Cell: The Unit Of Life Flashcards
During Grams’ staining which is incorrect?
(1) All bacteria take crystal violet stain
(2) Gram +ve bacteria take crystal violet stain
(3) Only Gram -ve bacteria take crystal violet stain
(4) Gram -ve bacteria lose this stain after alcohol
(3) Only Gram -ve bacteria take crystal violet stain
Hammerling’s experiments on Acetabularia involved exchanging
(1) Cytoplasm
(2) Nucleus
(3) Rhizoid and stalk
(4) Gametes
(3) Rhizoid and stalk
A non-membrane bound organelle found exclusively in animal cells is:
- Sphaerosome
- Glyoxisome
- Peroxisome
- Centriole
- Centriole
Which of the following is the largest constituent
of the membrane of the erythrocyte in human beings and is also responsible for performing most of the functions of the membrane?
1.Proteins
- Lipids
3.Glycolipids
4.Glycoproteins
- Proteins
Cell is the fundamental structural and functional unit of all living organisms because:
(1) Anything less than a complete structure of a cell does not ensure independent living.
(2) The metabolic reactions can only occur inside a living cell.
(3) Nucleic acids present in the cells ensure living state.
(4) The membrane bound organelles cause differentiation for proper functioning.
(1) Anything less than a complete structure of a cell does not ensure independent living.
Who concluded, based on his studies on plant tissues, that the presence of cell wall is a unique character of plant cells?
(1) Mathias Schleiden
(2) Theodore Schwann
(3) Rudolph Virchow
(4) Robert Hooke
(2) Theodore Schwann
Mesosomes in prokaryotes do not help in:
- Cell wall formation
- DNA replication
- Respiration
- Photosynthesis
- Photosynthesis
The endomembrane system of a eukaryotic cell does not include:
- Endoplasmic reticulum
- Lysosome
- Vacuole
- Peroxisome
- Peroxisome
The cis and trans faces of the Golgi Apparatus are:
- Similar but not interconnected
- Similar and interconnected
- Entirely different but interconnected
- Entirely different and not interconnected
- Entirely different but interconnected
Plastids used in storing proteins are called as:
- Amyloplasts
- Aleuroplasts
- Elaioplasts
- Chromoplasts
- Aleuroplasts
A centriole-like structure, from which the cilium and the flagellum emerge, is the:
- Centrosome
- Basal body
- Axoneme
- Vimentin
- Basal body
The outer membrane of the nucleus:
I. is continuous with the Endoplasmic reticulum
II. does not bear ribosomes.
- Only I is correct
- Only II is correct
- Both I and II are correct
- Both I and II are incorrect
- Only I is correct
If the centromere is situated close to the end of a chromosome, it is called as:
- Metacentric
- Submetacentric
- Acrocentric
- Telocentric
- Acrocentric
Centrioles, cilia, flagella, and basal bodies have remarkably similar structural elements and arrangements. This leads us to which of the following as a probable hypothesis?
- Disruption of one of these types of structure should necessarily disrupt each of the others as well.
- Loss of basal bodies should lead to loss of all cilia, flagella, and centrioles.
- Motor proteins such as dynein must have evolved before any of these four kinds of structure.
- Natural selection for motility must select for microtubular arrays in circular patterns.
- Natural selection for motility must select for microtubular arrays in circular patterns.
The presence of cholesterol in the plasma membranes of some animals.
- enables the membrane to stay fluid more easily when cell temperature drops.
- enables the animal to remove hydrogen atoms from saturated phospholipids.
- enables the animal to add hydrogen atoms to unsaturated phospholipids.
- makes the membrane less flexible, allowing it to sustain greater pressure from within the cell.
- enables the membrane to stay fluid more easily when cell temperature drops.
Prokaryotic cells have something unique in the form of:
- Inclusion bodies
- Plasmids
- Cell wall
4.70 S ribosomes
- Inclusion bodies
Gas vacuoles allow cyanobacteria to:
- Store carbon dioxide for assimilation
- Control their buoyancy
- Provide anaerobic conditions to nitrogenase
- Eliminate toxic ammonia
- Control their buoyancy
The lipid component of the plasma membrane mainly consists of:
- Triglycerides
- Cholesterol
- Phosphoglycerides
4 Proteins
- Phospoglycerides
Carotenoid pigments are found in:
I. Chloroplasts
II. Chromoplasts
III. Leucoplasts
(1) Only I
(2) Only I and II
(3) Only II
(4) I, II and III
(2) Only I and II
Microbodies, which help to convert stored lipids into carbohydrates so they can be used for plant growth, are known as:
- Peroxisomes
- Sphaerosomes
- Glyoxysomes
- Lysosomes
- Glyoxysomes
Ribosomes are produced in
- Nucleolus
- Mitochondria
- Cytoplasm
- Golgibody
- Nucleolus
All the following are the part of a eukaryotic cell endomembranous system except:
- Vacuole
- Lysosome
- Golgi complex
- Mitochondria
- Mitochondria
A feature unique to prokaryotes would be:
- A cell wall not made up of cellulose
- An extrachromosomal plasmid DNA
- A cell membrane of peptidoglycan
- Presence of inclusions
- Presence of inclusions
Chromatophores are:
- present in liopolysaccharide layer of gram negative bacteria
- colored pigments present in fluorescent
bacteria
- vesicles that store pigments in prokaryotic cells
- extensions on membrane in cynobacteria
- extensions on membrane in cynobacteria
The tail of the phospholipid molecule:
- is hydrophilic and composed of phosphate
- is hydrophilic and composed of saturated hydrocarbons
- is hydrophobic and composed of saturated hydrocarbons
- is hydrophobic and composed of unsaturated hydrocarbons in cynobacteria
- is hydrophobic and composed of saturated hydrocarbons
In animal cells, lipid-like steroidal hormones are synthesized in the:
- Nucleus
- Rough endoplasmic reticulum
- Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
- Golgi apparatus
- Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
Unless specifically stained by a vital stain like Janus Green, which of the following will not be visible under a microscope?
- Rough endoplasmic reticulum
- Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
- Golgi apparatus
- Mitochondria
- Mitochondria
Fat soluble pigments like xanthophylls are present in:
- Chromoplasts
- Aleuroplasts
- Elaioplasts
- Amyloplasts
- Chromoplasts
Proteins that are to be used outside the cell are synthesized:
- in the mitochondria
- on the rough endoplasmic reticulum
- on the smooth endoplasmic reticulum
- on free ribosomes
- on the rough endoplasmic reticulum
The two types of cellular organelles that transform energy are:
(1) Chromoplasts and Leucoplasts
(2) Mitochondria and Chloroplasts
(3) Mitochondria and Endoplasmic reticulum
(4) Chloroplasts and Golgi apparatus
(2) Mitochondria and Chloroplasts
The arrangement of outer and central microtubules in a cilium is called the:
- 9 + 1 pattern
- 9 +0 pattern
- Flagellin pattern
- 9 +2 pattern
- 9 + 2 pattern
Which of the following structure is not found in a prokaryotic cell?
(1) Nuclear envelope
(2) Ribosome
(3) Mesosome
(4) Plasma membrane
(1) Nuclear envelope
Algae have cell wall made up of
(1) cellulose, galactans and mannans
(2) hemicellulose, pectins and proteins
(3) pectins, cellulose and proteins
(4) cellulose, hemicellulose and pectins
(1) cellulose, galactans and mannans
Pigment-containing membranous extensions in some cyanobacteria are
(1) heterocysts
(2) basal bodies
(3) pneumatophores
(4) chromatophores
(4) chromatophores
Which among the following are the smallest living cells, known without a definite cell wall, pathogenic to plants as well as animals and can survive without oxygen?
(1) Bacillus
(2) Pseudomonas
(3) Mycoplasma
(4) Nostoc
(3) Mycoplasma
Which of the following cell organelles is responsible for extracting energy from carbohydrates to form ATP?
(1) Lysosome
(2) Ribosome
(3) Chloroplast
(4) Mitochondrion
(4) Mitochondrion
Select the mismatch.
- Gas vacuoles - Green bacteria Cells
- Large central vacuoles - Animal cells
- Protists Eukaryotes
- Methanogens - Prokaryotes
- Large central vacuoles - Animal cells
Select the wrong statement.
(1) Bacterial cell wall is made up of peptidoglycan
(2) Pili and fimbriae are mainly involved in motility of bacterial cells
(3) Cyanobacteria lack flagellated cells
(4) Mycoplasma is a wall-less microorganism
(2) Pili and fimbriae are mainly involved in motility of bacterial cells