks, unlike soil seed banks, stay dormant for long periods of time
4. Which of the following is not an assumption of the Hardy-Weinberg principle?
A. Mating is random in the population
B. There are no mutations
C. All individuals have an equal opportunity to survive and reproduce
D. Immigration and emigration occurs in the population
5. The lens of many vertebrate eyes is a crystallized form of a protein that also
functions in digestion
as a metabolic enzyme. This shows that
A. Vision and digestion co-evolved
B. Digestion necessarily evolved prior to vision since it is a more basic function
C. Evolution in opportunistic
D. Vision and digestion evolved around the same time
6. On which segment of the human chromosome is the enzyme Reverse
Transcriptase located?
A. Centromere
B. Telomere
C. Kinetochore
D. Satellite
7. Muscle X and muscle Y are of the same size, but muscle X is capable of much finer
control than
muscle Y. Which of the following is likely to be true of muscle X?
A. It is controlled by more neurons than muscle Y
B. It contains fewer motor units than muscle Y
C. It is controlled by fewer neurons than muscle Y
D. Each of its motor units consists of more cells than the motor units of muscle Y
8. A National Park associated with rhinoceros is
A. Kaziranga
B. Corbett
C. Ranthambore
D. Valley of Flowers

9. During HIV infection

A. Number of helper T-lymphocytes increase
B. Number of helper T-lymphocytes decrease
C. Number of red blood cells increase
D. Number of red blood cells decrease
10. If the blood groups of the father and mother are AB and B respectively, then
which one of the
following statements is true with respect to their childrens blood group?
A. Blood group is either A or B
B. Blood group is either B or AB
C. Blood group is AB only
D. Blood group can be A or B or AB
11. The sequence of DNA is 5-ATGGTTCCATC-3. What is the sequence of the
complimentary
RNA strand?
A. 5-TACCAAGGTAG-3
B. 3-TACCAAGGTAG-5
C. 3-UACCAAGGUAG-5
D. 5-UACCAAGGUAG-3
12. Which one of the following statements is correct with respect to Biochemical
Oxygen Demand
(BOD)?
A. Secondary treatment of euent decreases the BOD
B. Secondary treatment of euent increases the BOD
C. Secondary treatment of euent does not change the BOD
D. Secondary treatment of euent first increases and then decreases the BOD
13. Which of the following is a general nature of plant-pollinator interactions?
A. Tight one to one co-evolutionary partnership
B. A plant species is pollinated by a few pollinator species
C. Plants rely on deceit to achieve pollination by pollinator species
D. Most pollinators benefit the plant by providing pollinator services, but
disadvantage the plant
at the same time by laying eggs into the flower and thereby negatively a
ects fruit formation
14. Sickle cell anemia is a disease resulting from altered haemoglobin structure. This
alteration is
because of the replacement of a glutamic acid with valine. Indentify the protein
structure level
where this change has been made
A. Primary
B. Secondary
C. Tertiary
D. Quaternary
15. Which of the following life history adaptations is least likely when predation
pressure, on a
fish species that grows in size continuously throughout its lifespan, is concentrated
on the larger
individuals
A. Allocate more resources preferentially to early reproduction than to growth
B. Allocate more resources preferentially to growth than to early reproduction
C. Sexual maturity at an early age
D. Produce more o
spring in very few reproductive seasons
1. Offspring formed by sexual reproduction exhibit more variation than those formed
by asexual reproduction because

A. each gamete has unique genetic composition.

B. sexual reproduction is a lengthy process.
C. genetic material comes from parents of two different species.
D. greater amount of DNA is involved in sexual reproduction.
2. In the human body which element is most abundant by weight and by number
respectively?
A. carbon, hydrogen.
B. oxygen, hydrogen.
C. oxygen, carbon.
D. carbon, nitrogen.
3. Approximately how many cells of staphylococci will be able to fit in the volume of
a human red blood cell?
A. 10.
B. 1000.
C. 10000.
D. 50000.
4. Although intracellular bacterial infection can be treated by giving an antibiotic that
blocks protein synthesis, it doesnt affect human cells. Why?
A. Antibiotic molecules cant enter human cells.
B. Antibiotic gets degraded by human cell.
C. Human ribosomes are different from bacterial ribosomes.
D. Human genetic code is different from bacterial genetic code.
5. Which of the following groups of animals you would expect to evolve chemical
defences against predators?
A. slow moving with hard shell.
B. sedentary without a hard shell.
C. burrowing.
D. arboreal.
6. Which of the following techniques will be useful for tracing the origin of Onge tribe
in Andamans?
A. blood grouping.
B. mitochondrial DNA analysis.
C. DNA fingerprinting.
D. karyotyping.
7. Under which of the following conditions is Semelparous reproduction (where
organisms produces all its offspring in a single reproductive event) is most likely to
be favoured?
A. Adult survival rate is low.
B. Adult survival rate is high.
C. Breeding is perennial.
D. Breeding is seasonal.
8. Which of the following characters is seen only in prokaryotes and not in
eukaryotes?
A. Antibiotic production.
B. Unicellular life.
C. Reproduction by budding.
D. Nitrogen fixation.
9. A scientist wants to express human protein Y in bacteria. For effective expression
of this protein he should use
A. promoter of human gene Y.
B. promoter of bacterial gene.
C. operator of any human gene.
D. operator of any bacterial gene.

10. During growth of an individual animal some components of the body grow in size
but not in number (type 1) while some others increase in number but not in size
(type 2). Which of the following is correct?
A. type 1: bones and muscle cells; type 2: hair follicles, red blood cells and epithelial
cells.
B. type 1: bones and red blood cells; type 2: hair follicles, muscle cells and epithelial
cells.
C. type 1: hair follicles and muscle cells; type 2: bones, red blood cells and epithelial
cells.
D. type 1: epithelial cells and bones; type 2: hair follicles, red blood cells and muscle
cells.
11. Small mammals are not found in polar region because
A. they have small surface to volume ratio.
B. they have large surface to volume ratio.
C. they cannot make burrows because of ice cover.
D. of scarcity of food.
12. Which of the following growth curves represents growth of bacteria in a culture
medium that contains both glucose and lactose?

13. Most stable nucleic acid is

A. DNA.
B. mRNA.
C. rRNA.
D. tRNA.
14. A matured mRNA has 300 bases with a single stop codon. What would be the
length of the polypeptide
synthesized from this mRNA?
A. always 100 amino acids.
B. always 99 amino acids.
C. maximum of 99 amino acids.
D. maximum of 100 amino acids.
15. A diploid organism is heterozygous for four unlinked loci. How may types of
gametes can be produced?
A. 8.
B. 16.
C. 32.
D. 128.