Biology

What is the contrast between verdure, fauna and vegetation? Eichhornia crassipes is called as a colorful species while Rauwolfia serpentina is an endemic species in India. What do these terms extraordinary and endemic allude to?

solution: Greenery is a vegetation happens in a specific locale or time. Fauna is the complete number of creatures found in a specific locale or time Vegetation is a term utilized for plant...

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How would you set up your herbarium sheets? What are the various instruments you convey with you while gathering plants for the arrangement of a herbarium? What data should a saved plant material on the herbarium sheet accommodate taxonomical examinations?

solution: For setting up a herbarium sheet, the paper is cut in the ideal length →say, 29 x 41 cm.) The dried example is taken and mounted on the sheers with the assistance of paste. You might...

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A plant animal categories shows a few morphological varieties because of an altitudinal angle. At the point when developed under comparable states of development, the morphological varieties vanish and every one of the variations have normal morphology. What are these variations called?

solution: These variations are known as the 'ecotypes'. Plants show changes in morphological components because of the altitudinal angle.

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Worldwide Code of Botanical Nomenclature →ICBN) has given a code to order of plants. Give order of units of arrangement botanists follow while grouping plants and notice diverse ‘Additions’ utilized for the units.

solution: The chain of importance continued in plants: Species → Genus → Family → Order → Class →Division → Kingdom Postfixes utilized by botanists are as per the following: Taxon Suffix a) Division...

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Fill in the gaps:
(a) Ascending limb of Henle’s loop is ______ to water whereas the descending limb is _______ to it.

(b) Reabsorption of water from distal parts of the tubules is facilitated by hormone _______.

(c) Dialysis fluid contain all the constituents as in plasma except _______.

(d) A healthy adult human excretes (on an average) _______ gm of urea/day

Let's take a look at each assertion separately.(a) Water is impermeable to the ascending limb of Henle's loop but permeable to the descending limb.An ascending limb, a descending limb, and a hairpin...

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Name the following:
(a) A chordate animal having flame cells as excretory structures

(b) Cortical portions projecting between the medullary pyramids in the human kidney

(c) A loop of capillary running parallel to the Henle’s loop.

Solution: The following are the one word answers- Amphioxus is a chordate animal with flame cells as excretory organs. Some animals have excretory structures called flame cells or...

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Indicate whether the following statements are true or false:
(a) Micturition is carried out by a reflex.

(b) ADH helps in water elimination, making the urine hypotonic.

(c) Protein-free fluid is filtered from blood plasma into the Bowman’s capsule.

(d) Henle’s loop plays an important role in concentrating the urine.

(e) Glucose is actively reabsorbed in the proximal convoluted tubule.

Solution: The following statements are explained as- (a) Micturition is a reflex reaction of passing urine. The stretch receptors in the bladder wall are stimulated by distension, and reflex action...

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In a plant named Opuntia, the stem region is modified into a flattened green structure to carry out the function of leaves (i.e., photosynthesis). Enlist two other examples of such modifications of plant parts for photosynthesis.

Solution:In Australian Acacia, the petiole takes the shape of the leaf and turns green to perform the function of photosynthesis.Asparagus spears continue to grow, flat, green, leaflike...

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Roots obtain oxygen from the air present in the soil for respiration. In the absence or deficiency of O2, root growth is restricted or completely stopped. How do the plants growing in marshlands or swamps obtain their O2 required for root respiration?

Solution:In some plants such as Rhizophora growing in swampy areas, many roots come out of the ground and grow vertically upwards. Such roots, called pneumatophores, help to get oxygen for root...

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Name the stage of cell cycle at which one of the following events occur:
(i) Chromosomes are moved to spindle equator.

(ii) Centromere splits and chromatids separate.

(iii) Pairing between homologous chromosomes takes place.

(iv) Crossing over between homologous chromosomes takes place.

Solution: (i)In Metaphase, chromosomes are transported to the spindle equator. ii) In Anaphase, centrosomes split and chromatids separate. iii) In meiosis, the pairing of homologous chromosomes...

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Differentiate between the following:
(a) Diffusion and Osmosis

(b) Transpiration and Evaporation

(c) Osmotic Pressure and Osmotic Potential

(d) Imbibition and Diffusion

(e) Apoplast and Symplast pathways of movement of water in plants

(f) Guttation and Transpiration

Solution: The diffusion between all the following sets are- a) Diffusion and Osmosis DiffusionOsmosisIt is a form of passive transport in which a chemical moves from an area of higher concentration...

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