You must have read about cells and DNA in your science books. Discuss Richard Ebright’s work in the light of what you have studied. If you get an opportunity to work like Richard Ebright on projects and experiments, which field would you like to work on and why?
We know that by the process of gradual and continuous (successive) changes, living organism have evolved. After variable experiments, scientists have established that genes are known as the segments of DNA. These DNA segments carries the genetic information from generation to generation. Richard ebright worked on these basis. He raised group of butterflies and raised the eggs of female monarch. He studied the various stages like one after other of female monarch. He further studied the cause of a viral disease that killed approx all monarch caterpillars. Next, he tried to find similarities between viceroy butterflies and monarch ones. Study of the insect’s hormone further give a new theory on the life of cells and found the hormones behind butterfly’s full development. Thus, all these experiments led him to form a theory that cells grew from a monarch’s wings. The cell would divide and grow in a normal butterfly by the gradual changes.
How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life?
What experiments and projects does he then undertake?
How can one become a scientist, an economist, a historian... ? Does it simply involve reading many books on the subject? Does it involve observing, thinking and doing experiments?
What lesson does Ebright learn when he does not win anything at a science fair?
How did his mother help him?
What are the qualities that go into the making of a scientist?
Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?
How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
What does Horace Danby like to collect?
How did the invisible man first become visible?
What kind of a person is Mme Loisel — why is she always unhappy?
Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?
Why is Bholi’s father worried about her?
Why was the twentieth century called the ‘Era of the Book’?
Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?
Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?
How would you assess Griffin as a scientist?
Who is Lutkins?
“Horace Danby was good and respectable — but not completely honest”. Why do you think this description is apt for Horace? Why can’t he be categorised as a typical thief?
“Griffin was rather a lawless person.” Comment.
Who is speaking to Horace Danby?
Did you begin to suspect, before the end of the story, that the lady was not the person Horace Danby took her to be? If so, at what point did you realise this, and how?
What curious episode occurs in the study?
How did the invisible man first become visible?
Why does he steal every year?