What processes would you consider essential for maintaining life?
All the living organisms perform various processes during their life for their adaptations and the survival is known as life processes. There are very essential processes that are considered for maintaining their lives like reproduction (all organisms survives for the reproduction), digestion and absorption of food, respiration (for breathing and exchange of gases in the respiratory tract), body fluids and the circulatory system, excretion process, for locomotion and movement, growth processes, neural control and coordination process, chemical coordination and integration process.
Why is diffusion insufficient to meet the oxygen requirements of multi-cellular organisms like humans?
How is the amount of urine produced regulated?
What criteria do we use to decide whether something is alive?
What are the different ways in which glucose is oxidised to provide energy in various organisms?
The breakdown of pyruvate to give carbon dioxide, water and energy takes place in
(a) cytoplasm. (c) chloroplast.
(b) mitochondria. (d) nucleus.
What are the differences between autotrophic nutrition and heterotrophic nutrition?
What are outside raw materials used for by an organism?
What are the components of the transport system in highly organised plants?
What would be the consequences of a deficiency of haemoglobin in our bodies?
What advantage over an aquatic organism does a terrestrial organism have with regard to obtaining oxygen for respiration?
Did Döbereiner’s triads also exist in the columns of Newlands’ Octaves? Compare and find out.
What is a good source of energy?
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?
What is the importance of DNA copying in reproduction?
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?
What is the role of decomposers in the ecosystem?
What is biological magnification? Will the levels of this magnification be different at different levels of the ecosystem?
Which of the following constitute a food-chain?
(a) Grass, wheat and mango
(b) Grass, goat and human
(c) Goat, cow and elephant
(d) Grass, fish and goat
Why does the sky appear dark instead of blue to an astronaut?
Give an example of characteristics being used to determine how close two species are in evolutionary terms.
A concave mirror produces three times magnified (enlarged) real image of an object placed at 10 cm in front of it. Where is the image located?
List the properties of magnetic field lines.
Why does a compass needle get deflected when brought near a bar magnet?
Which gas is usually liberated when an acid reacts with a metal? Illustrate with an example. How will you test for the presence of this gas?
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?