What is genetic manipulation? How is it useful in agricultural practices?
Genetic manipulation is a process where the desired genes are isolated from one organism and transferred to the other organism by using the hybridization technique.
For example, let us assume there is a wild plant that produces small fruits. If the gene responsible for a larger fruit size is introduced in this plant, this plant becomes transgenic, and starts producing larger fruits.
Therefore, genetic manipulation is useful in agricultural practices by developing varieties having higher yield, better quality, shorter maturity period and wider adaptability to adverse environment conditions.
How do you differentiate between capture fishing, mariculture and aquaculture?
How do good animal husbandry practices benefit farmers?
Explain any one method of crop production which ensures high yield.
What are the desirable characters of bee varieties suitable for honey production?
How do plants get nutrients?
How are fish obtained?
What are the desirable agronomic characteristics for crop improvements?
What factors may be responsible for losses of grains during storage?
Which method is commonly used for improving cattle breeds and why?
How do biotic and abiotic factors affect crop production?
Which of the following has more inertia: (a) a rubber ball and a stone of the same size? (b) a bicycle and a train? (c) a five-rupees coin and a one-rupee coin?
State the universal law of gravitation.
Which of the following are matter?
Chair, air, love, smell, hate, almonds, thought, cold, cold-drink, smell of perfume.
A force of 7 N acts on an object. The displacement is, say 8 m, in the direction of the force (Fig. 11.3). Let us take it that the force acts on the object through the displacement. What is the work done in this case?
What is meant by a pure substance?
How does the sound produced by a vibrating object in a medium reach your ear?
In a reaction, 5.3 g of sodium carbonate reacted with 6 g of ethanoic acid. The products were 2.2 g of carbon dioxide, 0.9 g water and 8.2 g of sodium observations are in agreement with the law of conservation of mass.
sodium carbonate + ethanoic acid → sodium ethanoate + carbon dioxide + water
What are canal rays?
State any two conditions essential for good health.
How is our atmosphere different from the atmospheres on Venus and Mars?
What are polyatomic ions? Give examples.
What do you think would be the observation if the α-particle scattering experiment is carried out using a foil of a metal other than gold?
Name A,B,C,D,E and F in the following diagram showing change in its state
What type of clothes should we wear in summer?
Explain why some of the leaves may get detached from a tree if we vigorously shake its branch.
Suggest a method to liquefy atmospheric gases.
A hockey ball of mass 200 g travelling at 10 m s-1 is struck by a hockey stick so as to return it along its original path with a velocity at 5 m s-1. Calculate the change of momentum occurred in the motion of the hockey ball by the force applied by the hockey stick.
A truck starts from rest and rolls down a hill with a constant acceleration. It travels a distance of 400 m in 20 s. Find its acceleration. Find the force acting on it if its mass is 7 metric tonnes (Hint: 1 metric tonne = 1000 kg.)
Are the answers to the above questions necessarily the same or different? Why?
Composition of the nuclei of two atomic species X and Y are given as under
X Y
Protons = 6 6
Neutrons = 6 8
Give the mass numbers of X and Y. What is the relation between the two species?