(a) Name any two places where it is essential to install electrostatic percipitators. Why is it required to do so?
(b) Mention one limitation of the electrostatic precipitator.
Prior to a sports event blood and urine samples of sports-persons are collected for drug tests.
(a) Why is there a need to conduct such tests/
(b) Name the drugs the authorities usually look for.
(c) Write the generic names of two plants from which these drugs are obtained.
Given below is a list of six micro-organism. State their usefulness to humans.
(a) Nucleopolyhedrovirus
(b) Saccharomyces cervisiae
(c) Monascus purpureus
(d) Trichoderma polysporum
(e) Peniciliu notatum.
(f) Propionibacterium sharmanni
Reproductive and Child Healthcare (RCH) programmes are currently in operation. One of the major tasks of these programmes is to create awareness amongst people about the wide range of reproduction related aspects. As this is important and essential for building a reproductively healthy society.
(a) Providing sex education in schools in one of the ways to meet this goal. Give four points in support of your opinion regarding this statement.
(b) List any two 'indicators' that indicate a reproductively healthy society.
Describe the experiment that helped demonstrate the semi-conservative mode of DNA replication
(a) Explain the post-pollination events leading to seed production in angiosperms.
(b) List the different types of pollination depending upon the source of pollen grains.
(a) Briefly explain the events of fertilisation and implantation in an adult human female.
(b) Comment on the role of placenta as an endocrine gland.
(a) How are the following formed and involved in DNA packaging in a nucleus of a cell?
(b) Differentiate between Euchromatin and Heterochromatin
(a) Why should we conserve biodiversity? How can we do it?
(b) Explain the importance of biodiversity hot-spots and sacred groves.
(a) Represent diagrammatically three kinds of age-pyramids for the human population.
(b) How does an age pyramid for human population at given point of time helps the policy makers in planning for the future.
(a) A population can be composed of individuals of different age groups. Age distribution plot for a given population is given by the age pyramid.
(b) The structure of the age pyramid determines the growth status of the population, that is, whether it is growing, stable or declining. On the basis of the collective information, the policies for the population can be decided. These may emphasis on providing food to the population, development of proper health services and much more.
For example, if the population is growing the policies can be made to increase the food resources to maintain the population.
If the population is declining then the policies can be made to keep a check on the mortality rate of the population.