chapter 5 fundamental unit of life important questions
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Q1. Explain the types of Plastids in brief.
Q2. Explain the functions and structure of Golgi bodies.
Q3. What is nucleoid?
Q4. What is the difference between plant cells and animal cells?
Q6. What are suicidal bags (lysosomes)?
Q7. What is the function of chromosomes?
Q8. Name the smallest cell in human body?
Q9. Which is the largest cell in human body?
Q10. Why Plant cells are are more rigid than animal cells?
Q11. Explain the process of osmosis in detail.
Q12. Draw and label diagrams of plant cell and animal cell.
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Who discovered cells and how? (page 59)
Answer- Cell was discovered by an English Botanist, Robert Hooke in 1665. He used self-designed microscope to observe cells in a cork slice back then.
2. Why the cell is called the structural and functional unit of life? (Page 59)
Answer- Cells are called the structural and functional unit of life because all the living organisms are made up of cells and all the functions that take place inside the organisms are performed by cells.
1. How do substances like CO2 and water move in and out of the cell? Discuss. (page-61)
Answer- The substances like CO2and water move in and out of a cell through the process called diffusion from the region of concentrated region to low concentrated one. When the concentration of carbon di-oxide and water is higher in external environment than that inside the cell, CO2and water moves inside the cell. When the concentration outside the cell is low but it is high inside the cell, they move outwards.
2. Why the plasma membrane is called a selectively permeable membrane? (page 61)
Answer- Plasma membrane called a selectively permeable membrane because it regulates the movement of substances from within to outside of the cell. This means that the plasma membrane allows the entry of some substances while preventing the movement of some other substance.
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