THILAGAM NEET ACADEMY

MODEL TEST – 8

Date: 27/03/2025 Marks:240

Time: 60min

1. What is the basic unit of plants? d) Anatomy only focuses on

a) Tissues external structure
b) Cells 5. What structural differences exist
c) Organs within angiosperms?
d) Leaves a) Differences between
2. How are tissues organized in plants? monocots and dicots
a) Into cells b) Differences between
b) Into organs gymnosperms and
c) Into organelles angiosperms
d) Into species c) No differences at all
3. What term is used to describe the d) Only external differences are
study of the internal structure of present
plants? 6. What does the internal structure of
a) Morphology plants help in understanding?
b) Anatomy a) Growth rate of plants
c) Taxonomy b) Adaptations to diverse
d) Ecology environments
4. Which of the following statements is c) Only their external features
true about the internal structure of d) Evolution of animals
plants? 7. What factors influence the variation
a) All plants have the same in tissues?
internal structure a) Location in the plant body
b) Different plant organs have b) Type of seed
different internal structures c) Environmental conditions
c) Only monocots have only
anatomical differences d) Only external morphology
8. What determines the structure and c) Facilitates gaseous exchange
function of plant tissues? d) Aids in photosynthesis
a) Only their genetic 14. What is the main function of
composition stomata?
b) Only the amount of water a) Transporting minerals
absorbed b) Absorbing water from soil
c) Their location in the plant c) Regulating transpiration and
body gaseous exchange
d) The number of leaves d) Providing structural support
present to leaves
9. How many types of tissue systems 15. What is the shape of guard cells in
are there based on structure and grasses?
location? a) Bean-shaped
a) Two b) Round
b) Four c) Dumb-bell shaped
c) Three d) Oval
d) Five 16. Which tissues constitute the ground
10. What is the outermost covering of tissue?
the whole plant body? a) Only vascular bundles
a) Vascular tissue b) Only epidermal tissue
b) Epidermal tissue system c) All tissues except epidermis
c) Ground tissue system and vascular bundles
d) Xylem d) Only collenchyma and
11. What is the function of the cuticle sclerenchyma
present on the epidermis? 17. What type of tissues are present in
a) Helps in absorption of water the ground tissue?
b) Prevents loss of water a) Parenchyma, collenchyma,
c) Facilitates gaseous exchange and sclerenchyma
d) Aids in photosynthesis b) Xylem and phloem
12. Where is the cuticle absent in plants? c) Epidermis and periderm
a) Leaves d) Tracheids and sieve tubes
b) Stem 18. What is the ground tissue in leaves
c) Roots called?
d) Flowers a) Epidermis
13. What is the function of the cuticle b) Mesophyll
present on the epidermis? c) Xylem
a) Helps in absorption of water d) Pericycle
b) Prevents loss of water

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19. What is a characteristic feature of c) Epidermal
mesophyll cells in leaves? d) Medullary
a) They have thick secondary 24. In conjoint vascular bundles, where
walls is the phloem usually located?
b) They contain chloroplasts a) On both sides of xylem
c) They lack cytoplasm b) Only on the inner side of
d) They transport water and xylem
minerals c) Only on the outer side of
20. What is present between phloem xylem
and xylem in dicotyledonous stems? d) Scattered throughout the
a) Cortex bundle
b) Cambium 25. What material is deposited in the
c) Cuticle tangential and radial walls of
d) Pith endodermal cells?
21. Why are vascular bundles in a) Lignin
monocotyledons called closed? b) Suberin
a) Because they have no c) Cutin
cambium and do not form d) Cellulose
secondary tissues 26. In what form is suberin deposited in
b) Because they form secondary the endodermis?
tissues a) Epidermal layer
c) Because they are arranged b) Casparian strips
radially c) Vascular cambium
d) Because they have xylem on d) Phloem fibers
both sides of phloem 27. What lies next to the endodermis?
22. What is the arrangement of xylem a) Pith
and phloem in radial vascular b) Pericycle
bundles? c) Xylem
a) Along the same radius d) Phloem
b) Alternately along different 28. How many xylem and phloem
radii patches are usually present?
c) In concentric circles a) One to two
d) Randomly scattered b) Two to four
23. In which type of vascular bundle are c) Four to six
xylem and phloem located along the d) More than six
same radius? 29. What develops between the xylem
a) Radial and phloem later?
b) Conjoint a) Epidermis

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 b) Cambium ring 36. Where are stomata more commonly
c) Pericycle found in a dorsiventral leaf?
d) Cuticle a) Adaxial epidermis
30. How many xylem bundles are b) Abaxial epidermis
usually present in monocot roots? c) Palisade parenchyma
a) Less than six d) Vascular bundles
b) Exactly six 37. Where does the energy required for
c) Polyarch life processes come from?
d) None a) Water
31. What is absent in monocot roots? b) Oxidation of macromolecules
a) Primary growth c) Sunlight directly
b) Cortex d) ATP alone
c) Secondary growth 38. What happens to the chemical
d) Endodermis energy stored in carbohydrates in
32. What type of cells make up the plants?
hypodermis? a) It is converted into ATP
a) Parenchyma through oxidation
b) Sclerenchyma b) It is stored indefinitely
c) Collenchyma without being used
d) Xylem fibers c) It is only used during the
33. What is the endodermis rich in? daytime
a) Lignin d) It is directly converted into
b) Chloroplasts proteins
c) Starch grains 39. What is the end product of glycolysis?
d) Xylem vessels a) Glucose
34. What type of hypodermis is present b) Pyruvic acid
in the monocot stem? c) Lactic acid
a) Parenchymatous d) Acetyl CoA
b) Collenchymatous 40. Which enzyme converts sucrose into
c) Sclerenchymatous glucose and fructose?
d) Xylem fibers a) Hexokinase
35. Where are bulliform cells located? b) Invertase
a) Upper epidermis along the c) Phosphofructokinase
veins d) Pyruvate kinase
b) Lower epidermis 41. How many ATP molecules are
c) Mesophyll layer consumed in glycolysis?
d) Xylem vessels a) 1
b) 2

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 c) 3 beverages can reach before yeast
d) 4 dies?
42. The net ATP gain from glycolysis is: a) 5%
a) 1 ATP b) 9%
b) 2 ATP c) 13%
c) 4 ATP d) 20%
d) 6 ATP 47. Where does aerobic respiration
43. Which of the following is an energy- primarily take place in eukaryotic
yielding step in glycolysis? cells?
a) Conversion of glucose to a) Cytoplasm
glucose-6-phosphate b) Mitochondria
b) Conversion of fructose-6- c) Nucleus
phosphate to fructose-1,6- d) Golgi apparatus
bisphosphate 48. Which of the following is a waste
c) Conversion of 1,3- product of aerobic respiration?
bisphosphoglycerate (BPGA) a) Lactic acid
to 3-phosphoglyceric acid b) Ethanol
(PGA) c) Carbon dioxide and water
d) Isomerization of glucose-6- d) Acetyl CoA
phosphate to fructose-6- 49. What is the final acceptor of
phosphate electrons in aerobic respiration?
44. What is the end product of alcoholic a) NADH
fermentation by yeast? b) Oxygen (O₂)
a) Lactic acid c) Pyruvate
b) Ethanol and CO₂ d) Carbon dioxide (CO₂)
c) Acetyl CoA 50. Which coenzyme is required for the
d) Pyruvic acid conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-
45. In anaerobic respiration, what acts CoA?
as the reducing agent for the a) FADH₂
conversion of pyruvate to ethanol or b) NADP+
lactic acid? c) Coenzyme A
a) FADH₂ d) ATP
b) ATP 51. What is the net ATP gain from one
c) NADH + H⁺ complete oxidation of glucose in
d) Acetyl CoA aerobic respiration?
46. What is the maximum concentration a) 2 ATP
of alcohol that naturally fermented b) 4 ATP
c) 30-32 ATP

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 d) 50 ATP c) 3
52. Which enzyme catalyzes the d) 4
condensation of acetyl-CoA with 57. Fatty acids enter the respiratory
oxaloacetic acid (OAA) to form citric pathway after being converted into:
acid? a) Pyruvate
a) Citrate synthase b) Oxaloacetic acid
b) Succinyl-CoA synthetase c) Acetyl CoA
c) Pyruvate dehydrogenase d) PGAL
d) ATP synthase 58. Proteins must be broken down by
53. What is the intermediate formed proteases into amino acids before
between α-ketoglutarate and they enter respiration. What must
succinate? happen to amino acids before they
a) Succinyl-CoA can be used?
b) Fumarate a) Dehydration
c) Malate b) Decarboxylation
d) Isocitrate c) Deamination
54. Which of the following is NOT an d) Transcription
intermediate of the TCA cycle? 59. The respiratory quotient for proteins
a) Fumarate is approximately:
b) Malate a) 1.0
c) Pyruvate b) 0.7
d) Succinate c) 0.9
55. Which complex in the ETS is d) 1.2
responsible for receiving electrons 60. The respiratory quotient (RQ) is
from NADH? defined as the ratio of:
a) Complex I (NADH a) Volume of O₂ consumed to
dehydrogenase) volume of CO₂ evolved
b) Complex II (Succinate b) Volume of CO₂ evolved to
dehydrogenase) volume of O₂ consumed
c) Complex III (Cytochrome bc1 c) ATP produced to oxygen
complex) used
d) Complex IV (Cytochrome c d) NADH produced to ATP
oxidase) generated
56. How many ATP molecules are
produced per FADH₂ molecule
during oxidative phosphorylation?
a) 1
b) 2