Tuesday, December 17, 2013

CSIR-UGC LIFE SCIENCE PRACTICE MCQ PHOTOSYNTHESIS



   1. Which among the following element is essential
          for photolysis of water
                (a) Nitrogen                           (b) Chlorine
                (c) Carbon                             (d) Oxygen
                (e) Magnesium
   2. Plants are known as purifiers of air due to the
         process of
                (a) Respiration                     (b) Photosynthesis
                (c) Transpiration                  (d) Dessication
                (e) Guttation
   3. The percentage of light absorbed by chlorophyll
         from total absorption is
                (a) 12%                  (b) 83%                  (c) 96%
                (d) 4%                    (e) 5%
  4. When the CO2 uptake cannot be increased by
         increasing the light, it is referred to as:
                (a) Extinction point
                (b) CO2 saturation point
                (c) Light saturation point
                (d) Light compensation point
                (e) None
   5. Which among the following conditions are
          favourable for cyclic photophosphorylation:
                (a) Aerobic condition only
                (b) Aerobic and low light intensity
                (c) Aerobic and optimumk light
                (d) Anaerobic and low light intensity
                (e) Anaerobic and optimum light
   6. When pigment system II is illuminated in presence
          of ferricyanides and NADP, it can carry out
                (a) Hill reaction
                (b) Cyclic photophosphorylation
                (c) Dark reaction
                (d) All of these
                (e) None of these
   7. The synthesis of chlorophyll-a is traced back to
          which component of Kreb’s cycle
                (a) Oxaloacetic acid            (b) Succinyl CoA
                (c) Fumaric acid                   (d) Oxalosuccinic acid
                (e) Succinic acid
   8. Which among the following plant is used in the study
          of photosynthesis?
                (a) Chlorella                         (b) Asparagus
                (c) Garden Pea                      (d) Acetabularia
                (e) Hydrilla
   9. If X is the rate of photosynthesis at shorter wave
         length radiation, Y at higher wavelenth, Z is the rate
         at the combination of shorter and higher wavelength,
         then Emerson effect is
                (a) X > Z + Y                         (b) Z = X + Y
                (c) Z = X = Y                         (d) Z > X + Y
                (e) Z < X + Y
   10. During the dark reaction of photosynthesis
                (a) Water is split
                (b) CO2 is reduced to organic compounds
                (c) Chlorophyll is activated
                (d) 6 carbon sugar is broken into 3 carbon sugar
                (e) None


   11. The enzyme that fixes atmospheric CO2 in C4 plant
         is
                (a) PEP carboxylase             (b) RUBISCO
                (c) RUBP carboxylase         (d) Hydrogenase
                (e) Aldolase
   12. The number of carbon atom in the acceptor
         compound of carbondioxide in C3 plants is
                (a) 2                        (b) 3                        (c) 4
                (d) 5                        (e) 6
   13. In C4 plants carbondioxide reduction occur in
                (a) Mesophyll stroma
                (b) Guard cell stroma
                (c) Bundle sheath stroma
                (d) Palisade stroma
                (e) Spongy stroma
   14. The number of ATP and NADPH2 required to fix
         one molecule of CO2 is respectively
                (a) 3 and 2                             (b) 2 and 3
                (c) 5 and 3                             (d) 3 and 5
                (e) 5 and 2
   15. The energy coming from electrons as radiations
         when it come to the ground state from triplet stage
         is called as:
                (a) Incident light                  (b) Phosphorescence
                (c) Fluorescence                   (d) Sunlight
                (e) All of these
   16. Formation of energy currency of cell during
         photosynthesis is called as
                (a) Substrate level phosphorylation
                (b) Phosphorylation
                (c) Photophosphorylation
                (d) Oxidative phosphorylation
                (e) None of these
   17. The red drop phenomenon is due to the disruption
         of the photochemical activity of
                (a) Pigment system I
                (b) Pigment system II
                (c) Carotenoids
                (d) PSI and PS II
                (e) Any of these
   18. In photosynthesis hydrogen is transferred from the
         light reaction to the dark reaction by
                (a) DPN                                  (b) DNA
                (c) ATP                                  (d) NADP
                (e) NAD
   19. The first step in photosynthesis is the
                (a) Formation of ATP
                (b) Ionisation of water
                (c) Excitement of an electron of chlorophyll by
                 light
                (d) Joining of two 3-carbon compound to form
                 glucose
                (e) Formation of NADH2
   20. The electron gap formed in PS-I during non
         cyclic phosphorylation is filled due to the supply of
         electrons coming from
                (a) Pigment system I
                (b) Photolysis of water
                (c) Pigment system II
                (d) Oxidative phosphorylation
                (e) Photophosphorylation

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
B
B
D
C
C
A
B
A
D
B
A
E
C
A
B
C
B
D
C
C

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Pages

Founder Principle OR Founder Effect

When a few individuals or a small group migrate from a main population, only a limited portion of the parental gene pool is carried away. In...