Class 9 Science - Chapter The Fundamental Unit of Life NCERT Solutions | Why is the cell called the structural an

Carry out the following osmosis experiment:

Take four peeled potato halves and scoos each one out to make potato cups. One of these potato cups should be made from a boiled potato. Put each potato cup in a trough containing water. Now,

(a) Keep cup A empty
(b) Put one teaspoon sugar in cup B
(c) Put one teaspoon salt in cup C
(d) Put one teaspoon sugar in the boiled potato cup D.

Keep these for two hours. Then observe the four potato cups and answer the following:

(i) Explain why water gathers in the hollowed portion of B and C.
(ii) Why is potato A necessary for this experiment?
(iii) Explain why water does not gather in the hollowed out portions of A and D.

How does an Amoeba obtain its food?

Fill in the gaps in the following table illustrating differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

Why are lysosomes known as suicide bags?

Where do the lipids and proteins constituting the cell membrane get synthesised?

How is a prokaryotic cell different from a eukaryotic cell?

Make a comparison and write down ways in which plant cells are different from animal cells.

How do substances like CO2 and water move in and out of the cell? Discuss.

Where are proteins synthesised inside the cell?

Who discovered cells, and how?

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?

Name the technique to separate

(i) butter from curd,
(ii) salt from sea-water,
(iii) camphor from salt.

Explain why some of the leaves may get detached from a tree if we vigorously shake its branch.

What is the audible range of the average human ear?

What can you say about the motion of an object if its speed-time graph is a straight line parallel to the time axis?

A farmer moves along the boundary of a square field of side 10 m in 40 s. What will be the magnitude of displacement of the farmer at the end of 2 minutes 20 seconds?

Which of the following is true for displacement?

(a) It cannot be zero.
(b) Its magnitude is greater than the distance travelled by the object.

If one mole of carbon atoms weighs 12 gram, what is the mass (in gram) of 1 atom of carbon?

An echo returned in 3 s. What is the distance of the reflecting surface from the source, given that the speed of sound is 342 m s^-1?

A bus decreases its speed from 80 km h^-1 to 60 km h^-1 in 5 s. Find the acceleration of the bus.

Compare all the proposed models of an atom given in this chapter.