Life Processes

The heart

The heart The heart is a muscular organ as big as our fists. Because oxygen and carbon dioxide have to be transported by the blood, the heart has different chambers to prevent the oxygen-rich blood from mixing with the blood containing carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide-rich blood has to reach the lungs for the carbon …

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What is Blood pressure? What is the normal blood pressure of a human being? What is an instrument to measure Blood Pressure?

Solution Blood pressure Definition The force that blood exerts against the wall of a vessel is called blood pressure. This pressure is much greater in arteries than in veins. The pressure of blood inside the artery during ventricular systole (contraction) is called systolic pressure and pressure in the artery during ventricular diastole (relaxation) is called …

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Q. What are the uses of fermentation?

Solution : Fermentation is a commercially important process. It is following processes:i. Curing of tea leaves, tobacco, etc.ii. Manufacture of vinegar,iii. an industrially important compound, the Creation of yoghurt, pickles, bread, and other bakery and culinary products.iv. Production of alcoholic biofuels and other beverages such as beer, wine, liquors, and ethyl alcohol.v. Tanning of leather.vi …

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Q.(a) State the form in which the following are stored:(i) Unused carbohydrates in plants.(ii) The energy derived from food in humans,(b) Describe the process of nutrition in Amoeba with the help of diagram. (Board Term I, 2016)

Solution : (a) ( i )  Unused carbohydrates are stored in plants as starch, a complex sugar. When energy is required, they are later converted into simple sugars (glucose). (ii) The molecules of the food that are absorbed contain energy in their chemical bonds. Oxidation in the cell releases the bond energy between them. To create …

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Q.(a) What is peristaltic movement? (b) ‘Stomata remain closed in desert plants during daytime’. How do they do photosynthesis? (Board Term I, 2013)

Solution : (a) Peristaltic movement is the relaxing of the gut muscles to move the partially digested food throughout the alimentary canal downward. (b) The stomata of desert plants open at night to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). To stop water loss through transpiration, stomata are closed during the day. To continue photosynthesis during the day, …

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