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Chapter – 1
The Biology
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Chapter – 2
Biological Molecules
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Reasons:
Q1: Why butter solidifies at room temperature but not mustered oil?
Ans: Butter solidifies at room temperature because butter is saturated fatty acid and
saturated fatty acids are solid at room temperature and mustered oil is unsaturated fatty
acid this is why it usually liquid at room temperature.
Ans: DNA considered as genetic material because it contains genes and genes contains
heredity characters which are transferred into new generation.
Q10: Why phospholipids are most important class are most important class of lipids?
Ans: Phospholipids are most important class of lipids because these are present in all
living cells and are associated with membranes and related with vital functions of cell.
Q11: Why water requires higher amount of energy to change into vapours or ice?
Ans: Water requires higher amount of energy to change into vapours or ice because water
contains hydrogen bonding which holds the water molecules together and gives stability
to water molecules also.
Q13: How many essential amino acids are found in the body of living organisms?
Ans: There twenty essential amino acids are found in the body of living organisms.
Q15: Many birds must store large amounts of energy to power flight during migration
which type of organic molecules would be the most advantageous for energy storage
why?
Ans: Lipids would be most advantageous organic molecules for energy storage because
lipids have higher proportion of C-H bonds and very low proportion of oxygen; lipids
store double the amount of amount of energy as compared to carbohydrates.
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Chapter- 4
The Cell
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Reasons:
Q6: What will happen if the function of lysosomes would disturb in cell?
Ans: It may cause the abnormal conditions or diseases.
Q7: Why did it take nearly 200 years from the time of Robert Hooke for the cell theory to
develop?
Ans: Because scientists had to wait for the technology to develop.
Q8: Say for instance you are looking a single cell that is green in colour. How do you it is
a plant cell?
Ans: Animal cells do not have the chloroplast which makes plant cells look green, so it is
a plant cell.
Q13: What would happen to a plant cell that suddenly lost its chloroplast?
Ans: If the chloroplast die or disappear then the plant would die of hunger.
Q15: How rough endoplasmic reticulum is differs from smooth endoplasmic reticulum?
Ans: Rough endoplasmic reticulum contains ribosomes on their outer surface while
smooth endoplasmic reticulum does not contain ribosomes on their surface.
Q16: Which organelle of a cell is transferred from mother only to new generation? and
why?
Ans: Mitochondria are transferred from mother to new generation because these are
present only in eggs not in sperms.
Q17: Which organelles of a cell have its own DNA except nucleus?
Ans: Mitochondria and plastids have their own DNA.
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Chapter – 5
Variety of life
Short Answers:
Q8: What are two criteria used by Whittaker in his scheme of classification?
And: He based his classification on two main criteria
1) Level of organization and 2) Methods of nutrition.
Q15: On what basis previously organisms were divided into two kingdoms?
Ans: Previously organisms were divided into two kingdoms on the basis of presence or
absence of cell wall.
Q17: What are two major routs by which a plant viral diseases can spread?
Ans: A plant viral disease can spread by horizontal transmission or vertical transmission.
Reasons:
Q1: Why bacteria and fungi previously placed to the plant kingdom?
Ans: Previously bacteria and fungi placed to the plant kingdom because they were like
plants and possessed a cell wall.
Q3: Why scientists suggested that multicellular algae should be removed from plant
kingdom?
Ans: They suggested that multicellular algae should be removed from plant kingdom
because multicellular algae is more close to unicellular algae than plants and this is why
they placed in new kingdom called protoctista.
Ans: Fungi lack chlorophyll, they feed heterotrophically through absorption and their
cellular structures are also different from plants.
Q8: Why a virus that reproduces only by lytic cycle is known as virulent?
Ans: A virus that reproduces only by lytic cycle is known as virulent because it causes
death of bacterial cell.
Q12: How chemical constitution can be helpful in the classification of living organisms?
Ans: When morphological characters are failed to classify living organisms because of
their similar cellular structures then their chemical constituents are used to classify and
identify them.
Q16: How plus strand RNA viruses are different from minus strand RNA viruses?
Ans: Plus strand RNA act directly as mRNA after infecting the host cell, attacking to the
host`s ribosomes and being transmitted where minus strand RNA carry the RNA strand
complementary to the mRNA that carries the genetic information of the mRNA, which
then function in the cell.
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Chapter – 6
Reasons:
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Q1: Do any other microbial groups besides bacteria have prokaryotic cell?
Ans: Cynobacteria or blue green algae are also having prokaryotic cell.
Q2: How bacteria are classified as gram positive and gram negative?
Ans: Certain bacteria are stained with a violet or bluish colour are said to gram positive
where other bacteria do not stained with violet dye are known gram negative bacteria.
Q6: Bacteria are prokaryotes therefore chloroplast must not be present in their cell then
how photosynthetic bacteria synthesize there food?
Ans: These bacteria have same pigments similar to chlorophyll and their pigments
dispersed in the cytoplasm. Through these pigments photosynthetic bacteria synthesize
their food.
Q8: How Nostoc and Anabana are useful in the field of agriculture?
Ans: They are used as nitrogen fertilizer in agriculture to improve soil fertility.
Q9: If conditions are not favourable than how Nostoc would reproduce?
Ans: They would produce non motile spores from vegetative cells are known as akinets.
Q11: How cell walls of archaeobacteria are different from other groups?
Ans: Most groups of bacteria contain peptidoglycan in their cell walls where
peptidoglycan is absent in the cell walls of archaeobacteria.
Q14: Mitochondria are absent in bacterial cell then how respiration takes place?
Ans: Plasma membrane of bacteria contains enzymes for respiration process and it acts as
mitochondria.
Chapter-7
Ans: Because Ulva has the sporophyte and gametophyte in similar morphology.
Q8: Why female mosquito bite causes the malaria not male mosquito?
Ans: Only female mosquito bite causes the malaria because it contains malarial parasite
in its salivary glands while male mosquito does not contain it.
Chapter-7
Q8: Why female mosquito bite causes the malaria not male mosquito?
Ans: Only female mosquito bite causes the malaria because it contains malarial parasite
in its salivary glands while male mosquito does not contain it.