How does chemical coordination occur in plants?
Plants do not have nervous or muscular system for movement or responsiveness like animals have. Plants only shows the growth (by growth hormones like phytohormones) with the attached substratum by giving them appropriate soil moisture, favourable environmental or physiological conditions. Various plant hormones are present for the plant growth like auxin, gibberellin, cytokinin, ethylene or abscisic acid.
Auxin is responsible for the growth of the stem, gibberellins are those growth hormones which enhances the long growth of stem according to the plant in the presence of meristematic cells, cytokinin acts on the cell division part of the plant, ethylene is a gas present in atmosphere and mainly responsible for fruit growth or ripening with root initiation ,And abscisic acid is responsible for seed development, stomatal closing, bud dormancy etc.
Draw the structure of a neuron and explain its function.
Which signals will get disrupted in case of a spinal cord injury?
How does chemical coordination take place in animals?
Compare and contrast nervous and hormonal mechanisms for control and coordination in animals.
Why is the use of iodised salt advisable?
The brain is responsible for
(a) thinking.
(b) regulating the heart beat.
(c) balancing the body.
(d) all of the above.
How do we detect the smell of an agarbatti (incense stick)?
How do auxins promote the growth of a tendril around a support?
How does our body respond when adrenaline is secreted into the blood?
Which part of the brain maintains posture and equilibrium of the body?
Did Döbereiner’s triads also exist in the columns of Newlands’ Octaves? Compare and find out.
What is a good source of energy?
Why is diffusion insufficient to meet the oxygen requirements of multi-cellular organisms like humans?
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 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 advantage over an aquatic organism does a terrestrial organism have with regard to obtaining oxygen for respiration?
Why is the conversion of ethanol to ethanoic acid an oxidation reaction?
What is an homologous series? Explain with an example.
The magnetic field in a given region is uniform. Draw a diagram to represent it.
A positively-charged particle (alpha-particle) projected towards west is deflected towards north by a magnetic field. The direction of magnetic field is
(a) towards south (b) towards east
(c) downward (d) upward
How does the creation of variations in a species promote survival?
Consider a circular loop of wire lying in the plane of the table. Let the current pass through the loop clockwise. Apply the right-hand rule to find out the direction of the magnetic field inside and outside the loop.
Calculate the number of electrons constituting one coulomb of charge.
Give reasons why copper is used to make hot water tanks and not steel (an alloy of iron).
A spherical mirror and a thin spherical lens have each a focal length of –15 cm. The mirror and the lens are likely to be
(a) both concave.
(b) both convex.
(c) the mirror is concave and the lens is convex.
(d) the mirror is convex, but the lens is concave.