ASHA PUBLIC SCHOOL

SECOND UNIT TEST EXAMINATION

CLASS- XII
BIOLOGY

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SET- B
Time Allowed: 1 2 Hours Maximum Marks: 40

Name………….…………………………………………….. Roll No. ……………….

General Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. The question paper has five sections and 18 questions. All questions are compulsory.
3. Section–A has 8 questions of 1 mark each; Section–B has 3 questions of 2 marks each; Section– C has 4
questions of 3 marks each; Section– D has 1 case-based questions of 4 marks; and Section–E has 2 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 labeled diagrams should be drawn.

SECTION- A
(Multiple Choice Questions)
Q. No. Questions Marks
1. Given below are four contraceptive methods and their modes of action. Select the correct 1
match:
Method Mode of action
A. Condom i. Ovum not able to reach Fallopian tube
B. Vasectomy ii. Prevents ovulation
C. Pill iii. Prevents sperm reaching the cervix
D. Tubectomy iv. Semen contains no sperms
Choose the correct match:
a) A-i, B-ii, C-iii, D-iv
b) A-iii, B-ii, C-iv, D-i
c) A-iii, B-iv, C-ii, D-i
d) A-iv, B-i, C-iii, D-ii
2. ZZ / ZW type of sex determination is seen in: 1
a) Platypus
b) Snails
c) Cockroach
d) Peacock
3. Who proved the Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance? 1
a) Thomas Hunt Morgan
b) Mendel
c) Alfred Sturtevant
d) Sutton and Boveri
4. Possibility of the blood groups of the children in a family where the father is heterozygous 1
for blood group ‘A’ and the mother is heterozygous for blood group ‘B’, would be:
a) Blood groups ‘A’, ’B’
b) Blood groups ‘A’, ’B’, ‘O’
c) Blood groups ‘AB’, ‘O’
d) Blood groups ‘A’, ’B’, ‘AB’, ‘O’
5. Choose the right one among the statements given below: 1
a) IUDs are generally inserted by the user herself
 b) IUDs increase phagocytosis reaction in the uterus
c) IUDs suppress gametogenesis
d) IUDs once inserted need not be replaced
6. A person was suffering from high blood cholesterol level. So to counter down it, the 1
doctor gave some medicines. In these medicines which one of the following can present?
a) Statin
b) Streptomycin
c) Cyclosporin A
d) Lipase
Question Nos. 7 and 8 consists 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).
b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
c) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
d) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
7. Assertion (A): A gamete contains a single allele for each trait. 1
Reason (R) : During gametogenesis, the two alleles of each trait segregate, one passing
into each gamete at random.
8. Assertion (A): Besides curdling of milk, LAB also improve its nutritional quality by 1
increasing Vitamin- B12.
Reason (R) : LAB, when present in human stomach, check disease causing microbes.
SECTION- B
(Short Answer Type Question- I)
9. a) Name a beetle that is used to get rid of aphids. 2
b) Name a bacterium that is used in the form of sprays or sachets to control butterfly
caterpillars.
10. a) Pick the non- curable STDs from the following: 2
Gonorrhoea, syphilis, genital herpes, chlamydiasis, genital warts, trichomoniasis,
AIDS
b) Explain the symptoms of colour blindness.
11. In dogs, black coat colour is dominant over white. What coloured dog will you choose to 2
breed with a given black dog, in order to find its genotype. Explain with the help of cross
with its name.
SECTION- C
(Short Answer Type Question- II)
12. Draw a diagrammatic sketch of biogas plant and explain it and also label its various 3
components given below: Gas Holder, Sludge Chamber, Digester, Dung + water chamber.
13. A pregnant human female was advised to undergo MTP. It was diagnosed that the foetus 3
she was carrying had developed from a zygote having 45 chromosomes with only one X
chromosome.
a) Name the technique by which it is concluded.
b) What is this condition called and how does it arise?
c) Why was she advised to undergo MTP?
14. A cross between a normal couple resulted in a son who was haemophilic and a normal 3
daughter. In course of time, when the daughter was married to a normal man, to their
surprise, the grandson was also haemophilic.
a) Represent this cross in the form of a pedigree chart. Give the genotypes of the
daughter and her husband.
b) Write the conclusion you draw of the inheritance pattern of this disease.
15. There was a scientist who made a cross between fruit flies by taking eye’s colour and wing
size as characters, then write the percentage of parental type fruit flies and recombinant
type fruit flies and find the number of fruit flies of the following when he observed 2000 0.5 X2
fruit flies in F2 generation.
a) Parental type fruit flies in F2 generation. 1
b) Recombinant type fruit flies in F2 generation. 1
 SECTION- D
(Case Study Based Question)
Note: You have internal choice only in ‘D’ Option)
16. The following Pedigree chart shows 4
the inheritance of a genetic disorder up
to three generations of a family.
Observe the chart and answer the
questions that follow.

Generation I

Generation II

Generation III 1

a) Is the disease sex inked or autosomal as per the chart? Give reason in support of 1
your answer. 1
b) Is it recessive or a dominant disorder? 1
c) Give any example of this disorder.
d) Give the consequences of that disorder.
OR
Explain aneuploidy.
SECTION- E
(Long Answer Type Question)
17. a) What would happen if a large volume of untreated sewage is discharged into a river? 2
b) In what way anaerobic sludge digestion is important in sewage treatments? 2
c) Explain the term BOD. 1
18. Work out a monohybrid cross upto F2 generation- 5
1. Between two pea plants
2. Between two Antirrhinum plants,
Both plants in both cases having contrasting traits with respect to colour of the flower.
Comment on their pattern of inheritance.