What are the necessary conditions for autotrophic nutrition and what are its by-products?
When the living organisms obtain food and utilizes it for the use in various biological activities like growth, maintenance and for the energy need is known as nutrition. Some nutritional elements like amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals.
Autotrophic nutrition: Preparation of organic food from the inorganic material in the organism’s own body is known as autotrophic nutrition also called self nourishing organisms.
There are two modes of autotrophic nutrition:-
Photoautotrophic nutrition is the preparation of organic food from inorganic material by utilizing sun’s energy (photosynthesis process) and on the other hand, chemoautotrophic nutrition or chemosynthesis is the preparation of organic food with the help of chemical reaction energy.
The necessary conditions for autotrophic nutrition are chlorophyll, sunlight, carbon dioxide, water in photoautotrophic nutrition they take carbon dioxide and water from the environment and transform these into the glucose and oxygen by the process of photosynthesis trapped by chlorophyll; and in chemoautotrophic nutrition, some bacteria develops a technique to capture energy released by the oxidation of inorganic chemical substances and make organic food. Eg. Nitrifying bacteria like Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter.
Their by products are glucose and oxygen. And, their by products are represented in the following equation:-
Why is diffusion insufficient to meet the oxygen requirements of multi-cellular organisms like humans?
How is the amount of urine produced regulated?
What are the different ways in which glucose is oxidised to provide energy in various organisms?
What criteria do we use to decide whether something is alive?
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 the components of the transport system in highly organised plants?
What would be the consequences of a deficiency of haemoglobin in our bodies?
What are outside raw materials used for by an organism?
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?
Write word equations and then balanced equations for the reaction taking place when –
(a) dilute sulphuric acid reacts with zinc granules.
(b) dilute hydrochloric acid reacts with magnesium ribbon.
(c) dilute sulphuric acid reacts with aluminium powder.
(d) dilute hydrochloric acid reacts with iron filings.
If a woman is using a copper -T, will it help in protecting her from sexually transmitted diseases?
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?
Imagine that you are sitting in a chamber with your back to one wall. An electron beam, moving horizontally from back wall towards the front wall, is deflected by a strong magnetic field to your right side. What is the direction of magnetic field?
A person needs a lens of power –5.5 dioptres for correcting his distant vision. For correcting his near vision he needs a lens of power +1.5 dioptre. What is the focal length of the lens required for correcting (i) distant vision, and (ii) near vision?
Find out the source of water in your region/locality. Is water from this source available to all people living in that area?
An object 5 cm in length is held 25 cm away from a converging lens of focal length 10 cm. Draw the ray diagram and find the position, size and the nature of the image formed.
What does an electric circuit mean?
Why does the Sun appear reddish early in the morning?
State whether the following statements are true or false.
(a) An electric motor converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
(b) An electric generator works on the principle of electromagnetic induction.
(c) The field at the centre of a long circular coil carrying current will be parallel straight lines.
(d) A wire with a green insulation is usually the live wire of an electric supply.