Solved Question Bank CBSE PMT

Solved Question Bank CBSE PMT
CBSE PMT preliminary practice solved paper
Sample Questions on Biology
1. Which one of the following has haplontic life cycle?
(1) Wheat
(2) Funaria
(3) Polytrichum
(4) Ustilago
Ans. 4

2. T.O. Diener discovered a
(1) Bacteriophage
(2) Free infectious RNA
(3) Free infectious DNA
(4) Infectious protein
Ans. 2

3. Mannitol is the stored food in
(1) Gracillaria
(2) Chara
(3) Porphyra
(4) Fucus
Ans. 4

4. Which one of the following is a vascular cryptogam?
(1) Cedrus
(2) Equisetum
(3) Ginkgo
(4) Marchantia

Ans:2

5. Phylogenetic system of classification is based on
(1) Floral characters
(2) Evolutionary relationships
(3) Morphological features
(4) Chemical constituents
Ans:2

6. Which one of the following groups of animals is bilaterally symmetrical and triploblastic?
(1) Sponges
(2) Coelenterates (Cnidarians)
(3) Aschelminthes (round worms)
(4) Ctenophores
Ans. :3

7. Peripatus is a connecting link between
(1) Coelenterata and Porifera
(2) Ctenophora and Platyhelminthis
(3) Mollusca and Echinodermata
(4) Annelida and Arthropoda
Ans. :4

8. Which one of the following pairs of animals comprises ‘jawless fishes’?
(1) Guppies and hag fishes
(2) Lampreys and eels
(3) Mackerals and Rohu
(4) Lampreys and hag fishes
Ans. :4

9. If a live earthworm is pricked with a needle on its outer surface without damaging its gut, the fluid that comes out is
(1) slimymucus
(2) excretory fluid
(3) coelomic fluid
(4) haemolymph
Ans. :3

10. Plasmodesmata are
(1) Connections between adjacent cells
(2) Lignified cemented layers between cells
(3) Locomotory structures
(4) Membranes connecting the nucleus with plasmalemma

11. Synapsis occurs between
(1) two homologous chromosomes
(2) a male and a female gamete
(3) mRNA and ribosomes
(4) spindle fibres and centromere
Ans. :1

12. Middle lamella is composed mainly of
(1) Phosphoglycerides
(2) Hemicellulose
(3) Muramic acid
(4) Calcium pectate
Ans.:4

13. Cytoskeleton is made up of
(1) Proteinaceous filaments
(2) Calcium carbonate granules
(3) Callose deposits
(4) Cellulosicmicrofibrils
Ans.:1

14. The cell junctions called tight, adhering and gap junctions are found in
(1) Neural tissue
(2) Muscular tissue
(3) Connective tissue
(4) Epithelial tissue

Ans. :4

15. The kind of tissue that forms the supportive structure in our pinna (external ears) is also found in
(1) tip of the nose
(2) vertebrae
(3) nails
(4) ear ossicles
Ans. :1

16. The epithelial tissue present on the inner surface of bronchioles and fallopian tubes is
(1) Squamous
(2) Cuboidal
(3) Glandular
(4) Ciliated
Ans. :4

17. What is not true for genetic code?
(1) It is unambiguous
(2) A codon in mRNA is real in a non-contiguous fashion
(3) It is nearly universal
(4) It is degenerate

Ans. :2

18. Removal of introns and joining the exons in a defined order in a transcription unit is called
(1) Capping
(2) Splicing
(3) Tailing
(4) Transformation
Ans. :2

19. Semiconservative replication of DNA was first demonstrated in
(1) Salmonella typhimurium
(2) Drosophila melanogaster
(3) Escherichia coli
(4) Streptococcus pneumoniae
Ans. :3

20. Whose experiments cracked the DNA and discovered unequivocally that a genetic code is a “triplet”?
(1) Beadle and Tatum
(2) Nirenberg and Mathaei
(3) Hershey and Chase
(4) Morgan and Sturtevant

Ans. :2