SENTHL PUBLIC SCHOOL ,Salem

Class
XII

20 -20

Prepared by:
ARIFA SULTHANA.N,M.sc.,M.Phil.
,B.Ed
 Diagram Based Questions in Biology for Class XII 1

1. Reproduction in Organisms
1.1 a) Name the type of asexual
reproduction shown in the figure below.
b) Name any organism where such type
of asexual reproduction takes place.

1.2 a) Study the diagram and label-A.

Which group of fungi does it belong to?

1.3 a) Name the organism where it is found.

b) Label the part A

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1.4 The diagram shows an event in Amoeba.

a) What is the event?
b) Are the two cell in stage 6 identical?
Name any other organism where such type of event
occurs.

http://www.biology-resources.com

1.51.5
Name the plant.

1.6 a) Name the type of propagule ( marked X)

b) Name any other plant propagated by the same way.

http://images.tutorvista.com/content/angiosperm-morphology

1.7 The image shows Chara with reproductive organs. Identify the
organs marked A and B

https://fbcdn-photos-e-a.akamaihd.net

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1.8 The photograph shows TS of a cucumber. Seeds

are visible in the centre. Name the part of the
fruit marked ‘A’.

1.91.9
The image shows potatoes with eyes.
a) What are the eyes?
b) What are the eyes used for?
c) Which part of the plant is the potato?

1.10 1.10

See the photograph carefully and answer

the questions.
a) Write the typical term given to the
bud like structures.
b) Name the plant

http://www.public.asu.edu/~camartin

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1.11 1.11

Both the plants are (chose any one). Define both the terms. Suggest any other terms meaning
the same for them.
a) Monoecious
b) Dioecious

2. Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

2.1 What does the diagram represent?
Label A-D
*Draw any other type of ovule if known to you?

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2.2 This is a part of a floral part of Papaver.

Identify the parts A and B.

2.3 Identify the structure and label A to D.

2.4 The figure shown is a portion of TS of angiosperm anther.

Label the parts A to D.

2.5 a) Study the

diagram and
label A to E.

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2.62.6
This is a photograph of Commelina sp. bearing flowers. What is the
specialty of the flowers borne on this plant?

http://idao.cirad.fr/content/oscar/especes/c/comdi/comdi_04.jpg

2.72.7
Study the diagram and answer the following questions:
a) Which type of cell division occurs in the diagram marked A

b) The two cells formed in B is called

c) In figure marked C, four cells are formed. What are they?
d) What happens to the cells marked C?
e) What is the total process called?

2.8 a) Name the agent of pollination for

these plants
b) Write the characteristics of such
flower.

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2.92.9
a) Identify the silky tassel marked in
arrows.
b) What type of pollination is expected in
this plant?

2.10 Study the diagram and label the parts A to D. Identify this diagram.

2.112.11 The diagram shows LS of a Maize seed. Label A to F.

2.122.12

a) What is common to the three fruits in being called fruit.

b) Name the edible parts of the fruits
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3. Human Reproduction
Label the parts A to D.
3.1 What is the role of the part marked ‘C’?

How many sperms are present in a single ejaculate?

http://img1.mnimgs.com
3.2 The diagram shows LS of human testis.
1. Label A-D.
2. How many lobules are found
in each testis?
3. Trace the path of sperms
through the tubules from seminiferous
tubule to outside the testis.
4. Where are sperms stored
temporarily?
5. Where are leydig cells
located? Mention their function.

3.3 1. This is a part of The Seminiferous tubule

of human testis. Label A-D.
2. What will be the number of
chromosomes in Secondary spermatocyte,
Spermatid?
3. What do the following terms mean:
Spermatogenesis, Spermiogenesis,
Spermiation?

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3.43.4

1. Label the parts A to D

2. How is the tertiary follicle identified?
3. When is Oogenesis initiated?
4. How many primary follicles are present in each ovary during puberty? What happens to the
remaining?

3.53.5

Study the diagram and answer the following questions:

a) On which day the Graafian follicle ruptures to release the ovum? What is it called?
b) When does the level of Progesterone rise?
c) From where is Progesterone secreted?
d) What happens after 28th day of the cycle?
e) In which phase of the menstrual cycle the thickness of the uterine wall is maximum?
f) If pregnancy occurs, will menses continue?
g) What will happen to the levels of Estrogen and progesterone in case of pregnancy?

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3.6 What does the diagram represent? Label A and B

3.7 a) Name the structure.

b) The embryo with 8-32 blastomere is called
c) What is the fate of the trophoblast and inner cell
mass?

5. Reproductive Health
4.1 a) This is a procedure followed in ART. Name the
procedure.
b) Name any other process you can suggest to
couples requiring ART.

http://www.gfmer.ch/Livres/FIV_atlas/images/ph17.jpg

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5. Principles of Inheritance and Variation

5.1 Study the pedigree chart and comment whether it is
a) Autosomal or Sex linked
b) Dominant or recessive

5.2 a) What will be the Phenotype ratio in F2 generation

b) What will be the genotype ratio?
c) T and t are separated during gamete formation. What is it
called?

5.3 http://resources.saylor.org.

Study the table and answer the questions:

a) Name the dominant traits
b) What was the parent genotype if the table
shows F2 generation?
c) What is the F2 phenotype ratio?
Why did you get such type of ratio?

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5.4 With the help of the diagram answer the following

questions:
a) How many alleles are involved in blood
grouping? This is an example of .
b) A person having AB blood group has both
dominant alleles. What is the inheritance type
called?
A man with ‘A ‘blood marries a woman with ‘B’
blood. Can they have a child with ‘O’ blood group?
How?

http://blog.canacad.ac.jp/bio/BiologyIBHL1/files/461410.gif

5.5 The figure shows Symbols used to prepare pedigree charts. What
does the symbols A-D represent?

5.65.6
a) This is a karyotype of a human suffering from
certain chromosomal disorder. Name the disorder.
b) Write the symptoms of the disorder.

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5.7 a) This is a karyotype of a human suffering from

chromosomal disorder. Name the disorder.
b) What is the cause of this disorder?
c) Write the symptoms.
d) By which name is this syndrome also known? Why?

http://dsasdonline.org

5.8 a) Name the syndrome

b) What is the cause of this disorder
c) How many chromosomes (autosome and sex
chromosome) do the patient have?

http://medicaltreasure.com

5.9 a) When chromosomes are arranged in this

fashion, it is called a .
b) Write the sex of the person whose
chromosomes are shown here.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com

5.10 a) The slide shows a human blood smear. What is the

patient suffering from? (refer to arrows)
b) Is the disease sex linked?
c) Explain the genetic cause of this disease?
d) What is the probability of children being affected
by the disease when both the parents are
heterozygotes of this gene?

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6.Molecular Basis of Inheritance

6.1 This is a diagram of a polynucleotide. What does A and B represent? How are nucleotides linked?

6.2 1. Label A and B

2. What is the composition of B
3. What is the length of the DNA wrapped?
4. What is this structure called?

6.3 a) Identify this picture.

b) When such structures can be observed?
c) What are the dark round spots seen in the picture?

6.4 Who performed this

experiment? What
was the objective?
What was the
conclusion after this
experiment? Write
the results of the
experiment A-D.

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6.5 a) Who performed this experiment?

b) What was proved by this experiment?

http://www.mun.cabiologyscarrexpt.gif

6.6 a) What was the objective of

this experiment?
b) Who performed it?
c) How was the DNA separated into
different layers?
d) Name any other scientist who had
performed experiment to prove the
same.

6.7 What does this diagram

represent? Label A-D

6.8 Study the diagram and

Elaborate what it explains.

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6.9 a) What does the diagram represent?

b) Can you mention any other model
proposed for the same?

6.10 a) Mention the ‘Nonsense codons’.

b) Which codon initiates translation? Does it
have any other function?
c) Genetic code is degenerate. Take help of this
table to explain it.
d) If any mRNA is as written as below then how
many Amino acid will the polypeptide contain?
5’ AUGCAGGGUUCAAAAUAGGAUUCCGGACUA
3’

http://www.benntool.com

6.11 6.11
What does the structure represent? What Is it’s (model) called?
What is the other one? Label A and B.

6.12 Name the three events A-C shown

in this diagram.

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6.13 a) What is A doing?

b) Label B-D
c) What would happen if A was
not present?

6.14 The diagram shows steps in DNA

fingerprinting. Some of the steps are
unlabeled. Label the steps 3, 5,7,10.

6.15 a) What is shown in this diagram?

b) Label A and B.
c) Place Primer (s) in the diagram
d) How is the process different in
prokaryote and eukaryotes?

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6. Evolution
7.1 a) Label A and B
b) Who performed this experiment
c) What did he want to prove?

7.2 a) What does this picture depict?

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7.3 What similarity do you find among the four

organisms so far as their forelimbs are
concerned? Comment upon it.

7.4 a) This picture shows Adaptive radiation of

marsupials of Australia.
What does it mean?
b) Cite any other example of adaptive
radiation.

7.5 This is Darwin’s observation in the Galapagos

island. What did he observe?

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7.67.6
The diagram shows types of Natural
Selection. Study the diagram and
write the types 1 to 3.

7.7 Study the diagram and comment upon the concept of evolution

7.87.8
Study and explain this diagram

http://cdn.yourarticlelibrary.com

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-

7.97.9
What conclusion can you draw from this
diagram?

http://gabrielarogers.blogspot.in

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7.10 What is shown in the picture?

Write technical term for this
event.

http://gabrielarogers.blogspot.in

8. Human Health and Disease

8.1 Name the disease and the causal organism.

8.2 What does the carton represent? Label A and B.

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8.3 a) Identify the plant

b) Name the drug obtained from the seeds of
this flower. What is it commonly called?
c) How is it obtained?

http://www.richardayres.net/garden
8.4 This is a common garden flower and also found
growing wild. This plant is associated with drugs
related matter. What is it?

http://organic-gardening.site74.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/
8.5 The diagram shows the life cycle of the
pathogen causing a human disease.
a) Name the pathogen,
Disease and vector.
b) Label the stages 1 to
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8.6 a) This is a photograph of a common plant

abused for drug. Name the plant.
b) Which part of this plant is used as drugs?
c) What are the different forms of drugs
obtained from this plant?

9. Strategies for Improvement in Food Production

9.1 Identify this animal. How was it developed?

http://www.interestingfunfacts.com/files/2012/04/mules.gif

10. Microbes in Human Welfare

10.1 a) Why do you find big holes in the piece of cheese
shown in the diagram?
b) Name the type of cheese.

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10.2 a) What does the diagram represent?

b) Explain in brief the process going on.

http://analyzemycareer.com/Careers/ooh/images/p30-to-p31/p304-1-jpg.jpg

10.3 This is a diagram of a Gobar gas plant. Label A to D.

11. Biotechnology: Principles and Processes

11.1 a) Label A and B
b) When such process/ event is required?

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11.2 The diagram shows a setup for electrophoresis.

a) Why is it needed in experiments in Molecular
Genetics or Biotechnology?
b) Write the principle behind working of this
apparatus.

11.3 This is a diagram of a plasmid.

a) Name the RE required to cut a tetR gene.
b) What will happen if a foreign gene is inserted into the
R
tet locus?

11.4 a) Name the enzymes used to isolate DNA by breaking the cells of fungus,
plant and bacteria.
b) How is DNA isolated in the laboratory?

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11.5 Name the instrument. Label A to D.

11.6 11.6

What is this instrument used for. Explain the principle.

12. Biotechnology and its Applications

12.1 a) Explain how Insulin is produced.
b) What was the problem initially felt while insulin was
produced using rDNA technology.
c) How was the problem solved?

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12.2 Study the diagram properly and

answer the questions.
a) What is this type of treatment
called?
b) Name the other methods used
for treatment.
c) What is the limitation of this
treatment?

http://www.vialattea.net/spaw/image/biologia/SCID.gif

13. Organisms and Populations

Introduction of goats in Galapagos Islands caused extinction
13.1 of this animal. Name this animal

13.2 This is an example of predation.

a) If tigers / carnivores stop eating animals, herbivores
will be saved. Comment upon the statement.
b) If they don’t stop eating animals, a day will come when
there will be no herbivores. Justify.

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13.3 How do these animals survive in such cold waters?

http://www.pre-tend

13.4 a) Identify the plant.

b) Why cattle avoids browsing this plant?
Name any two such chemical produced by plants for its protection but
commercially used by human.http://www.ngkenya.com/photos

13.5 Can the animal easily be spotted?

a) If no, Why?
b) Give technical term to this phenomenon.
Why animals do such?

http://wonderopolis.org/wp-content/uploads

13.6 This plant was introduced in Australia in 1920s and

later became invasive spreading over millions of
hectares of rangeland.
a) Why it spread so fast?
b) How was it controlled?
Name this plant.
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13.7 This butterfly is highly distasteful to its predators (birds).

a) Name the butterfly
b) Why is it distasteful?
How did it develop such characteristics?
http://www.hcn.org/issues/46.5

13.8 a) What type of interaction do you find

here?
b) Define the type of interaction.
c) Cite any other example.

http://cdn.ipernity.com/121/82/90/12168290.ab8b3464.640.jpg?r2

13.9 1
3 It is an observation made by Mac Arthur.
a) What was the observation?
.
b) Give technical term to it?
9
c) Why do birds behave in this way?

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/biological-communities-and-interaction-

13.10 This is a picture of a Kangaroo rat living in North

American desert.
a) How does it survive there?
b) Write any 4 features developed in plants for
survival in deserts.
http://www.cbc.ca/morningedition

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13.11 The diagram shows Biome distribution

with respect to annual temperature and
precipitation. Label A and B.
Modified from:

http://www.quia.com/files/quia/users/lmcgee/ecology/climograph.gif

13.121
3 What is sexual deceit? How does it apply to this flower?
.
1
2

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/orchids

13.13 a) What do you find in the picture?

b) Mutualists should co-evolve. Why?
Why do you call them mutualists?

13.14 a) A plant growing on another plant causing no

harm is called
b) This type of interaction is called
Give term to the interaction where one is not
benefitted and other is in loss.
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13.15 a) What specific term can you propose to explain

egg laying relationship between a crow and a cuckoo
(koel)?
b) Is it a parasitic relationship? Why?

http://www.indianmirror.com/wildlife/birds/images/cuckoo-nesting.jpg

13.16 Interaction between Clown fish and Sea

anemone is called Commensalism. Who is
benefitted in this association and how?

http://learnaboutsymbiosis.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/8/4/28842393/1148777_orig.jpg

13.17 In this picture a Female mosquito is biting a

man and drawing blood. Is it parasitism?
Justify.

http://uanews.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_image_large_600px_w/public/story-
images/AedesAegyptiMosquitoBite1.jpg

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14. Ecosystem
14.1
On the basis of amount of energy
transferred what does this picture
represent? Draw an ecological pyramid
based on this diagram. Name it.

http://images.tutorvista.com/content/ecosystem/progressive-energy-loss.jpeg

14.2 a) What is the technical term for succession in a pond /

water body?
b) Label the stages A – D
c) What is Secondary Succession?

14.3
a) Name any other man made ecosystem.
b) What are the aspects you should consider to term any
ecosystem to be self-sustainable.?

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14.4

Study the diagram and describe in brief the

process with special reference to points
marked a-d.

14.5 What is shown in

this diagram? Explain
in brief.

http://www.biologydiscussion.com/wp

14.6 The diagram shows a section of a pond

where certain events are shown to occur.
How can you say that this ecosyatem can
function as an unit?

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14.7 This is a simplified model of Phosphorus

cycle in a terrestrial ecosystem. Label A to
D.

15. Biodiversity and Conservation

15.1 When this catfish was introduced into
Indian rivers, it posed a threat to Indian
catfish. Name the fish. Give the specific term
for such event.

http://www.aquaportail.com/aquabdd/photos

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15.2 a) Identify the plant and write the scientific

name.
What was the result of introduction of this plant?

15.3 Match the animals with their names

A B C D
Hints:
Dodo/ Stellars Sea Cow / Quagga / Thylacine/

15.4 Study the graph and answer the questions.

a) Name a scientist who studied species richness
in the South American jungles (as in your text book).
b) Complete the equations A and B
c) How does the value of Z differ? Give example.

15.5 a) What does the diagram represent?

b) Explain the effect.

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15.6 The figure represents Global Biodiversity of Vertebrates in

proportionate number of species. Identify A to D from the hints
below.
Hints:
Amphibians
Reptiles
Birds
Mammals

16. Environmental Issues

16.1 While studying the purity of the flowing river
water, Mr. Ram drew the graph. Explain the
graph (giving reasons) before and after the
point where sewage was discharged in the
river.

16.2 a) What does this picture represent?

b) Explain the principle of it’s working.

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16.3 What is the use of this apparatus? Explain the process.

16.4 What does the diagram represent? Define the term.

Why does such happen?

http://www.buzzle.com/images/environmental

16.5 Select the correct option:

a) CFC (14%), Methane (20%)
b) CFC (20%), Methane (14%)

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16.6 a) What is shown in this picture?

b) What is the cause?
c) What is the effect on human
beings?

https://sriutami88.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/

16.7 Give a suitable caption for this image. What is the cause
for this situation

16.8 16.8

What is this drive taken by the Government of India?

16.9 How has the Delhi Government reduced such

pollution?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/07/article

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16.10 a) What reminds you seeing this picture?

b) Give a brief history

http://healingearth.ijep.

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