Practice Cell: Structure and Function – GK Quiz with Answers – Level 3

Consider the following events in the history of cell biology.

1. Schleiden contributes to the cell theory

2. Leeuwenhoek first sees free-living cells in pond water

3. Purkinje coins the term 'protoplasm'

4. Robert Brown discovers the nucleus

Select the correct chronological order.

Match List-I with List-II.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Consider the following statements about the plasma membrane:

1. It is selectively permeable and is made of lipids and proteins.

2. In osmosis, water moves across it from a region of low water concentration to a region of high water concentration.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. In plant cells, a cell wall made mainly of cellulose lies outside the plasma membrane.

2. Chromosomes in the nucleus carry, in the form of DNA, information for passing characters from parents to offspring.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about plastids:

1. Green plastids, called chloroplasts, carry out photosynthesis.

2. Leucoplasts are plastids that perform storage.

3. Plastids are found in both plant and animal cells.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. The largest cell is the egg of an ostrich.

2. Prokaryotic cells have membrane-bound organelles.

3. A plant cell has a large central vacuole that keeps the cell turgid.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about cell organelles:

1. Mitochondria have their own DNA and ribosomes.

2. Ribosomes store, modify and package the substances made in the cell.

3. Lysosomes contain digestive enzymes and can digest their own cell when it is damaged.

Which of the statements given above is/are NOT correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. Purkinje proposed the cell theory that all plants and animals are made of cells.

2. In bacteria, the nucleus is enclosed by a nuclear membrane.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following events in the study of the cell.

1. Virchow states that all cells arise from pre-existing cells

2. Robert Brown discovers the nucleus

3. Robert Hooke observes cells in a thin slice of cork

4. Schleiden contributes to the cell theory

Select the correct chronological order.

Match List-I with List-II.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.