MDCAT BIOLOGY MCQS BY HAMZULLAH KHAN LECTURER BIOLOGY GOVT DEGREE COLLEGE LIAQUAT

PUR DISTT RYK

1. The cells of plants and animals can be distinguished by the presence or absence of:
a) Nucleusb) Cell wall c) Mitochondria d) Nucleus
2. Most of the plant cells don’t have:
a) Cell wall, nucleus & vacuole b) Centriole, cytoskeleton & peroxisomes
c) Lysosome, peroxisome & Glyoxysome d) Flagellum, centriole & lysosome
3. Mature plant cells do not have:
a) Single small vacuole b) Many small vacuoles c) Single large vacuoles d) Many large
vacuoles
4. Phagocytosis is the common character of:
a) Plant cell b) Bacterial cell c) Animal cell d) All A,B,C
5. Cytoskeleton is present in all of the following except:
a) Plant cells b) Fungal cells
c) Animal cells d) Bacterial cells
6. Genetic material of a prokaryotic cell is found in:
a) Nucleusb) Mitochondria c) Cytoplasm d) Chloroplast
7. A prokaryotic cell wall divides by:
a) Mitosis b) Binary fission c) Meiosis d) Multiple fission
8. Prokaryotic cell wall does not contain:
a) Peptidoglycan b) Long polysaccharide chains c) Murein d) Long amino
acid chains
9. Which of the following structure are chemically same in bacterial and eukaryotic cells?
a) Cell membrane b) Flagella c) Cell wall d) Ribosomes
10. Which of the following proteins are absent in prokaryotic cells?
a) Histone b) Histone & tubulin c) Tubulin d) Flagella & pili
11. Most abundant components of plasma membrane are:
a) Lipids b) Proteins c) Carbohydrates d) Nucleic acids
12. Lipid bilayer in cell membrane is made from:
a) Acyl glycerol b) Sterols c) Phospholipids d) Cholesterol
13. According to unit membrane model, which parts are directed towards each other’s?
a) Hydrophobic zone of lipid b) Hydrophobic zone of protein c) Hydrophilic
zone of lipids d) Hydrophilic zone of protein
14. According to fluid mosaic model of plasma membrane protein molecules are:
a) Sandwiched between lipids layers b) Embedded like mosaic c) Pepsin d)
Present only on surface of lipids
15. Transport of materials through charged pores of plasma membrane occur by:
A Active transport b) Peptidase c) Passive transport d) both actives & passive
transport
16. Which of the following forms extracellular matrix of a cell
a) Phospholipids b) Ptyalin c) Integral protein d) Water
17. Chemical nature of muscle is
a) Glycolipid b) Nucleoprotein c) Lipoprotein d) Glycoprotein
18. Which of the following is not made of tubulin.

a) pili b) flagella c) cilia d) centrioles

19. Pick out plant cell characteristic

a) nucleus lies at the center b) possesses many small nuclei c) mitochondria are fewer d)
mitochondria are numerous

20. Externally plant cell is identified by having

a. vacuole b) cell wall c) plastids d) glyoxisomes

21. Phospholipid molecules of plasma membrane are found in:

a) Parallel arrangement b) alternate arrangement c) scattered arrangement d)

zigzag arrangement

22. Diffusion and osmosis are two types of

a) Active transport b) passive transport c) uphill movement d) facilitated transport

23. Which of the following surface of the cell membrane is hydrophilic?

a) Inner b) outer c) both outer and inner d) neither of them is hydrophilic

24. Within a single cell, which of the following is physically smallest?

a) Mitochondria b) nuclear envelope c) cell membrane d) phospholipid molecule

25. Specialized peroxisomes involved in conversion of lipids to carbohydrates are called

a) phagosomes b) secondary lysosomes c) glyoxisomes d) centrosomes

26. These two organelles have some properties in common

a) Golgi complex, mitochondria b) mitochondria, ER c) mitochondria, peroxisomes d) Golgi

complex, lysosomes

27. The enzyme called luciferase is present in

a) Lysosome b) mitochondria c) peroxisome d) glyoxisome

28. The inner and outer membrane of mitochondria are opposite in concentrations of ____________
and ___________

a) lipids,proteins b) cholesterol, proteins c) carbohydrates, proteins d) lipids,

carbohydrates

29.Lysosomes eating cell’s own parts is

(a) Phagosome (b) Secondary lysosome (c) Residual body (d) Autophagosome
30. Which of the following is the secondary lysosome?

a) Food vacuole b) vesicle released from ER c) vesicle just released from Golgi bodies
d) digestive vacuoles

1. Each Centriole contains

(a) 9 microtubules (b) 27 microtubules (c) 6 microtubules (c) 10 microtubules
2. Digestive enzymes are
(a) Transferases (b) Lyases (c) Ligases (d) Hydrolases
3. It can break down fatty and acid to Succinate:
(a) Peroxisome (c) Glyoxisomes (c) Lysosomes (d) Golgi bodies
4. Digestive vacuoles are
(a) Primary lysosome (b) Secondary lysosome (c) Vacuole (d) All of these
5. They are involved in internal cell motion
(a) Microtubules (b) Microfilaments (c) Intermediate filaments (d) All of these
6. Plants do not have _________ in their cells:
(a) Protein (b) Starch (b) Glycogen (d) All of these
7. They are organelles of symbiotic origin:
(a) Nucleus & mitochondria (b) Golgi & ER (c) Chloroplast & mitochondria (d) None of
these
8. There are ___________ kinds of ribosome’s submits found in living things
A) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5
9. Nuclear outer membrane is continuous with
(a) ER (b) Golgi bodes (c) Centrioles (d) Both a & b
10. Lysosomes eating cell’s own parts is
(a) Phagosome (b) Secondary lysosome (c) Residual body (d) Autophagosome
11. Polysome is formed during _________ process
(a) Transcription (b) Secretion (c) Translation (d) Division
12. The substances which can cross the cell membrane easily
(a) Lipid soluble (b) Water soluble (c) Inorganic ions (d) Organic ions
13. Ribosome factory is:
(a) RER (b) SER (c) Nucleus (d) Nucleolus
14. Which have some difficulty in crossing cell membrane?
(a) Steroids (b) Gas (c) Glucose (d) Ions
15. The process of taking in material by enfolding in the form of vacuoles is
(a) Endocytosis (b) Phagocytosis (c) Pinocytosis (d) Oligocytosis
16. In muscle cells which of these conducts impulses?
(a) Nucleus (b) Cytoplasm (c) Golgi bodies (d) Smooth ER
17. Peroxisomes are present in which of these cells?
(a) Plants cells (b) Animals (c) Yeast cell (d) All of these
18. Diameter of Peroxisome is ________ micrometer:
(a) 0.6 (b) 0.5 (c) 0.4 (d) 0.9
19. Old mitochondria are digested in which of the process?
(a) Autophagy (b) Autolysis (c) Autophagosomy (d) None of these
20. Viral genome is composed of
a. DNA only b. RNA only c. DNA or RNA d. DNA, RNA and
protein