If a woman is using a copper -T, will it help in protecting her from sexually transmitted diseases?
Copper- T cannot help in protecting a woman from sexually transmitted diseases. An Intrauterine device is present which contains copper in female’s body. It is used for the birth control and as a contraceptive method.
Why is variation beneficial to the species but not necessarily for the individual?
Draw a labelled diagram of the longitudinal section of a flower.
What are the functions performed by the testis in human beings?
Why does menstruation occur?
How will an organism be benefited if it reproduces through spores?
Can you think of reasons why more complex organisms cannot give rise to new individuals through regeneration?
Asexual reproduction takes place through budding in
(a) amoeba.
(b) yeast.
(c) plasmodium.
(d) leishmania.
How does the embryo get nourishment inside the mother’s body?
What are the advantages of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction?
What is the importance of DNA copying in reproduction?
Did Döbereiner’s triads also exist in the columns of Newlands’ Octaves? Compare and find out.
What is a good source of energy?
Why is diffusion insufficient to meet the oxygen requirements of multi-cellular organisms like humans?
What are trophic levels? Give an example of a food chain and state the different trophic levels in it.
What changes can you make in your habits to become more environment-friendly?
What is the difference between a reflex action and walking?
If a trait A exists in 10% of a population of an asexually reproducing species and a trait B exists in 60% of the same population, which trait is likely to have arisen earlier?
Why should a magnesium ribbon be cleared before burning in air?
Define the principal focus of a concave mirror.
You have been provided with three test tubes. One of them contains distilled water and the other two contain an acidic solution and a basic solution, respectively. If you are given only red litmus paper, how will you identify the contents of each test tube?
Outline a project which aims to find the dominant coat colour in dogs.
Why does dry HCl gas not change the colour of the dry litmus paper?
Will geographical isolation be a major factor in the speciation of a self-pollinating plant species? Why or why not?
How are the alveoli designed to maximise the exchange of gases?
A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding tall pea plants bearing violet flowers with short pea plants bearing white flowers. The progeny all bore violet flowers, but almost half of them were short. This suggests that the genetic make-up of the tall parent can be depicted as
(a) TTWW
(b) TTww
(c) TtWW
(d) TtWw
What are the methods used by plants to get rid of excretory products?
How can ethanol and ethanoic acid be differentiated on the basis of their physical and chemical properties?
What are amphoteric oxides? Give two examples of amphoteric oxides.
How do we detect the smell of an agarbatti (incense stick)?
On what basis would you classify energy sources as
(a) renewable and non-renewable?
(b) exhaustible and inexhaustible?
Are the options given in (a) and (b) the same?