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NEW LIGHT INSTITUTE

Important
Shapes
& Sizes
In NCERT
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▪ Pollen grains are generally: Spherical
▪ Nucleolus: Spherical
▪ Centriole: Cylindrical
▪ Mitochondria: Sausage shaped or cylindrical
▪ RBCs: Round & biconcave
▪ Mesophyll Cell: Round & oval
▪ Tracheid: Elongated
▪ Columnar Epithelium: Long & narrow
▪ WBCs: Amoeboid
▪ Nerve cell (longest cell): Long & branched
▪ Henle’s loop: Hairpin bend
▪ Stomach: J-shaped
▪ Spleen & Kidney: Bean shaped
▪ Thymus: Lobed organ
▪ Patella: Cup shaped
▪ Bowman’s capsule: Double walled cup-like structure
▪ Heart: Clenched fist (size)
▪ Oxygen dissociation curve: Sigmoid
▪ Diaphragm: Dome shaped
▪ Smooth muscle: Fusiform
▪ Setae: S-shaped
▪ Intestinal caecae: Conical
▪ Root hair: Thread like
▪ Root cap: Thimble like
▪ Tongue of frog: Bilobed
▪ Nucleus of vegetative cells: Irregular
▪ Generative cell: Spindle shaped
▪ Ommatidia of cockroach: Hexagonal
▪ Anther: Four sided (Tetragonal)
▪ Cotyledon (maize/grass): Shield shaped
▪ Archegonium of bryophytes: Flask shaped
▪ Gills of Molluscs: Feather like
▪ Radula of Molluscs: File like
▪ Chiasmata: X-Shaped
▪ Testis: Oval
▪ Uterus: Inverted pear
▪ Fimbriae & Clitoris: Finger like
▪ Vasa recta & hyoid bone: U-shaped
▪ Duodenum: C-shaped
▪ Verhulst-Pearl logistic growth curve: Sigmoid
▪ Exponential or geometric growth curve: J-shaped
▪ In female cockroach, 7th sternum is: Boat shaped
▪ Antennae & anal styles of cockroach: Thread like
▪ Head of cockroach, scapula and sinus venosus of frog: Triangular

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