What would be the consequences of a deficiency of haemoglobin in our bodies?
Blood has components- Red blood corpuscles, White blood corpuscles, platelets and Plasma. Red blood cells are the most abundant cells in the human body and they contain an oxygen- carrying pigment, the haemoglobin, in their cytoplasm. Haemoglobin is a conjugated protein, consists of globin and contains a non- protein group called heme; hence the name haemoglobin is given. Due to high partial pressure of the oxygen in the lungs, haemoglobin takes up the oxygen molecules and changes up into the bright red colour of the pigment, called Oxyhaemoglobin; and transport oxygen to the blood cells.
The deficiency of haemoglobin in our body affects the oxygen uptake capacity of blood and this can lead to the deficiency of oxygen in the cells. By this deficiency, it leads to the disease anemia. Anemia can be caused by many reasons including loss of oxygen, loss of blood, destruction of red blood cells or failure in formation of blood etc.
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 advantage over an aquatic organism does a terrestrial organism have with regard to obtaining oxygen for respiration?
What processes would you consider essential for maintaining life?
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?
Why is sodium kept immersed in kerosene oil?
Find the focal length of a lens of power – 2.0 D. What type of lens is this?
What determines the rate at which energy is delivered by a current?
A concave lens of focal length 15 cm forms an image 10 cm from the lens. How far is the object placed from the lens? Draw the ray diagram.
Which of the following is a plant hormone?
(a) Insulin
(b) Thyroxin
(c) Oestrogen
(d) Cytokinin.
Give the names of two energy sources that you would consider to be exhaustible. Give reasons for your choices.
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?
What are the two properties of carbon which lead to the huge number of carbon compounds we see around us?
How do Mendel’s experiments show that traits may be dominant or recessive?
Explain the nature of the covalent bond using the bond formation in CH3Cl.