Class 9 Science - Chapter The Fundamental Unit of Life NCERT Solutions | Why are lysosomes known as suicide bags?

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 is the cell called the structural and functional unit of life?

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

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

How is a prokaryotic cell different from a eukaryotic cell?

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

Where are proteins synthesised inside the cell?

What would happen to the life of a cell if there was no Golgi apparatus?

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?

Why will a sheet of paper fall slower than one that is crumpled into a ball?

Calculate the molar mass of the following substances.

(a) Ethyne, C₂H₂
(b) Sulphur molecule, S₈
(c) Phosphorus molecule, P₄ (Atomic mass of phosphorus = 31)
(d) Hydrochloric acid, HCl
(e) Nitric acid, HNO₃

What are the immunisation programmes available at the nearest health centre in your locality? Which of these diseases are the major health problems in your area?

Write an expression for the kinetic energy of an object.

Name the regions in which parenchyma tissue is present.

In what direction does the buoyant force on an object immersed in a liquid act?

What is loudness of sound? What factors does it depend on?

The following is the distance-time table of an object in motion:
   Time in seconds       Distance in metres
             0                                    0
             1                                    1
             2                                    8
             3                                   27
             4                                   64
             5                                 125
             6                                 216
             7                                 343
(a) What conclusion can you draw about the acceleration? Is it constant, increasing, decreasing, or zero?
(b) What do you infer about the forces acting on the object?

A submarine emits a sonar pulse, which returns from an underwater cliff in 1.02 s. If the speed of sound in salt water is 1531 m/s, how far away is the cliff?

Write an expression for the work done when a force is acting on an object in the direction of its displacement.