This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Science > Biology > Class 11 Biology Chapter 10 Cell Cycle And Cell Division – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Biology Chapter 10 Cell Cycle And Cell Division Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Uncontrolled cell division is stopped by ..... A) Tumor suppressor genes. B) Oncogenes. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tumor suppressor genes. 2. Significance of mitosis is in- A) Producing identical cells genetically similar to mother cell. B) In reducing the chromosome (2N $\rightarrow$ N). C) Increasing cellular mass. D) Producing 4 cells with genetic variations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Producing identical cells genetically similar to mother cell. 3. When cell has stalled DNA replication fork, which checkpoint should be predominantly activated? A) M. B) Both G2/M and M. C) G1/S. D) G2/M. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) G1/S. 4. During a biology class, Benjamin and Grace were discussing the structure of a cell. They were curious to know in which organelle the genetic material is found inside. Can you help them? A) Golgi Complex. B) Endoplasmic Reticulum. C) Nucleus. D) Nucleolus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nucleus. 5. What is the phase of the cell cycle where the cell grows and prepares for division? A) Telophase. B) Prophase. C) Metaphase. D) Interphase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interphase. 6. Why is the Cell Cycle often represented as a circle? A) Because it is easy to draw. B) Because cell cycles has a distinct beginning and end point. C) To highlight the checkpoints. D) To show that it repeats over and over. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To show that it repeats over and over. 7. Cell cycle is paused, cells does neither grows nor divides (I.e. neurons are in this forever) (cell cycle arrest) A) S. B) G0. C) M. D) G2. E) G1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) G0. 8. Mitosis includes the phases A) Interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and cytokinesis. B) Interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. C) Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. D) Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and cytokinesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. 9. Which enzyme adds on new nucleotides during replication? A) DNA Polymerase. B) DNA Unwindase. C) RNA Primase. D) DNA Helicase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) DNA Polymerase. 10. Ln the somatic cell cycle A) G2-phase follows mitotic phase. B) DNA content doubles in G1 phase. C) A short interphase is followed by along mitotic phase. D) DNA replication takes place inS-phase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) DNA replication takes place inS-phase. 11. How many chromosomes are in each human body cell? A) 48. B) 46. C) 23. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 46. 12. Karyokinesis differs from cytokinesis as it involves division of A) Cytoplasm. B) Nucleus. C) Both nucleus and cytoplasm. D) Cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nucleus. 13. Put the following in order:G2, G1, S, mitosis, cytokinesis. A) G1, S, G2, Mitosis, cytokinesis. B) G1, G2, S, Mitosis, cytokinesis. C) G1, S, G2, cytokinesis, mitosis. D) G1, G2, S, cytokinesis, mitosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) G1, S, G2, Mitosis, cytokinesis. 14. Each chromosome consists of 2 ..... A) Daughter cells. B) Sister chromatids. C) Centromeres. D) Centrioles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sister chromatids. 15. It contains the genetic material and serves as the control center of the cell. A) Telophase. B) Nuclear membrane. C) Spindle fibers. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nucleus. 16. The diploid chromosome compliment of human somatic cell consists of how many chromosomes? A) 14. B) 46. C) 58. D) 23. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 46. 17. How many chromosomes are in the new cells of meiosis? A) 46. B) 23. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 23. 18. Cells of organism make mitosis for? A) Growth. B) Repair of damaged tissue. C) Replacement of dying cells. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. Selectively permeable outermost layer of the cell: A) Cell Membrane. B) Chromatin. C) Nucleus. D) Microtubules. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cell Membrane. 20. The spindle fibers pull and push the duplicated chromosomes to the middle of the cell A) Metaphase. B) Prophase. C) Anaphase. D) Telophase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphase. 21. During what phase of meiosis do sister chromatids split? A) Anaphase II. B) Prophase II. C) Anaphase I. D) Metaphase I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphase II. 22. Chromatid pairs can be seen, spindle fibers form and nuclear membrane disappears A) Metaphase. B) Anaphase. C) Telophase. D) Prophase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prophase. 23. Cancer creates abnormal cells by disrupting A) Red blood cell formation. B) ATP synthesis. C) The cell cycle. D) DNA replication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cell cycle. 24. The division of the nucleus is known as: A) G1. B) Synthesis. C) Mitosis. D) G2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mitosis. 25. During which stage of interphase does the DNA duplicate. A) M Phase. B) G2 Phase. C) G1 Phase. D) S Phase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) S Phase. 26. The structure of coiled DNA and proteins that forms in the cells nucleus prior to mitosis is A) Centriole. B) Chromatid. C) Chromosome. D) Centromere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chromosome. 27. Which type of cell division maintains the chromosome number in a cell constant? A) Splitting. B) Budding. C) Mitosis. D) Meiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mitosis. 28. If the number of bivalents are 20, What shall be the number of chromosomes in daughter cells after meiosis 1 and meiosis 2 respectively? A) 10 and 20. B) 20 and 40. C) 10 and 10. D) 20 and 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 20 and 20. 29. If a cell has 30 chromosomes, each new cell after mitosis will have ..... chromosomes. A) 60. B) 45. C) 15. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 30. 30. What is the name of the structure found inside the nucleus that is involved in producing ribosomes? A) Cell membrane. B) Mitochondria. C) Chloroplast. D) Nucleolus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nucleolus. 31. The term mitosis was coined by? A) Thomson. B) Watson. C) Addison. D) Flemming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flemming. 32. In which stage of the cell cycle is protein and organelle synthesis A) G1. B) Cytokinesis. C) G2. D) S phase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) G2. 33. These move the chromosomes during mitosis A) Deep furrows. B) Centrioles. C) Centromeres. D) Spindle fibers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spindle fibers. 34. The process of where one cell becomes two cells is called ..... A) The cell cycle. B) Mitosis. C) Cytokinesis. D) Cell division. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The cell cycle. 35. A jelly-like substance found inside a cell surrounding its organelles is A) Mitosis. B) Cytokenisis. C) Cytoplasm. D) Epithelial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cytoplasm. 36. In which stage of the cell cycle does nuclear splitting take place? A) G$_{2}$. B) Cytokinesis. C) Mitosis. D) S. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mitosis. 37. A cell with membrane-bound structures. A) Eukaryotic. B) Centromere. C) Cytokinesis. D) Daughter cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eukaryotic. 38. As a cell grows, its ..... increases more than its ..... A) Length, volume. B) Width, surface area. C) Volume, surface area. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volume, surface area. 39. A haploid cell (having n number of chromosomes) undergoes mitosis. What will be the number of chromosomes in this haploid cell at the end of mitosis? A) 1/2 n. B) 4n. C) 2n. D) N. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) N. 40. Which of the following cannot be attributed to Metaphase? A) Chromosomes arrange themselves along the equator. B) Spindle fibers get attached to the centromeres. C) Spindle fibers get attached to the nucleosome. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spindle fibers get attached to the nucleosome. 41. During which stage of the cell cycle does mitosis and cytokinesis occur? A) G1 phase. B) Interphase. C) S phase. D) M phase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) M phase. 42. Which phase of mitosis involves the division of the nucleus? A) Metaphase. B) Anaphase. C) Telophase. D) Prophase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Telophase. 43. During which phase of meiosis do homologous chromosomes line up next to each other along the midline? A) Homologous chromosomes do not line up next to each other in meiosis. B) Metaphase II. C) Prophase I. D) Metaphase I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphase II. 44. In which phase of mitosis do two new nuclei begin to form? A) End of prometaphase. B) End of telophase. C) End of metophase. D) End of interphase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End of telophase. 45. Checkpoint which controls the entry of cell from one phase to another and ensures that the damage in DNA is not replicated is mainly present in- A) G1 to S-phase. B) S-phase to G1. C) G1 to G2. D) G2 phase only. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) G1 to S-phase. 46. In this phase of the cell cycle, the cell grows bigger. A) Mitosis/cytokinesis. B) S. C) G2. D) G1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) G1. 47. This is the stage of the cell cycle responsible for nuclear division. A) Cytokinesis. B) Interphase. C) Gap 1. D) Mitosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mitosis. 48. In a biology class, Emma, Lily, and Ethan are learning about cell division. During Anaphase, what are separated? A) Chromosomes. B) Spindle Fibers. C) Sister Chromatids. D) Telomeres. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sister Chromatids. 49. What is the process called when maternal and paternal chromosomes become intertwined and exchange corresponding regions? A) Chromosomal alignment. B) Crossing over. C) Genetic recombination. D) Independent assortment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crossing over. 50. If a cell is exposed to a toxin, what type of cell death would occur A) Necrosis. B) Apoptosis. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Necrosis. 51. Joining of two specialized cells called gametes (egg and sperm) 2 parents / takes longer / creates genetic diversity A) Mitosis. B) Interphase. C) Sexual Reproduction. D) Asexual Reproduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sexual Reproduction. 52. Before cells can divide, what must be replicated in the S phase? A) Mitochondria. B) Cytoplasm. C) DNA. D) Cell Wall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) DNA. 53. What is the longest stage (cell spends 90% here) of the cell cycle called? A) M phase. B) G1 Phase. C) Interphase. D) Cytokinesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interphase. 54. BONUS:How long is the whole cell cycle for most animal cells? A) 2-3 hours. B) 24 hours. C) 2-3 days. D) 23 hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 24 hours. 55. During the cell cycle, the cell's nucleus and its contents divide to create two ..... A) Organisms. B) Organs. C) Identical daughter cells. D) Organelles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Identical daughter cells. 56. The phase of mitosis during which the nuclear envelope fragments and the nucleoli disappear is called A) Telophase. B) Interphase. C) Prophase. D) Metaphase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prophase. 57. The total number of cells in an organism increases as a result of which process? A) Respiration. B) Photosynthesis. C) Fermentation. D) Cell division. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cell division. 58. During this phase of the cell cycle, DNA is replicated or copied. A) S phase. B) G2 phase. C) Cytokinesis. D) G1 phase. E) Mitosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) S phase. 59. A somatic cell that has just completed the S phase of its cell cycle, as compared to a gamete of the same species, has A) Twice the number of chromosomes and twice the amount of DNA. B) The same number of chromosomes but twice the amount of DNA. C) Twice the number of chromosomes and four times the amount of DNA. D) Four times the number of chromosomes and twice the amount of DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Twice the number of chromosomes and four times the amount of DNA. 60. Which of the following statements about mitosis is NOT correct? A) Mitosis is cell division that produces two daughter cells. B) Each daughter cell formed by mitosis has the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell. C) The parent cell and the daughter cells are genetically identical. 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