BHARATHI ACADEMY, REDDIPATTI, NKL.

FULL TEST – 2 - 2024 – 2025

STD : X – D ___ BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE (Exam) MARKS : 80
DATE : 01/01/2025 TIME : 3 Hrs
SECTION - A 20 x 1 = 20
1. Identify the two components of phloem tissue that help in transportation of food in
plants.
a) Phloem parenchyma and sieve tubes b) Sieve tubes and companion cells
c) Phloem parenchyma and companion cells d) Phloem fibres and sieve tubes
2. The process in which loss of water in the form of vapours from the aerial parts of plants
taken place is X , which helps in Y. Here X and Y respectively are
a) transpiration and photosynthesis
b) translocation and movement of soluble products of photosynthesis in phloem
c) transpiration and temperature regulation
d) translocation and absorption of water and minerals form soil by roots.
3. Posture and balance of the body is controlled by
a) cerebrum b) cerebellum c) medulla d) pons
4. Iodine is necessary for the synthesis of which hormone?
a) Adernaline b) Thyroxin c) Auxin d) Insulin
5. The groth of pollen tubes towards ovules is due to _______.
a) Hydrotropism b) Chemotropism c) geotropism d) phototropism
6. The substance that triggers the fall of mature leave and fruits from plants
a) auxin b) gibberellins c) abscisic acid d) cytokinin
7. In Spirogyra, asexual reproduction takes place by
a) breaking up of filaments into smaller bits b) division of a cell into two cells
c) division of a cell into many cells d) they are all multicellular
8. Which of the following statements are true for flowers?
i) Flowers are always bisexual ii) They are the sexual reproductive organs
iii) They are produced in all groups of plants iv) After fetilisation they give rise to fruits
a) (i) and (iv) b) (ii) and (iii) c) (i) and (iii) d) (ii) and (iv)
9. In figure, parts A, B and C are sequentially
a) cotyledon, plumule and radical b) plumule, radical and cotyledon
c) plumule, cotyledon and radical d) radical, cotyledon and plumule
10. In human males, the testes lie in the scrotum, because it helps in the ____.
a) process of mating b) formation of sperm c) easy transfer of gametes d) all the above
11. Regeneration refers to _____.
a) body of organism breaking into fragments and each fragment growing into an adult
b) formation of buds for asexual reproduction
c) division of cells into many daughter cells
d) broken pieces of body growing into an adult
12. The ________ becomes part of a fruit.
a) Ovary and stamen b) Ovule and pollen tube c) Ovule and ovary d) none of the above
13. According to e the evolutionary theory, formation of a new species is generally due to ____.
a) sudden creation by nature
b) accumulation of variations over several generations
c) clones formed during asexual reproduction
d) Movement in individuals from one habitat to another
14. The two version of a trait (character) which are brought in by the male and feale gametes are
situated on
a) copies of the same chromosome b) two different chromosomes
c) sex chromosomes d) any chromosome
15. In peas, a pure tall plant (TT) is crossed with a short plant (tt). The ratio of pure tall plants
to short plants in F2 is _______.
a) 1 : 3 b) 3 : 1 c) 1 : 1 d) 2 : 1
16. Choose the ratio not applicable to monohybrid cross.
a) 1 : 2 : 1 b) 9 : 3 : 3 : 1 c) 1 : 1 d) 3 : 1
Assertion - Reasoning based questions. These consist of two statements – Assertion (A) and Reason
(R). Answer these questions selecting the appropriate option given below:
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A (c) A is true but R is false
(b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A (d) A is False but R is true17.
Assertion : Pollination an fertilization occur in seedless fruits.
Reason : Hormones help to produce seedless fruits.
18. Assertion : The fertilized egg becomes the embryo in a plant.
Reason : In monocots two cotyledons nourish the embryo.
19. Assertion : In humans, if gene (B) is responsible for back eyes and gene (b) is
responsible for brown eyes, then the colour of eyes of progeny having
gene combination Bb, bb, or BB will be black only.
Reason : The black colour of the eyes is a dominant trait.
20. Assertion : Traits of an individual developed during violet flowers with a pea plant
having white flowers. He got all violet flowers in the first generation.
Reason : They are not inherited by the progeny

SECTION - B 6 x 2 = 12
1. Given below is a diagram of a germinating seed. Label the parts.
a) Gives rise to future shoot b) Stores food c) Gives rise to future root.
2. a) Name the glands pouring secretion into small intestine.
b) Name the vestigial organ found in digestive system
3. Why is the rate of breathing in aquatic organisms much faster than in terrestrial
organisms?
4. Plants have low energy needs as compared to animals. Explain
5. What is the difference between the manners in which movement tales places in a sensitive
plant and the movement in our legs.
6. Can you considered cell division as a type of reproduction in unicellular organisms? Give
one reason.
7. Can plants which same phenotype have same genotype. Give reason
(OR)
What will happen , if we kill all the organisms in one trophic level.
SECTION - C 7 x 3 = 21
1. a) In the process of respiration, state the function of alveoli
b) Comlete the following pathway showing the breakdown of glucose:

2. Describe in brief how urine is produced in human body?

3. What is biological magnification? Will the levels of this magnification be different levels of
the ecosystem?
4. Some plants like pea plants have tendrils which help them to climb up other plants.
Explain how it is done. Name the plant hormone responsible for this movement.
(OR)
Mention three phyto hormones and role in plants.
5. Draw a diagram of L.S of pistil exhibiting germination of pollen n stigma and label.
a) Ovary b) Male germ cell c) Female germ cell d) Ovule on it
(OR)
What are the advantages of vegetative propagation?
6. Draw a flowchart to show that sex is determined genetically in human being.
7. i) Create a terrestrial food chain depicting four trophic levels.
 ii) Why do we not find food chains of more than four trophic levels?
SECTION - D 3 x 5 = 15
1. a) A gas is released during photosynthesis. Name the gas and also state the way by which
the gas is evolved.
b) What are stomata? What governs the opening and closing of stomata?
(OR)
a) Draw a diagram of human alimentary canal and label – gall bladder, pancreas, liver and
small intestine on it.
b) Give two reasons to explain why absorption of digested food occurs mainly in the small
intestine.
2. Draw a neat diagram showing fertilisation in a flower and label
(a) Pollen tube (b) Male germ cell and
(c) Female germ cell, on it. Explain the process of fertilization in a flower.
What happens to the (i) ovary and (ii) ovule after fertilization?
3. a) What are decomposers? What will be the consequence of their absence in an
ecosystem?
b) Give two differences between food chain and food web
SECTION - E 3 x 4 = 12
Case based question:
1. Life processes are the basic processes, which are being carried out for the
survival of living entities. These processes are vital for sustaining life. Holozoic nutrition is
the process of nutrition that takes place in organisms which take solid or liquid food inside
their body. Amoeba follows holozoic nutrition. Holozoic nutrition in amoeba takes place in
the following steps:
1. Ingestion 2. Digestion 3. Absorption 4. Assimilation 5. Egestion
1. The fluid that helps in transporting nutrients to all body cells:
(a) Serum (b) Villi (c) Large Intestine (d) Blood and lymph
2. This has a smaller intestine
(a) carnivore (b) herbivore (c) both (a) and (b) (d) none of the above
3. The process of converting complex into simple substances:
(a) Ingestion (b) Absorption (c) Assimilation (d) Digestion
4. The assimilation process involves:
(a) Breakdown of glucose (b) Removal of nitrogenous waste
(c) Obtaining energy from absorbed food (d) Both a and b
2. Pea plants can have smooth seeds or wrinkled seeds. One of the phenotypes is
completely dominant over the other. A farmer decides to pollinate one flower of a plant with
smooth seeds using pollen from plant with wrinkled seeds. The resulting pea pod has all
smooth seeds.
(i) Which of the following conclusions can be drawn?
(1) The allele for smooth seeds is dominated over that of wrinkled seeds.
(2) The plant with smooth seeds is heterozygous.
(3) The plant with wrinkled seeds is homozygous.
(a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
 (ii) Which of the following crosses will give smooth and wrinkled seeds in same proportion?
(a) RR X rr (b) Rr x rr (c) RRX Rr (d) rrrr
(iii) Which of the following cross can be used to determine the genotype of a plant with
dominant phenotype?
(a) RR RR (b) Rr x Rr (c) Rr RR (d) RR x rr
(iv) On crossing of two heterozygous smooth seeded plants (Rr), a total of 1000 plants were
obtained in F1 generation. What will be the respective number of smooth and wrinkled
seeds obtained in F1 generation?
(a) 750, 250 (b) 500, 500 (c) 800, 200 (d) 950, 50
3. 1.) Food chains are very important for the survival of most species. When only
one element is removed from the food chain it can result in extinction of a species in some
cases. The foundation of the food chain consists of primary producers. Primary producers,
or autotrophs, can use either solar energy or chemical energy to create complex organic
compounds, whereas species at higher trophic levels cannot and so must consume
producers or other life that itself consumes producers. Because the sun’s light is necessary
for photosynthesis, most life could not exist if the sun disappeared. Even so, it has recently
been discovered that there are some forms of life, chemotrophs, that appear to gain all their
metabolic energy from chemosynthesis driven by hydrothermal vents, thus showing that
some life may not require solar energy to thrive.
i) If 10,000 J solar energy falls on green plants in a terrestrial ecosystem, what percentage
of solar energy will be converted into food energy?
a) 10,000 J b) 100 J c) 1000 J
d) It will depend on the type of the terrestrial plant.
ii) Matter and energy are two fundamental inputs of an ecosystem. Movement of
a) Energy is bidirectional and matter is repeatedly circulating.
b) Energy is repeatedly circulation and matter is unidirectional.
c) Energy is unidirectional and matter is repeatedly circulating.
d) Energy is multidirectional and matter is bidirectional.
iii) Mr. X is eating curd/yogurt. For this food intake in a food chain he should be
considered as occupying
a) First trophic level b) Second trophic level
c) Third trophic level d) Fourth trophic level
iv) Which of the following limits the number of trophic levels in a food chain?
a) Decrease in energy at higher trophic levels b) Less availability of food
c) Polluted air d) Water