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Endoplasmic Reticulum and Ribosomes

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What are the whip-like appendages that can help most prokaryotic cells move?

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Flagella

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Mitochondria

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Cell membrane

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Ribosomes

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Solution

The correct option is A
Flagella

The little whip-like structures that help prokaryotic cells move are called flagella. The flagella spin around and this helps to move the prokaryotes, like bacteria, along.

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(a) Nuclear membrane, chloroplast, mitochondria, microtubules and pili are absent in prokaryotic cells.
(b) Nuclear membrane, chloroplast, mitochondria, microtubules and pili are present in eukaryotic cells
(c) Ribosomes are 70S in prokaryotic cells and mitochondria. They are 80 S in animal cells.

Q. Assertion :Ribosomes are non-membrane bound organelles found in the prokaryotic cells only. Reason: Ribosomes are present only in the cytoplasm.

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II. In eukaryotic cell, the nuclear membrane, chloroplast, mitochondria, and pili are present.
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(b) Ribosomes
(c) Plastids
(d) Lysosomes

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