Question -1

Define a food chain. Design a terrestrial food chain of four trophic levels. If a
pollutant enters at the producer level, the organisms of which trophic level will have
the maximum concentration of the pollutant in their bodies? What is this
phenomenon called?
 Question -2

(a) Budding, fragmentation and regeneration, all are considered as an asexual mode of
reproduction. Why?
(b) With the help of neat diagrams, explain the process of regeneration in Planaria.
 Question -3

What is sexual reproduction? Explain how this mode of reproduction gives rise to
more viable variations than asexual reproduction. How does this affect evolution?
 Question -4

(a) Mention any two components of blood.

(b) Trace the movement of oxygenated blood in the body.
(c) Write the function of valves present in between atria and ventricles.
(d) Write one structural difference between the composition of artery and veins.
 Question -5

(a) Define excretion.

(b) Name the basic filtration unit present in the kidney.
(c) Draw excretory system in human beings and label the following
organs of excretory system which perform the following functions:
(i) forms urine.
(ii) is a long tube which collects urine from kidney.
(iii) Store urine until it is passed out.
 Question -6

(a) Write the function of following parts in human female reproductive

system:
(i) Ovary
(ii) Oviduct
(iii) Uterus
(b) Describe in brief the structure and function of placenta.
 Question -7

Name the process by which an amoeba reproduces. Draw the various stages of its
reproduction in a proper sequence.
 Question -8

(a) What is an ecosystem? List its two main components.

(b) We do not clean ponds or lakes, but an aquarium needs to be cleaned regularly.
Explain.
 Question -9

List four advantages of vegetative propagation.

 Question -10

(a) Name the organ that produces sperms as well as secretes a hormone in human males.
Name the hormone it secretes and writes its functions.
(b) Name the parts of the human female reproductive system where fertilisation occurs.
(c) Explain how the developing embryo gets nourishment inside the mother’s body.
 Question -11

How do Mendel’s experiments show that

(a) Traits may be dominant or recessive?
(b) Inheritance of two traits is independent of each other?
 Question -12

A student while observing an embryo of a gram seed listed various parts of the
embryo as listed below:
Testa, Micropyle, Cotyledon, Tegmen, Plumule, Radicle.
On examining the list the teacher commented that only three parts are correct. Select
these three correct parts:
(a) Cotyledon, Testa, Plumule
(b) Cotyledon, Plumule, Radicle
(c) Cotyledon, Tegmen, Radicle
(d) Cotyledon, Micropyle, Plumule
 Question -13

Our food grains such as wheat and rice, the vegetables and fruits and even meat are
found to contain varying amounts of pesticide residues.” State the reason to explain
how and why it happens?
 Question -14

How does Planaria reproduce? Is this method sexual or asexual?

 Question -15

Mention the total number of chromosomes along with the sex chromosomes that are
present in a human female and a human male. Explain how in sexually producing
organisms the number of chromosomes in the progeny remains the same as that of
the parents.