Cell: The Unit of Life Questions and Answers Part-8

1. What is the small bristle like structures or fibres sprouting out of the cell?
a) Flagella
b) Fimbriae
c) Pilli
d) All of these

Answer: b
Explanation: Fimbriae is the small bristle like structures or fibres sprouting out of the cell

2. In prokaryotes, the ribosomes are associated with which structure of cell?
a) Cell wall
b) Mesosome
c) Lysosomes
d) Plasma membrane

Answer: d
Explanation: Plasma membrane

3. What is the size of ribosomes?
a) 10-20 μm
b) 15-20 nm
c) 10-20 nm
d) 15-20 cm

Answer: b
Explanation: 15-20 nm

4. In 70S prokaryotic ribosomes, what are the sub units present in them?
a) 50S and 20S
b) 50S and 30S
c) 40S and 30S
d) 60S and 30S

Answer: b
Explanation: 50S and 30S

5. A polysome is a chained structure of which organelle?
a) Lysosome
b) Mesosome
c) Ribosome
d) All of these

Answer: c
Explanation: Ribosome

6. In polyribosome, the ribosomes attach to which RNA?
a) m-RNA
b) t-RNA
c) r-RNA
d) All of these

Answer: a
Explanation: m-RNA

7. In what form, the reserve material in prokaryotic cells are stored in cytoplasm?
a) Lysosome
b) Mesosome
c) Ribosome
d) Inclusion bodies

Answer: d
Explanation: Inclusion bodies

8. Which of the following are not inclusion bodies?
a) Phosphate granules
b) Cyanophycean granules
c) Glycogen granules
d) Glucose granules

Answer: d
Explanation: Glucose granules

9. Gas vacuoles are found in
a) Blue-green bacteria
b) Purple bacteria
c) Green photosynthetic bacteria
d) All of these

Answer: d
Explanation: All of these

10. Which of the following does not belong to eukaryote?
a) Protists
b) Bacteria
c) Fungi
d) All of these

Answer: b
Explanation: Bacteria