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This section includes 533 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Life Sciences knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
101. |
Pendulous stamens and slender filaments are characteristics of plants pollinated by |
A. | wind |
B. | insects |
C. | water |
D. | soil |
Answer» C. water | |
102. |
Stomata guard cells perform all functions but |
A. | producing sugars |
B. | protecting the inner regions of leaf |
C. | regulating the amount of water lost |
D. | chloroplast storage |
Answer» C. regulating the amount of water lost | |
103. |
All are wrong about Bacteria, but |
A. | cannot grow in fertilized soil |
B. | cannot degrade DDT |
C. | degrade DDT into simpler substances |
D. | digest white blood cells |
Answer» C. degrade DDT into simpler substances | |
104. |
Chemotactive movements response towards stimulus of |
A. | light |
B. | heat |
C. | chemicals |
D. | All of the Above |
Answer» D. All of the Above | |
105. |
Example of dioecious plant includes |
A. | allamanda |
B. | pawpaw |
C. | hibiscus |
D. | clitoria |
Answer» C. hibiscus | |
106. |
First photosynthesizing organs of a germinating seed are |
A. | cotyledons |
B. | Plumule |
C. | first foliage leaves |
D. | radical |
Answer» D. radical | |
107. |
If herbaceous stem loose its turgidity, it may |
A. | die |
B. | regrow |
C. | regenerate |
D. | wilt |
Answer» E. | |
108. |
Exoskeleton is hardened outer covering which is |
A. | inert |
B. | non-living |
C. | attached to internal muscles |
D. | All of the Above |
Answer» E. | |
109. |
In germinating seeds, the fats are broken down with the help of enzyme |
A. | amylase |
B. | lipase |
C. | sucrose |
D. | proteases |
Answer» C. sucrose | |
110. |
Flowers of grass have |
A. | nectar |
B. | no nectar |
C. | sour nectar |
D. | bitter nectar |
Answer» C. sour nectar | |
111. |
Male and female sex organs appear on sameprothallus in region of under surface, this property is |
A. | monoecious |
B. | diecious |
C. | triecious |
D. | quadecious |
Answer» B. diecious | |
112. |
Atropa Belladona is used for medicine because it is rich in |
A. | atrocone |
B. | Atropine |
C. | pine |
D. | atripine |
Answer» C. pine | |
113. |
Bryophytes is another name for which of following plants? |
A. | flowering |
B. | vascular |
C. | avascular |
D. | leguminous |
Answer» D. leguminous | |
114. |
Which of following is primary photosynthetic organ of a plant? |
A. | stems |
B. | leaves |
C. | bulbs |
D. | roots |
Answer» C. bulbs | |
115. |
Which of liverworts have leaf-like appendages on their sporophytes? |
A. | marchantia |
B. | angiosperms |
C. | ferns |
D. | Plagiochila |
Answer» D. Plagiochila | |
116. |
Blood pressure required for ultrafiltration is provided through |
A. | simple mechanical process |
B. | afferent arteriole |
C. | efferent arteriole |
D. | heart beat |
Answer» C. efferent arteriole | |
117. |
From how many years megaphylls started appearing in fossil record? |
A. | 370 million |
B. | 100 million |
C. | 1 million |
D. | 10 million |
Answer» B. 100 million | |
118. |
Which of following are organs of plants whose function is to absorb nutrients from soil? |
A. | stems |
B. | bulbs |
C. | roots |
D. | leaves |
Answer» D. leaves | |
119. |
What percentage of world's soil carbon is present in peatlands? |
A. | 0.1 |
B. | 0.2 |
C. | 0.3 |
D. | 0.4 |
Answer» D. 0.4 | |
120. |
Only cells that undergo division in epidermis are found in |
A. | cornified layer |
B. | Granular layer |
C. | Malpighian layer |
D. | cuticular layer |
Answer» D. cuticular layer | |
121. |
In bulbs, food is stored in the form of |
A. | sugar |
B. | glucose |
C. | amino acids |
D. | starch |
Answer» B. glucose | |
122. |
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is reduced to carbohydrate (CₙH₂ₘOₘ) through |
A. | oxygen |
B. | water |
C. | hydrogen |
D. | light-dependent stage |
Answer» D. light-dependent stage | |
123. |
Which of following is produced by meiosis in a mature sporophyte? |
A. | spores |
B. | gamete |
C. | gametophyte |
D. | spore |
Answer» B. gamete | |
124. |
Ovary walls are fused with the receptacle if the |
A. | ovary is inferior |
B. | ovary is superior |
C. | anther is inferior |
D. | anther is superior |
Answer» B. ovary is superior | |
125. |
Important well known ferns are Dryopteris, Pteries Pteridium and |
A. | equisetum adiantum |
B. | adiantum equisetum |
C. | equisetum |
D. | adiantum |
Answer» E. | |
126. |
Water molecule is split into hydrogen and oxygen in |
A. | light dependent stage |
B. | light independent stage |
C. | photolysis of water |
D. | oxidation reaction |
Answer» D. oxidation reaction | |
127. |
Digestion of stored foods occur in cotyledons in |
A. | endospermic seeds |
B. | non-endospermic seeds |
C. | exospermic seeds |
D. | non-exospermic seeds |
Answer» C. exospermic seeds | |
128. |
Timber is mostly provided from which of following? |
A. | Douglas fir |
B. | juniper |
C. | European larg |
D. | Wollemi pine |
Answer» B. juniper | |
129. |
Flower possessing both the androecium and gynoecium are known as |
A. | Dioecious |
B. | Hermaphrodite |
C. | Monoecious |
D. | Triecious |
Answer» C. Monoecious | |
130. |
Bones and cartilages are composed of protein known as |
A. | lipoprotein |
B. | globulin |
C. | collagen |
D. | albumin |
Answer» D. albumin | |
131. |
Which of following is known as peat moss? |
A. | marchantia |
B. | angiosperms |
C. | ferns |
D. | sphagnum |
Answer» E. | |
132. |
Softer connective tissue which covers end of bone joint is |
A. | exoskeleton |
B. | compact bone |
C. | sponge bone |
D. | cartilage |
Answer» E. | |
133. |
Landing platform is provided to insects through |
A. | calyx |
B. | epicalyx |
C. | pedicel |
D. | petals |
Answer» E. | |
134. |
An organic substance which hardens secondary cell wall is usually impregnated with |
A. | xylem |
B. | phloem |
C. | sclereides |
D. | lignin |
Answer» E. | |
135. |
70 to 90% of cell protoplasm is |
A. | hemoglobin |
B. | protoplasm |
C. | water |
D. | energy |
Answer» D. energy | |
136. |
Potassium, calcium and magnesium are the form of |
A. | essential non-metallic elements |
B. | essential metallic elements |
C. | non-essential non-metallic elements |
D. | non-essential metallic elements |
Answer» C. non-essential non-metallic elements | |
137. |
Sporophyte is dominant and gametophyte is small and reduced but separate as well as independent. This development shows heteromorphic alternation of generation |
A. | hetromorphic alternation of generation |
B. | automorphic alternation of generation |
C. | hetromorphic alternation |
D. | hypomorphic alternation of generation |
Answer» B. automorphic alternation of generation | |
138. |
Function of funicle is to |
A. | hold the flower upright for pollination |
B. | attach ovule to placenta |
C. | produce the ovum |
D. | to attach anther with filament |
Answer» C. produce the ovum | |
139. |
Growth of roots towards water is positive hydrotropism if it grows towards |
A. | soil |
B. | water |
C. | nutrients |
D. | sun |
Answer» C. nutrients | |
140. |
Most earliest group of plants which are rootless are one which become |
A. | developed |
B. | alternated |
C. | extinct |
D. | enlarged |
Answer» D. enlarged | |
141. |
Clitoria has all of others characteristics but the flower is |
A. | incomplete |
B. | bisexual |
C. | bilaterally symmetrical |
D. | all of above |
Answer» B. bisexual | |
142. |
Cranial nerves and sense organs are included in the |
A. | Peripheral nervous system |
B. | Central nervous system |
C. | white matter of spinal cord |
D. | grey matter |
Answer» B. Central nervous system | |
143. |
Branches of Crataegus give an excellent wood, which can be used to make |
A. | walking sticks |
B. | furniture |
C. | toys |
D. | cupboards |
Answer» B. furniture | |
144. |
To get pollens, mature stigma shall |
A. | project out of the bracts and hang freely |
B. | provide a large feathery surface area to get the pollens floating around |
C. | turn itself non-sticky and decrease its surface area |
D. | turn itself non-feathery and decrease its surface area |
Answer» C. turn itself non-sticky and decrease its surface area | |
145. |
In which part of stamen in pollen produced? |
A. | anther |
B. | spores |
C. | petals |
D. | pistil |
Answer» B. spores | |
146. |
Bracts are commonly found in |
A. | orchids |
B. | clitoria |
C. | pawpaw |
D. | grasses |
Answer» E. | |
147. |
Which of following strengthens cell walls of xylem cells? |
A. | lignin |
B. | chitin |
C. | cellulose |
D. | proteins |
Answer» B. chitin | |
148. |
Which is true about grasses |
A. | a common flowering plants |
B. | not a flowering plants |
C. | a flowering plant |
D. | a uniflowering plants |
Answer» B. not a flowering plants | |
149. |
Gametophyte doesn't undergo reshuffling of genes because gamates are produced by |
A. | division |
B. | mitosis |
C. | meosis |
D. | conjugation |
Answer» C. meosis | |
150. |
Leaves and petals follows growth pattern with respect to movement is |
A. | epinasty |
B. | hyponasty |
C. | nutation |
D. | hypernasty |
Answer» B. hyponasty | |