FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION

2016-2017
Class XII
BIOLOGY
Time: 3 hrs.
Marks: 70
General Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. This question paper consists of Five sections (A,B,C,D,E)
Section A consists of 5 questions of 1 mark each.
Section B consists of 5 questions of 2 marks each.
Section C is of 12 questions of 3 marks each.
Section D is of 1 value based question of 4 marks.
Section E is of 3 questions of 5 marks each.
3. There is no overall choice. However an internal choice has been provided in one
question of 2 marks and one question of 3 marks and all the three questions of 5marks
each. Attempt only one of the choices in such questions.
4 Wherever necessary, the diagrams drawn should be neat and properly labelled.
SECTION A
Q1.
Q2.
Q3.
Q4.
Q5.

Q6.
Q7.

Q8.
Q9.
Q10.

In the whiptail lizards only females are born generation after generation. There are no
males. How is this possible?
List the types of RNA polymerases found in the cell. How are they different from each
other?
Mention what caused evolution according to de Vries.
What is convergent evolution?
Name the plant source of the drug popularly known as smack. How does it affect the
body of the abuser?
SECTION B
What are the parameters of senescence or old age?
Give reasons why:
(i) Most zygotes in angiosperms divide only after certain amount of endosperm is formed
(ii) Groundnut seeds are exalbuminous and castor seeds are albuminous
(iii) Micropyle remains as a small pore in the seed coat of a seed.
(iv) Integuments of an avolue harden and the water content is highly reduced, as the
seed matures.
How do the copper and hormone releasing IUDs act as contraceptives?
What are the characteristics of genetic code?
In which part of the human female reproductive system do the following events take
place?
(i) Release of 1st polar body.
(ii) Release of 2nd polar body.
(iii) Fertilisation
(iv) Implantation

SECTION C
(a) Draw a diagrammatic sectional view of a mature anatropous ovule and label the
following parts in it:
(i) That develops into seed coat.
(ii) That develops into an embryo after fertilization.
(iii) That develops into an endosperm in an albuminous seed.
(iv) Through which the pollen tube gains entry into the embryo sac
(v) That attaches the ovule to the placenta
(b) Describe the characteristic features of wind pollinated flowers.
Q12.
(a)
Explain the menstrual phase in a human female. State the levels of ovarian and
pituitary hormones during this phase.
(b)
Explain the events that occur in a Graafian follicle at the time of ovulation and
thereafter.
(c)
Draw a Graafian follicle and label antrum and secondary oocyte.

Q11.

Q13.

Q13.
Q14.
Q15.

Q16.

Q17.
Q18.

(a)
Trace the development of embryo after syngamy in a dicot plant.
(b)
Endosperm development proceeds embryo development. Explain.
(c)
Draw a diagram of a mature dicot embryo and label cotyledons, plumule, radicle
and hypocotyl in it.
OR
Starting from zygote, draw diagrams of different stages of embryo development in dicot.
(a)
Explain the permanent methods of birth control.
(b)
Explain the zygote intra fallopian transfer technique (ZIFT).How is intra uterine
transfer technique (IUT) different from it?
Give the type of disease in following with symptoms :(i)
Haemophilia
(ii)
Sickle Cell Anemia
(iii)
Trisomy
In cattle, hornless (H) is dominant over horned (h) and black (B) is dominant over red (b)
Consider that these two pairs of genes assort independently.
(i)
What proportion of the offspring from the cross BbHh x bbhh would be black and
hornless?
(ii)
From the cross Bbhh x Bbhh, how many will be black and horned, red and
horned and red and hornless?
What is hnRNA? Explain the changes hnRNA undergoes during its processing to form
mRNA.
(a)
Write Hardy-Weinberg principle.
(b)
Explain the three different ways the natural selection can affect the frequency of
a heritable trait in a population shown in the graph given ahead.

Q19.

(a)

Q20

Study the diagram showing replication of HIV in humans and answer the following
questions accordingly:
(i)
Write the chemical nature of the coat A
(ii)
Name the enzyme B acting on X to produce molecule C.Name C.
(iii)
Mention the name of the host cell D the HIV attacks first when it enters into the
human body.
(iv)
Name the two different cells that the new viruses E subsequently attack.

Q21

Q22

Name the respective forms in which the malarial parasite gain entry into
(i)
Human body and
(ii)
Body of female Anopheles.
(b)
Name the hosts where sexual and asexual reproduction of malarial parasite
occurs respectively.
(c)
Name the toxin responsible for the appearance of symptoms of malaria in
humans. Why do these symptoms occur periodically?

(a)
How do automobiles fitted with catalytic converters reduce air pollution? Suggest
the best fuel for such vehicles.
(b)
Explain accelerated eutrophication. Mention any two consequences of this
phenomenon.
(a)
What is El Nino effect? Explain how it accounts for biodiversity loss.
(b)
Explain any three measures that you as an individual would take, to reduce
environmental pollution.

SECTION D
Q23.

Municipal Corporation has deputed personnels to check for mosquito breeding in your
school. Answer the following questions based on the above information:
(i)
Which are the places they should check for mosquitoes and there larvae?
(ii)
Name two diseases which are spread by mosquitoes.
(iii)
Name any two biological agents which can be used to control mosquitoes.
SECTION E

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Q26.

A woman has conceived and implantation has occurred in her uterus. Explain the
sequence of changes up to parturition which take place within her body.
OR
(a)
Placenta acts as an endocrine tissue. Justify.
(b)
(i)
Draw a sectional view of seminiferous tubule of a human. Label the
following cells in the seminiferous tubule:
(a)
Cells that divide by mitosis to increase their number.
(b)
Cells that undergo Meiosis I
(c)
Cells that undergo Meiosis II
(d)
Cells that help in the process of spermiogenesis.
(ii)
Mention the role of Leydig cells
(a)
(i)
Name the pattern of inheritance where F,Phenotype
(I) does not resemble either of two parents and is in between two.
(II) Resembles only one of the parents.
(b)
Draw a neat labelled diagram of a nucleosome.
(c)
Colour blindness is a recessive trait. A couple with normal vision has two sons,
one colour blind and one with normal vision. If the couple also has daughters.
What proportion of them will have normal vision?
(d)
What is heterogamety.Explain with example?
OR
(a)
In a cross between a black and a white guinea pig, all F1 members are black but
F2 generation raised by crossing two such F1 consists of approximately black and
white guinea pigs.
(i)
What are possible genotypes at each level?
(ii)
What will offspring be like if two F2 white are mated?
(b)
A tall smooth seeded plant (Tt Ss) is crossed to a dwarf and wrinkled seeded
plant (ttss). What would be phenotypic and genotypic ratio of the progeny?
(c)
What is complete linkage?
(a)
(b)

Q26.

(a)
(b)

Give Reasons:
(i)
Both strands of DNA are not copied during transcription.
(ii)
Transcription and translation in bacteria can be coupled.
What is an operon? Draw the structure of lac operon. How does it get switched
on?
OR
Describe the process of replication of DNA with diagram.
What is the principle of DNA fingerprinting? What are the steps of DNA
fingerprinting?