Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Biology ICSE class 10, Genetics , Absorption by roots, Transpiration and Photosynthesis



1.Fill in the blanks
1.     Water absorbed by surface attraction is called ____________
2.     Inward movement of water in the cell is called ___________
3.     Mineral nutrients required by the plants are absorbed from the soil by _________
4.     The shrinkage of protoplasm is called _________
5.     The solution which has higher concentration of solute than the cell is called _______________.
6.     The bending movement of certain flowers towards the sun is due to ___________
7.     Wood absorbs water by the process of _____________
8.     The  shrinkage of protoplasm takes place when a cell is kept in a _________solution.
9.     __________regulates the opening and closing of stomata.
10.                        Passage of Ions and Minerals from the region of lower concentration to higher concentration is called  _____________
11.                        Root hair is an extension o f ___________
12.                        Due to turgidity gurad cells become more ___________on the outside
13.                        Flaccid and turgid are ___________to each other.
14.                        The shrinkage of protoplasm is called___________
15.                        Phenotype is the observable characteristic which is ___________controlled
16.                        The apparatus used to demonstrate rate of absorption of water by roots is _______
17.                        The plasma membrane of root hairs is ___________
18.                        The pressure controlling the movement of water in and out of the cell is ___________
19.                        In a plasmolysed cell, the gap between cell wall and cell membrane is occupied by ___________.
20.                        Root pressure is caused by ___________
21.                        Active transport is one in which the ions outside the roots is ___________
22.                        The bending movement of certain flowers towards the sun are examples of ___________
23.                        __________pressure in the roots helps them  to push through the hard ground
24.                        Difference in concentration of cells is called___________
25.                        ____________is the  absorption of salts from the region of lower concentration to higher concentration.




A.    Name the following
1.     The tissue which transports starch from leaves to all parts of the plants
2.     A solution whose concentration is greater than the cell sap.
3.     Ground substance present in the chloroplast
4.     Plant with sunken stomata
5.     The phenomenon by which living or dead plant cells absorb water.
6.     Waxy layer on the epidermis of leaf meant to reduce transpiration
7.     The pressure responsible for the movement of water across cortical cells of the roots.
8.     Plant with sunken stomata.
9.     The phenomenon by which living or dead cells absorb water by surface attraction.
10.             Waxy layer on the epidermis of the leaf meant to reduce transpiration.
11.            The principal site in a green leaf for photosynthesis
12.            Two main phases of photosynthesis
13.            The main reaction by which the molecules of water is broken down by means of light.
14.            The main mineral constituent of chlorophyll.
15.            The layer which is present on the upper surface of leaf and helps in photosynthesis.
16.            The chemical form in which food is stored in leucoplast.
17.            The process of formation of ATP molecules during  photosynthesis.
18.            Write the end products of Photolysis.
19.            When leaf plant is kept in dark for long which substance gets removed
20.            Which plastid is found in the leafs of the plant
21.            The organization which suggests quarantine measure to prevent the spread of disease
22.            One combined vaccine given to babies which helps to build immunity against three common diseases.
23.            The process of conversion of ADP to ATP during the first phase of photosynthesis
24.            Name the four nitrogenous base found in a DNA molecule
25.            Vaccine which builds immunity against polio

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