Star Plus Convent School, Raman

Term-I Class: 12th Session: 2024-25

Time: 3hr. Subject: Biology M.M. 70
General Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. The question paper has five sections and 36 questions. All questions are compulsory.
3. Section–A has 20 questions of 1 mark each; Section–B has 6 questions of 2 marks each; Section– C has
5 questions of 3 marks each; Section– D has 2 case-based questions of 4 marks each; and Section–E
has 3 questions of 5 marks each.
4. There is no overall choice. However, internal choices have been provided in some questions. A student
has to attempt only one of the alternatives in such questions.
5. Wherever necessary, neat and properly labelled diagrams should be drawn.
Section -A
1. Which part of the embryo sac nourishes the developing embryo?
a) Synergids b) antipodal cells c) egg cell d) central cell
2. One of the most resistant biological material present in the exine of pollen grains is
a) Suberin b) cellulose c) pecto cellulose d) sporopollenin
3. The hormone responsible for milk production in mammary glands is
a) Estrogen b) progesterone c) prolactin d) oxytocin
4. The nutritive cells found in seminiferous tubules are
a) Leydig cells b) atretic follicular cells c) sertoli cells d) chromaffin cells
5. A Human female reaches menopause around the age of
a) 50years b) 15year c) 70 year d) 25 year
6. Test tube baby means when the baby
a) Develops in a test tube b) develops from unfertilised ovum
c)develops by tissue culture technique d) ovum externally fertilised and implanted in the uterus
7. Down syndrome ,caused by an extra copy of chromosomes 21 is an example of
a) Polyploidy b) Aneuploidy c) deletion d) duplication
8. Chromosomal theory of inheritance was given
a) Morgan et al b) Sutton and Boweri c) Hugo devries d) Gregor J mendel
9. Who proposed the central dogma of molecular biology
a) Francis crick b) Watson c) kornberg d) McLeod
10.The eukaryotic replication of DNA is
a) Bidirectional with the many origins b) unidirectional with many origin
c) bidirectional with a single origin d) unidirectional with a single origin
11. The chemical substance produced by some microbes which can kill or retard the growth of other
microbes are called.
a) antiseptics b) antacids c) antibiotics d) all of these
12. Short lived immunity acquired from mother to foetus across placenta or through mothers milk to the
infant is categorised as
a) Active immunity b) passive immunity
c) cellular immunity d) Innate non specific immunity
13. Antivenom against snake poison contains
a) Antibodies b) antigen c) antigen antibody complexes d) enzymes
14. B.O.D.of waste water is estimated by measuring the amount of
a) Total organic matter b) biodegradable organic matter
c) oxygen evolution d) oxygen consumption
15. Bacillus thuringiensis(Bt)strains have been used for designing novel.
a)Biofertilizers b) Bio- metallurgical technique
c) Biomineralization process d) Bio insecticides plant
16. The function of the secretion of prostate gland is to
a) Inhibit sperm activity b) attracts sperms
c) stimulate sperm activity d) none of these
Q. no 17 to 20 are Assertion – Reasoning based questions. These consist of two statements – Assertion (A)
and Reason ®. Answer these questions selecting the appropriate option given below:
a)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
b)Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A
c) A is true but R is false
d) R is true but A is false
17. Assertion-Fertilization of flowers produces fruits and seeds.
Reason-After fertilization the ovary develops into fruits and ovule develops into seed.
18. Assertion-.Fimbriae are finger like projections of infundibulum part of oviduct which is closest to ovary.
Reason-They are important for the collection of ovum after ovulation of ovary.
19. Assertion plasmodium vivaxis responsible for malaria.
Reason-malaria is caused by polluted water.
20. Assertion-An inoculum of curd is used for curdling of milk
. Reason- it contains Lactobacillus which improve nutritional quality by increasing vitamin B12.

Section -B
21. Human blood group is a good example of multiple allelismand co-dominance justify.
22. What is colostrum how does it provide initial protection against disease to newborn infant give reason.
23. Write Initiation codon and stop codon.
24. What is point mutation? Name the disease that results from point mutation.
25. What are STDs. Mention any two of it.
26. What are' flocs' formed during secondary treatment of sewage.
OR
What is corpus luteum? Write its function

Section -C
27. Explain the mode of action of cu++ releasing IUD as a good contraceptive. How is hormone releasing
IUD different from it.
28. Describe the structure of nucleosome with the help of Diagram.
29. Study the diagram showing the entry of HIV into the
human body and the processes that are followed:
(a) Name the human cell ‘A’ HIV enters into.
(b)Mention the genetic material ‘B’ HIV releases into the cell.
(c)Identify the enzyme ‘C’.
 OR
Draw a sectional view of a human ovary and labelled primary follicle, tertiary follical, graafianfollicaland
corpus luteum in it.
30. What is biogas ?How is it produced and Name the microbe invaded in biogas production.
31. What is double fertilization in angiosperms ?Whereand how does it take place? write the products of
double fertilization.

Section D
Read the text carefully and answer the following questions.
32.Colour blindness is a sex -linked recessive disorder which resultsin defect in either red or green cornea
of eye. It does not mean not seeing any colour at all in fact it leads to the failure of discrimination between
red and green colour.
The gene for colour blindness is present in X chromosome which is present mostly in male because of the
presence of only X chromosome as compared to the chromosomes in female. Heterozygous female has
normal vision but a carrier can pass on the disorder to some of her son.
a) What is colour blindness?
b) The gene responsible for colour blindness is present on which chromosome?
c) If a colour blind man marries a woman whose carries of colour blindness. The probability of the son
being colour blind will be?
OR
Anil is having colour blindness and married to shital whose not colour blindness .what is the chance that
their son will have the disease?
33. We use microbes or products which are derived from them every day. A common example is the
production of curd from milk. Micro-organisms such as Lactobacillus and others commonly called lactic acid
bacteria (LAB) grow in milk and convert it to curd. The dough, which is used for making foods such as dosa
and idli is also fermented by bacteria. A number of traditional drinks and foods are also made by
fermentation by the microbes. ThT dough used for making bread is fermented by Saccharomyces
cereviseae commonly called bakers yeast. ‘Toddy’, a traditional drink of some parts of southern India is
made by fermenting sap from palms. The ‘Roquefort cheese’ is ripened by growing specific fungi on them,
which gives them a particular flavour. Different varieties of cheese are known by their characteristic
texture, flavour and taste, the specificity coming from the microbes used. Yeast and certain bacteria play a
key role in fermentation to break down carbohydrates into ethanol and carbon dioxide which are then
further used to prepare acetic acid with the help of the bacterium Acetobacteraceti. Alcoholic fermentation
in anaerobic process, but the conversion of alcohol to acetic acid is aerobic.
(a)Mention the functions of LAB that are useful to man.
(b) What is fermentation?
c) Which microorganism is commonly called bakers yeast and why?
Or
How is ‘Roquefort cheese’ is ripened and why?

Section -E
34. Described the structure of a microsporangium with a neatly labelled diagram.
OR
Explain the following phases in the menstrual cycle of a human female and draw diagram .
a) Menstrual phase b) follicular phase c) Luteal phase
35.Explain one application of each one of the following.
a) Amniocentesis b) lactationalamenorrhea c) ZIFT d) MTP
OR
Mandal crossed a homozygous pea plant having yellow and round seeds with another pea plant bearing
green and wrinkle seads. he found that in some of the F2 population new combination of parental
characters were observed. How will you explain the appearance of new combination of parental characters
in F2 offspring ?support your answer with the help of punnet square.
36. Plasmodium enter the human body through the bite of infected female Anopheles.trace its life cycle till
the onset of malaria in human.
OR
Explain the mechanism of DNA replication with the help of a replication fork.what role does the enzyme
DNA ligase play in DNA replication fork