CONTROL AND COORDINATION

COMPETENCY LEVEL QUESTIONS (HOTS)

1) You go for a visit to your grandmother's house .you see

that she keeps her house beautiful and green with lots of
plants. She has many potted plants inside and outside of
the house. However she complains that the plants kept in
the drawing room are not keeping straight, all the plants
were bending towards one direction.
(A) Why are the plants bending in one direction only?
(B) The hormone involved in this phenomenon is
(a)Auxin (b) Cytokinin (c) Ethylene (d) Abscissic acid
(C)Grandma’s plants are showing
(a) Positive hydrotropism (b) positive phototropism
(c) Negative geotropism (d) chemotropism

2) Many children in a remote mountain village complain of

swollen necks, the number of children with swollen necks
keeps increasing every month ,a villager Tukaram who is
superstitious, thinks that village is cursed by a
devil .Mukesh, another villager who thinks it as a disease
suggests consultation with a doctor .
(A)Do you agree with Tukaram or Mukesh and why?
(B) What is the reason behind the swollen necks of the
young children in the village?
(a) malnutrition (b) lack of iodine in diet ( c) lack of
protein in diet (d) lack of fat in diet
(C) Does the location of their villages have anything to do
with the reason of the disease?
(D)Swollen necks are the symptom of which disease
(a) Diabetes (b) Obesity ( c) Goitre (d) Hypertension
3). (a) Name the hormone secreted by thyroid. What is the
function?
(b) Why is the iodized salt advisable?
4). How does pancreas controls blood glucose level
5). How do auxins promote the growth of a tendril around a
support? Describe in brief.
6). On touching a hot plate, you suddenly withdraw your hand.
Which category of neuron becomes activated first and which
one next?
7). Write one example of plant part
(a) which is positively hydrotropic as well as positively
geotropic? (b) Which part is
positively phototrophic as well as negatively geotropic?
8). Why is abscisic acid is known as a stress hormone?
9). The neck of a person appears to be swollen.
(a) Name the disease the person suffering from
(b) Name the mineral whose deficiency causes this disease
10). Give a reason to explain why
(i) Adrenalin helps in dealing emergency situations
(ii) Secretions of growth hormones should be specific to human
body
11). Why do the endocrine glands directly release their
secretions into the blood?
12). Name the plant hormone which
(i) inhibits growth and causes wilting of leaves
(ii) promotes cell division
13) On entering into the kitchen Anjali smells something
burning and sees smoke, immediately she turns and runs out,
Was her reaction voluntary or involuntary? Why?
14).Ram and Shyam visit a park where they find many mimosa
plants, Ram touches them with his feet and the leaflets close
up, after some time they open up and again close when Shyam
touches them.
Why do the leaflets close when touched?
How do all the leaflets sense stimuli though all are not
touched?
15) Aarushi’s mother kept bananas in polybag and found that
they got spoiled fast, Aarushi asked her mother not to keep
bananas in polybag.
Why should the bananas not be kept in polybag?
Which is the only gaseous phytohormone?