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Potato plastids, which store starch, are known as……..
a) leucoplast               
b) amyloplast
c) chromoplast
d) chloroplast

b

Presence of the nucleus in the cell was reported in 1838 by………
a) Laevonhoeke

b) Robert Hooke
c) Robert Brown      
d) Schleiden and Schwann

c

What is the diameter of a typical nucleus?
a) 10nm          
b) 10µm         
c) 20nm          
d) 20µm

b

Explanation: it is the prominent organelle of eukaryotic cell



Which of the following is the most important organelle of the cell?
a) Golgi apparatus      
b) nucleolus
c) nucleus                  
d) mitochondria

c

Explanation: because it controls all the metabolic activities and has genetic information in the form of chromosomes and DNA



Nucleus contains which of the following part/s?
a) nucleolus                
b) nuclear membrane and nucleoplasm
c) chromosomes         
d) all of these

d

The nuclear envelop of nucleus is …….
a) single membrane    
b) double membrane
c) triple membrane     
d) quadruple membrane

b

Explanation: they separate nucleus from the cytoplasm in eukaryotic



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