KOTHARI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, NOIDA
GRADE 9 SCIENCE
WORKSHEET: CH 5 FUNDAMENTAL UNIT OF LIFE
Q1) Match the organelles with the correct diagram and description.
Q2) Why do plant cells have an additional covering outside the cell membrane?
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Q3) Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast plant and animal cell.
Q4) Fill in the blanks.
Q5) Match the definition with corresponding level of organisation:
Q6)) Describe four differences between a cell wall and a cell membrane.
CELL WALL CELL MEMBRANE
Q7) Arun makes a model of animal cell.
Name the part of a cell represented by:
the rubber ball ____________________
and the seeds ________________________
Q8) Why are chloroplasts only found in plant cells?
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Q9) Why does the skin of your finger shrink when you wash clothes for a long time?
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Q10) Why is endocytosis found in animals only?
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Q11) A person takes concentrated solution of salt, after sometime, he starts vomiting.
What is the phenomenon responsible for such situation? Explain.
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Q12) Name any cell organelle which is non-membranous.
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Q13) We eat food composed of all the nutrients like carbohydrates, proteins, fats,
vitamins, minerals and water. After digestion, these are absorbed in the form of
glucose, amino acids, fatty acids, glycerol etc. What mechanisms are involved in the
absorption of digested food and water?
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Q14)If you are provided with some vegetables to cook, you generally add salt to the
vegetables during the cooking process. After adding salt, vegetables release water.
What mechanism is responsible for this?
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Q15) If cells of onion peel and RBC are separately kept in hypotonic solution, what
among the following will take place? Explain the reason for your answer.
(a) Both the cells will swell.
(b) RBC will burst easily while cells of onion peel will resist the bursting to some
extent.
(c) a and b both are correct.
(d) RBC and onion peel cells will behave similarly.
Q16) Bacteria do not have chloroplast but some bacteria are photoautotrophic in
nature and perform photosynthesis. Which part of the bacterial cell performs this?
40. Match the following A and B
(A) – (B)
(a) Smooth endoplasmic reticulum – (i) Amoeba
(b) Lysosome – (ii) Nucleus
(c) Nucleoid –(iii) Bacteria
(d) Food vacuoles – (iv) Detoxification
(e) Chromatin material – (v) Suicidal bag and nucleolus
Q17) Write the name of different plant parts in which chromoplast, chloroplast and
leucoplast are present.
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Q18) Name the organelles which show the analogy written as under
(a) Transporting channels of the cell——
(b) Power house of the cell——
(c) Packaging and dispatching unit of the cell——
(d) Digestive bag of the cell——
(e) Storage sacs of the cell——
(f) Kitchen of the cell——
(g) Control room of the cell——
Q19) Draw a plant cell and label the parts which
(a) determines the function and development of the cell
(b) packages materials coming from the endoplasmic reticulum
(c) provides resistance to microbes to withstand hypotonic external media without
bursting
(d) is site for many biochemical reactions necessary to sustain life.
(e) is a fluid contained inside the nucleus