Functions of liver
(1) It acts as an exocrine gland for the secretion of bile.
(2) It acts as a store house for various substances like glucose, lipids
(3) It plays a protective role by detoxifying substances including drugs and alcohol.
(4) It helps in the removal of unwanted particulate matter from the blood through the mediation of macrophages.
(a) Give the anatomical differences between a dicot leaf and a monocot leaf.
(b) Enlist the functions of mineral elements in the life of a plant. What do you mean by essentiality of an element ?
(c) Write the differences between nastic and tropic responses.
Differentiate between :
(i) Reparative and Restorative regeneration.
(ii) Capacitation and fertilization.
Give one difference between:
(i) Intraspecific struggle and Interspecific struggle.
(ii) Somatogenic variation and Blastogenic variation.
