Biology

The Fundamental Unit of Life

Question:

Who is known as 'Father of Microscopy'?

Answer:

Antony van Leeuwenhoek
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The Fundamental Unit of Life

Q 1.

Name the sac like structure which form the grana?

Q 2.

Identify cell organelle and write down its name:
Called 'suicide bags' of a cell.

Q 3.

What is the full form of DNA and RNA?

Q 4.

Give examples of cells which are muti-nucleate (i.e. having many nuclei).

Q 5.

Identify cell organelle and write down its name:
Slipper or oval shaped, its inner membrane is multi-folded and has lot of chemical activity

Q 6.

Identify cell organelle and write down its name:
Powehouse of cell

Q 7.

Identify cell organelle and write down its name:
Membrane-bound vesicles arranged approximately parallel to each other. Active in synthesis, modification, sorting, and Secretion of cell products

Q 8.

Define Exocytosis.

Q 9.

Who discovered Golgi apparatus?

Q 10.

What are the function of nucleus?

Q 11.

Identify cell organelle and write down its name:
A tough, non-living layer, it prevents plant cells from bursting, freely permeable

Q 12.

What is the energy currency of the cell called?

Q 13.

Which organelle of the cell in animals helps in osmregulation?

Q 14.

Why can't single cells grow very large? Or Big organisms like human beings are multi-cellular? Why can't such big organisms be a single large cell?

Q 15.

Who discovered nucleus in the cell?

Q 16.

What is diffusion?

Q 17.

Put dried raisins in plain water and leave them for some time. Then place them in concentrated solution of sugar or salt. What do you observe in both cases?

Q 18.

Are plastids present in all cells? What are its types?

Q 19.

What are the components nucleus?

Q 20.

What is the function of nucleoplasm?

Q 21.

Name the cell organelles involved in synthesis, packaging and movement of protein (or other macromolecules) inside a cell.

Q 22.

Define Passive Transport.

Q 23.

What are the conditions for osmosis?

Q 24.

Which cell organelle is called 'kitchen of plant'?

Q 25.

What are chromosomes?

Q 26.

Who discovered Virus?

Q 27.

Why is mitochondria absent in red blood cells?

Q 28.

Identify cell organelle and write down its name:
Detoxify drugs and poisons specially in liver cells.

Q 29.

Define Cell

Q 30.

In which year electron microscope was invented?

Q 31.

Is plasma membrane permeable or selectively permeable?

Q 32.

What would happen if the plasma membrane ruptures or breaks down?

Q 33.

Who is known as Father of Biology?

Q 34.

What is osmoregulation?

Q 35.

Identify cell organelle and write down its name:
A network of flattened cavities surrounded by a membrane, which links with the nuclear membrane. Help in packaging proteins.

Q 36.

Identify cell organelle and write down its name:
Thread like structures made up of in DNA and proteins. Converts to chromosomes when cell is dividing.

Q 37.

Identify cell organelle and write down its name:
A structure involved in production of ribosomes, present inside a nucleus.

Q 38.

Name the book in which Robert Hooke published his observations about cork cells.

Q 39.

Name the two postulates of the cell theory.

Q 40.

Name the smallest cell in human body.

Q 41.

Name the longest cell in human body.

Q 42.

Give an example of anucleate cell i.e. cell without nucleus.

Q 43.

Who proposed fluid-mosaic model of cell or plasma membrane?

Q 44.

Define Osmosis. What are different types of osmosis? Give examples of osmosis.

Q 45.

What is plasmolysis?

Q 46.

Why are lysosomes known as suicide bags?

Q 47.

Which cell organelle is called 'control center'?

Q 48.

What are the functions of Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)?

Q 49.

Name the cell type that have internal membranes which compartmentalize their functions.

Q 50.

Name the cell organelles which change energy from one form to another.