This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Science > Biology > Class 11 Biology Chapter 10 Cell Cycle And Cell Division – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Biology Chapter 10 Cell Cycle And Cell Division Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is not a stage of mitosis: A) Metaphase. B) Prophase. C) Interphase. D) Anaphase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interphase. 2. The genetic material / Blueprint, instructions for life / determines your traits A) Genes. B) DNA. C) RNA. D) Mitosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) DNA. 3. Where is smooth muscle tissue found? A) Attached to bones by tendons. B) In the walls of the heart. C) In the walls of blood vessels and around the intestines and in the uterine and urinary tracts. D) In the outer ear (pinna). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the walls of blood vessels and around the intestines and in the uterine and urinary tracts. 4. What is the term for the X-shaped structures formed during diplotene? A) Chiasmata. B) Centromeres. C) Bivalents. D) Chromatids. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chiasmata. 5. What is the result of cell division? A) Four identical daughter cells. B) Four different daughter cells. C) Two identical daughter cells. D) Two different daughter cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two identical daughter cells. 6. What stage of the cell cycle involves DNA replication A) G0. B) M. C) G1. D) S. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) S. 7. The cell spends most of its time in (in between) which phase? A) Interphase. B) Anaphase. C) Metaphase. D) Prophase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interphase. 8. Cancer is the uncontrolled division of cells. In other words, it is uncontrolled ..... A) Interphase. B) Cytokinesis. C) Meiosis. D) Mitosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mitosis. 9. Rapid growth and replication, or copying, of the membrane-bound structures called organelles is a part of this phase A) Telophase. B) Mitosis. C) Metaphase. D) Interphase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interphase. 10. Which of the following is a possible result of a disruption in the cell cycle? A) Cancer. B) Cellular respiration. C) Protein synthesis. D) Photosynthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cancer. 11. What is the structure of prokaryotic DNA compared to eukaryotic DNA? A) Prokaryotic DNA is longer and linear. B) Prokaryotic DNA is shorter and circular. C) Prokaryotic DNA is exactly the same as eukaryotic DNA. D) Prokaryotic DNA is associated with histone proteins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prokaryotic DNA is shorter and circular. 12. In which stage of interphase is DNA replicated? A) Mitosis. B) G1. C) G2. D) S. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) S. 13. Which of the following process is responsible for producing genetic recombination? A) Exchange of segments between sister chromatids of homologous chromosomes. B) Synapsis. C) Chiasmata. D) Crossing over. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crossing over. 14. Most cells in an organism go through a cycle of growth, development, and division called? A) Mitosis. B) Cytokinesis. C) Cell cycle. D) Sister Chromatid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cell cycle. 15. Which option below is lists the types of animal tissues? A) Muscle, nervous, epithelial, and connective. B) Dermal, vascular, and ground. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muscle, nervous, epithelial, and connective. 16. What term is used to describe organisms that have more than two sets of chromosomes? A) Monoploid. B) Haploid. C) Diploid. D) Polyploid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polyploid. 17. In meiosis, the number of daughter cells formed at the end is ..... A) One. B) Two. C) Three. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Four. 18. What happens when guard cells close the stomata? A) Photosynthesis is maximized. B) Water loss is stopped and gas exchange is also halted. C) Nutrients are transported more efficiently. D) The plant grows taller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water loss is stopped and gas exchange is also halted. 19. Cells spend 90% of their time in this stage of the cell cycle. This is the reason you would see most cells in this stage if viewed under a microscope. A) Anaphase. B) Prophase. C) Interphase. D) Metaphase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interphase. 20. Which one of the following is a cue for constantly dividing cells to stop cellular division? A) Contact Inhibition. B) Mechanical injury or shock. C) Change of temperature in the immediate surroundings of the cell. D) Change in the intensity of light the dividing cell is exposed to. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contact Inhibition. 21. Which event marks the transition from prophase to metaphase in mitosis? A) Disappearance of nucleolus. B) Formation of spindle fibers. C) Completion of chromosome condensation. D) Disintegration of nuclear envelope. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disintegration of nuclear envelope. 22. In the cell cycle, mitosis occurs between ..... A) G$_{1}$ and S phase. B) S and G$_{1}$ phase. C) S and G$_{2}$ phase. D) G$_{1}$ and G$_{2 }$phase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) S and G$_{2}$ phase. 23. Stage in which the cell's nuclear material divides and separates ..... A) G1. B) Mitosis. C) Synthesis. D) G2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mitosis. 24. What is the number of chromosomes in a human cell during interphase? A) 23. B) 46. C) 92. D) 184. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 46. 25. Mitosis is the division of the ..... what? A) Cell. B) Cytoplasm. C) Gametes. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nucleus. 26. Interphase has 3 stages; G1, S, and G2. What happens during synthesis? A) Cells grow and carry out normal functions. B) Cells copy organelles and prepare for a critical checkpoint. C) The cell splits into two new daughter cells. D) The cell makes a copy of its DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The cell makes a copy of its DNA. 27. When is apoptosis initiated? A) When DNA damage is repaired. B) When cells are removed from the cell cycle. C) When DNA damage cannot be repaired. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When DNA damage cannot be repaired. 28. The mitotic phase creates two new identical cells. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 29. During what stage does the G1, S and G2 phases happen? A) Mitosis. B) M phase. C) Cytokinesis. D) Interphase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interphase. 30. The structure that holds together two sisterchromatids A) Daughter cells. B) Sister chromatids. C) Centromere. D) Centriole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Centromere. 31. Which of these is paired correctly? A) Adenine-GuanineCytosine-Thymine/Uracil. B) Adenine-UracilCytosine-Guanine/ Thymine. C) Adenine-Thymine/ UracilCytosine-Guanine. D) Adenine-CytosineGuanine-Thymine/ Uracil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adenine-Thymine/ UracilCytosine-Guanine. 32. Some cell types have short cell cycles, while others have much longer cell cycles. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 33. A human body cell has ..... chromosomes. A) 4. B) 46. C) 23. D) 6. E) 92. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 46. 34. How many generations are required by apical meritem cell to produce 512 cells? A) 9. B) 511. C) 128. D) 256. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 9. 35. During what stage does the G$_{1}$, S and G$_{2}$ phases happen? A) Interphase. B) Cytokinesis. C) Mitosis. D) M phase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interphase. 36. Four different steps that occur during meiosis are given in the following list:i) Complete separation of chromatidsii) Pairing of homologous chromosomesiii) Lining up of paired chromosomes on equatoriv) Crossing over between chromatidsSelect the correct sequential arrangement of the steps. A) (ii), (iv), (iii), (i). B) (iii), (i), (ii), (iv). C) (ii), (iii), (iv), (i). D) (iii), (ii), (iv), (i). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) (ii), (iv), (iii), (i). 37. The cell that goes through mitosis is called the A) Parent cell. B) Daughter cell. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parent cell. 38. In what phase do the organelles disperse out into the daughter cells, and the cell prepares for cytokinesis? A) Interphase. B) Mitosis. C) Prophase. D) Telophase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Telophase. 39. The cell cycle, or cell-division cycle, is the series of events that take place in a cell that cause it to divide into A) The G2 phase. B) Two brother cells. C) Two mitochondria. D) Two daughter cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two daughter cells. 40. The stage of mitosis in which chromosomes remain most condensed is: A) Prophase. B) Anaphase. C) Metaphase. D) Telophase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphase. 41. A cell spends ..... % of its cycle in ..... A) 100, interphase. B) 40, mitosis. C) 90, interphase. D) 10, cytokinesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 90, interphase. 42. During which checkpoint does the cell check to make sure the DNA is copied correctly. A) G1 Checkpoint. B) G2 Checkpoint. C) Interphase Checkpoint. D) Metaphase Checkpoint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) G2 Checkpoint. 43. DNA carries our genetic information. True or False A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 44. In 'S' phase of the cell cycle: A) Amount of DNA remains same in each cell. B) Amount of DNA is reduced to half in each cell. C) Chromosome number is increased. D) Amount of DNA doubles in each cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amount of DNA doubles in each cell. 45. The chromatids decondense into chromatin and the nuclear membrane reforms. The cell shows signs of beginning to separate. A) Telophase. B) Anaphase. C) Metaphase. D) Cytokinesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Telophase. 46. Separation of homologous chromosomes during Anaphase 1 is called? A) Synapsis. B) Non-disjunction. C) Disjunction. D) Crossing over. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disjunction. 47. Each nucleosome has ..... number of histone protein A) Seven. B) Five. C) Six. D) Eight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eight. 48. It is beneficial for a cell to have a A) High surface area to volume ratio. B) Low surface area to volume ratio. C) No surface area. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) High surface area to volume ratio. 49. Chromosomes line up in a single file at the middle of the cell is which stage of mitosis? A) Telophase. B) Metaphase. C) Anaphase. D) Prophase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphase. 50. In the S stage of interphase, ..... A) The cell grows. B) The DNA is replicated. C) The cell membrane divides. D) The nucleus divides. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The DNA is replicated. 51. Which stage of interphase is growth and DNA (Chromosome) replication A) G1. B) S. C) G2. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) S. 52. Which molecules act as gatekeepers for each checkpoint of the cell cycle? A) P53 gene. B) Cyclins and cycline-dependent kinases. C) Thyroid hormones. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cyclins and cycline-dependent kinases. 53. Carries out normal functions but does not divide; these cells remove themselves from the cell cycle A) G0. B) G2. C) G1. D) S. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) G0. 54. Fruit fly body cells have 8 chromosomes. After the cell cycle, you would expect a resulting fruit fly daughter cell to have- A) 4 chromosomes. B) 16 chromosomes. C) 46 chromosomes. D) 8 chromosomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 8 chromosomes. 55. Which event does not occur during interphase of the cell cycle? A) DNA Replication. B) Organelles replication. C) Protein synthesis. D) Chromatin condenses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chromatin condenses. 56. What is a heterotroph A) Organism that needs to consume other organisms for energy. B) Organism that performs photosynthesis in order to gain energy. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organism that needs to consume other organisms for energy. 57. Which of the following is key event of anaphase of mitotic division? A) Chromosomes are moved to spindle equator and get aligned through spindle fibres to both poles. B) Centromeres split and chromatids separate. C) Chromosomes cluster at opposite spindle poles and their identify is lost as discrete elements. D) Both (b) and (c). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Centromeres split and chromatids separate. 58. What is the process of cell division in prokaryotes that forms two new identical cells? A) Interphase. B) Meiosis. C) Binary fission. D) Mitosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Binary fission. 59. In what phase of mitosis does DNA condense into visible chromosomes? A) Anaphase. B) Prophase. C) Metaphase. D) Telophase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prophase. 60. One difference between mitotic cell division in animals and in plants is that in plants A) Chromosomes are duplicated, whereas in animals chromosomes are not duplicated. B) Spindle fibers are formed, whereas in animals spindle fibers are not formed. C) Cell plates are formed, whereas in animal cells, plates are not formed. D) Chromosomes are separated, whereas in animals chromosomes are not separated. 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