Biology

The Fundamental Unit of Life

Question:

Which cell organelle is known as 'protein factory'?

Answer:

Ribosomes
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The Fundamental Unit of Life

Q 1.

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

Q 2.

What is diffusion?

Q 3.

Who discovered Golgi apparatus?

Q 4.

Name the sac like structure which form the grana?

Q 5.

What is the full form of DNA and RNA?

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

What is osmoregulation?

Q 8.

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

Q 9.

What is plasmolysis?

Q 10.

What is the energy currency of the cell called?

Q 11.

Which organelle of the cell in animals helps in osmregulation?

Q 12.

What is the function of nucleoplasm?

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

In which year electron microscope was invented?

Q 15.

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 16.

Define Exocytosis.

Q 17.

Who is known as Father of Biology?

Q 18.

What are the conditions for osmosis?

Q 19.

Who discovered Virus?

Q 20.

Which of the following cell is better candidate to study lysosomes?
(a) White Blood Cell
(b) Muscle Cell

Q 21.

Identify cell organelle and write down its name:
Contains green colour pigment, traps light energy. Present in some plant cells.

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

Define Passive Transport.

Q 24.

Why are lysosomes known as suicide bags?

Q 25.

What are chromosomes?

Q 26.

What are the function of nucleus?

Q 27.

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 28.

Name the smallest cell in human body.

Q 29.

Is plasma membrane permeable or selectively permeable?

Q 30.

Which organ of the plant body helps in osmoregulation?

Q 31.

Which cell organelle is called 'kitchen of plant'?

Q 32.

Which cell organelle is called 'control center'?

Q 33.

What are the functions of Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)?

Q 34.

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 35.

What is the thickness of cell membrane?

Q 36.

Why is mitochondria absent in red blood cells?

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

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

Q 39.

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 40.

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 41.

Identify cell organelle and write down its name:
Present in some animal cells, help in locomotion.

Q 42.

Define Cell

Q 43.

Who proposed the cell theory?

Q 44.

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

Q 45.

Name the longest cell in human body.

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

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

Q 48.

Which cell organelle is known as 'protein factory'?

Q 49.

Are Viruses Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic?

Q 50.

What are the components nucleus?