Explore topic-wise MCQs in Cell Biology.

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51.

COPI-coated vesicles move the materials in __________________ direction.

A. retrograde
B. anterograde
C. radial
D. lateral
Answer» B. anterograde
52.

Dynamin is a _____________________

A. adaptor molecule
B. accessory protein
C. integral membrane protein
D. phospholipids
Answer» C. integral membrane protein
53.

GFP joined at the end of a protein can interfere in its synthesis.

A. True
B. False
C. May be True or False
D. Can't say
Answer» C. May be True or False
54.

What of the following molecules is not transported through the secretory pathway of endomembrane system?

A. nucleic acids
B. complex polysaccharides
C. proteins
D. lipids
Answer» B. complex polysaccharides
55.

GTP-bound ‘Rabs’ (G-proteins) associated with membranes by a __________ anchor.

A. lipid
B. protein
C. carbohydrate
D. ribonucleic acid
Answer» B. protein
56.

In regulated secretion, materials are __________

A. secreted
B. stored
C. degraded
D. aggregated
Answer» C. degraded
57.

Which type of endomembrane secretion occurs in nerve cells?

A. constitutive
B. regulatory
C. non-continuous
D. intermittent
Answer» C. non-continuous
58.

Where do the materials ingested by endocytosis, reach after travelling through the late endosome?

A. nucleus
B. lysosome
C. mitochondria
D. early endosome
Answer» C. mitochondria
59.

Receptors dissociate from their bound ligands as a result of ________________

A. high H⁺ concentration
B. low H⁺ concentration
C. high Cl¯ concentration
D. low Cl¯ concentration
Answer» B. low H⁺ concentration
60.

Endocytosis and phagocytosis refer to the same process.

A. True
B. False
C. May be True or False
D. Can't say
Answer» C. May be True or False
61.

Which of the following can be used as a temperature-sensitive mutant to study the endomembrane system?

A. Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
B. Human Immunodeficiency Virus
C. Tobacco Mosaic Virus
D. Retrovirus
Answer» B. Human Immunodeficiency Virus
62.

Which technique was used to study the secretory pathway in acinar cells of the pancreas for the first time?

A. Gel electrophoresis
B. Chromatography
C. Autoradiography
D. ELISA
Answer» D. ELISA
63.

RNAi phenomenon inhibits the synthesis of which biomolecules?

A. RNA
B. DNA
C. Proteins
D. Carbohydrates
Answer» D. Carbohydrates
64.

Mitochondrial matrix proteins have a target sequence, called presequence located at __________

A. N-terminus
B. C-terminus
C. interstitial site
D. center of the sequence
Answer» B. C-terminus
65.

Late endosomes are located near the _____________

A. membrane
B. nucleus
C. mitochondria
D. peroxisomes
Answer» C. mitochondria
66.

ARF1 is a _______ binding protein.

A. carbohydrate
B. GTP
C. GDP
D. ATP
Answer» C. GDP
67.

In the endocytic pathway, materials are discharged from the cell.

A. True
B. False
C. May be True or False
D. Can't say
Answer» C. May be True or False
68.

Kupffer cells are located in the _________

A. kidney
B. lungs
C. liver
D. intestine
Answer» D. intestine
69.

After the digestive process in an autophagolysosome is over, it is termed as _______________

A. autophagosome
B. residual body
C. endosome
D. peroxisome
Answer» C. endosome
70.

Which of the following are the targets of bacterial toxins botulism and tetanus?

A. Sar1
B. SNAREs
C. Rabs
D. ARF1
Answer» C. Rabs
71.

What is responsible for the transport of materials from the cis cisternae to the trans cisternae of the Golgi complex?

A. active diffusion
B. passive diffusion
C. translocon
D. transport vesicles
Answer» E.
72.

While moving from cis cisternae to the trans cisternae, which molecule does not leave the cisternal lumen?

A. membrane proteins
B. procollagen
C. oligosaccharides
D. lysosomal proteins
Answer» C. oligosaccharides
73.

A protein coat of diameter ________ is present on the transport vesicles.

A. 0.5-1 mm
B. 0.5-1 nm
C. 0.5-1 pm
D. 0.5-1 μm
Answer» E.
74.

Hsp 70 and Hsp 90 are ____________ involved in the mitochondrial uptake of proteins.

A. chaperones
B. receptors
C. ligands
D. glycolipids
Answer» B. receptors
75.

Which molecule activates the formation of a transport vesicle?

A. G-protein
B. Lactose
C. DNA helicase
D. Inducer
Answer» B. Lactose
76.

COPII-coated vesicles move the materials from ____________ to ____________

A. ERGIC, Golgi complex
B. Golgi complex, ERGIC
C. ER, Golgi complex
D. Golgi complex, ER
Answer» D. Golgi complex, ER
77.

In how many subcompartments of the chloroplasts, can the proteins be delivered?

A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
Answer» D. 8
78.

Following its entry into the mitochondrial matrix, the peptide is _______________

A. degraded
B. converted to phagosome
C. folded to its native conformation
D. hydrolyzed
Answer» D. hydrolyzed
79.

‘Stroma targeting domain’ is located in the ________________

A. chloroplast
B. mitochondria
C. peptide
D. transit peptide
Answer» E.
80.

Most proteins destined for uptake by the chloroplasts are synthesized with a ________________

A. removable C-terminal sequence
B. removable N-terminal sequence
C. removable hydrophobic tail
D. removable hydrophilic tail
Answer» C. removable hydrophobic tail
81.

How many models of movement of materials through the Golgi complex exist?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Answer» C. 3
82.

Newly synthesized membrane proteins enter the cis face of the Golgi complex and leave from the trans face.

A. True
B. False
C. May be True or False
D. Can't say
Answer» B. False
83.

Which protein families do not mechanically support the Golgi complex?

A. Keratin
B. Actin
C. Spectrin
D. Ankyrin
Answer» B. Actin
84.

Which of the following is not completely synthesized in the Golgi complex of a cell?

A. Pectins
B. Hemicellulose
C. N-linked oligosaccharides
D. O-linked oligosaccharides
Answer» D. O-linked oligosaccharides
85.

Which of the following is located at the trans end of the Golgi stack?

A. ascorbic acid
B. methanoic acid
C. sialyl-transferase
D. dehydrogenase
Answer» D. dehydrogenase
86.

The cysteine residues present in the reduced form in peptides that enter the endoplasmic reticulum lumen are converted into ____________ when they leave the compartment.

A. hydrolyzed bonds
B. hydrophobic bonds
C. disulfide bonds
D. hydrophilic bonds
Answer» D. hydrophilic bonds
87.

Which of the following enzyme present in the rough endoplasmic reticulum removes the signal sequence from nascent polypeptides?

A. signal oxidase
B. signal peptidase
C. olisaccharyltransferase
D. luciferase
Answer» C. olisaccharyltransferase
88.

In yeast cells, protein transport across the endoplasmic reticulum membrane occurs __________

A. perpendicularly
B. discontinuously
C. co-translationally
D. post-translationally
Answer» E.
89.

Translocon is a ____________

A. polypeptide
B. protein channel
C. receptor
D. recognition particle
Answer» C. receptor
90.

In mammalian cells, the signal recognition particle (SRP) consists of ____ distinct polypeptides and one small RNA molecule.

A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
Answer» D. 8
91.

Glycolipids are synthesized in the ER and ____________

A. Nucleus
B. Golgi complex
C. Mitochondrion
D. Plasma membrane
Answer» C. Mitochondrion
92.

Hydrophobic transmembrane segments of which proteins are not synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum?

A. integral membrane proteins
B. lysosomal proteins
C. steroids
D. secretory proteins
Answer» B. lysosomal proteins
93.

Which of the following parts of Golgi complex directs the proteins to their final intracellular destinations?

A. tubules
B. cis-Golgi network
C. trans-Golgi network
D. medial cisternae
Answer» D. medial cisternae
94.

Cis-Golgi network (CGN) is closer to the endoplasmic reticulum than the trans-Golgi network (TGN).

A. True
B. False
C. May be True or False
D. Can't say
Answer» B. False
95.

Golgi complex has a cisternae of diameter _________

A. 0.5-1 mm
B. 0.5-1 nm
C. 0.5-1 pm
D. 0.5-1 μm
Answer» E.
96.

Sarcoplasmic reticulum is found in ________________

A. liver cells
B. kidney cells
C. muscle cells
D. neurons
Answer» D. neurons
97.

All the cells contain the same ratio of rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum.

A. True
B. False
C. May be True or False
D. Can't say
Answer» C. May be True or False
98.

The signal sequence that determines whether a protein will be synthesized on a free ribosome or ribosome attached to endoplasmic reticulum is located at _______

A. N-terminal
B. C-terminal
C. hydrophobic tail
D. hydrophilic tail
Answer» B. C-terminal
99.

Which enzymes are responsible for detoxification of organic compounds carried out by the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?

A. Dehydrogenases
B. Oxygenases
C. Nucleases
D. Ribonucleases
Answer» C. Nucleases
100.

Detoxification of organic compounds like barbiturates and ethanol in the liver is carried out by ________________

A. smooth endoplasmic reticulum
B. sarcoplasmic reticulum
C. rough endoplasmic reticulum
D. nucleus
Answer» B. sarcoplasmic reticulum